Esse Quam Videri

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Esse Quam Videri by John Hay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 17, 2026. ------ John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary for Abraham Lincoln, he became a diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Hay was also a biographer of L