“ A man must partly give up being a manWith women-folk. ”
Robert Frost, Home Burial (1914). copy citation
| Author | Robert Frost |
|---|---|
| Source | Home Burial |
| Topic | women |
| Date | 1914 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "North of Boston" |
| Note | |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North_of_Boston/Home_Burial |
Context
“Her fingers moved the latch for all reply.
“My words are nearly always an offence.
I don’t know how to speak of anything
So as to please you. But I might be taught
I should suppose. I can’t say I see how.
A man must partly give up being a man
With women-folk. We could have some arrangement
By which I’d bind myself to keep hands off
Anything special you’re a-mind to name.
Though I don’t like such things ’twixt those that love.
Two that don’t love can’t live together without them.”
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