today's poem

[angevin2]

Because evidently I enjoy making my flist depressed.

Tichborne's Elegy
written with his own hand in the Tower before his execution
Chidiock TichborneMy prime of youth is but a frost of cares

Comments

[owlfish]

It's so sad and elegant and mournful.

[elettaria]

He had a womb?

[angevin2]

Well, metaphorically!

Obviously it means "the one he came out of," which probably has sticky implications, but I suppose one is not necessarily going to consider the full ramifications of one's pronoun choices if one is about to be beheaded.

[lnhammer]

BTW, notice that this is written entirely in words of one beat. It's an old, old game.

---L.

[angevin2]

True, but you have to squish "fallen" into one syllable, so it might count (it would certainly count if it were spelled "fall'n")!

[lnhammer]

A slightly dubious ellision, but intended in the original. So I think it scrapes by.

---L.