“From childhoods hour I have not been

As others were – I have not seen

As others saw – I could not bring

My passions from a common spring

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I lov’d, I lov’d alone…”

From “Alone” by Edgar Allen Poe, 1903.

Discovered via an excerpt of the poem that was quoted in Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg.


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