The Azure Sea of an alien tongue
The Azure Sea of an alien tongue Lures the perpetual orphan in me Me who had never been happy or young Always suppressed and never free One who is always betrayed and abused One who’s been abandoned, alone One, never loved, and one, always used I have so aged but alas never grown Never […]
The Essay on Liberty by Abraham Cowley
OF SOLITUDE. “Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solis,” is now become a very vulgar saying. Every man and almost every boy for these seventeen hundred years has had it in his mouth. But it was at first spoken by the excellent Scipio, who was without question a most worthy, most happy, and the greatest of all […]