XIV
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Flight
Why—rather than that hand in mine, tho' every pulse would freeze,
I'd sooner fold an icy corpse dead of some foul disease:
Wed him? I will not wed him, let them spurn me from the doors,
And I will wander till I die about the barren moors.