by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Ask me no more: the moon may draw the...
Language: English
Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea;
The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape,
With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape;
But O too fond, when have I answer'd thee?
Ask me no more.
Ask me no more: what answer should I give?
I love not hollow cheek or faded eye:
Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die!
Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live;
Ask me no more.
Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd:
I strove against the stream and all in vain;
Let the great river take me to the main.
No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
Ask me no more.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in The Princess, first published 1850 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Ask me no more" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mark Koval (b. 1959), "Ask me no more", first performed 2006 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1842 - 1919), "Ask me no more", published 1874 [ voice, piano, and cello ], London: Stanley Lucas & Weber [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Ask Me No More", op. 116 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Ask me no more" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Larry Strachan (b. 1970), "Ask me no more" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Taffs , "Ask me no more", published 1923, from Album of Five Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Ask me no more" [ voice and piano ], Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "Ask me no more", published 1927 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Songs for High Voice, no. 2, London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
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