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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CASE OF THOMAS MORE, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA
First Line: Slowly, my lords, go slowly. In this man
Last Line: This profits you? Use prudence, my lords; not pity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia
Subject(s): More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535)
First Line: Slowly, my lords, go slowly. In this man
Last Line: This profits you? Use prudence, my lords; not pity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia
Subject(s): More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535)
Slowly, my lords, go slowly. In this man:
Still stand your sires, stubborn, at Runnymede;
Blood speaks at Canterbury; across a span
Of a thousand years brothers of Alcuin and Bede
Wield wisdom's words; and England signs the sky
At Salisbury in a Norman syllable meant --
By sons of Saxons -- still to ratify
The contract Saint Augustine brought to Kent.
Not that this man is good, friend to the poor,
Defender of the freedoms of the City,
Consider now. But do not now abjure
England. Do not lightly silence the witty
And noble word England speaks. You are sure
This profits you? Use prudence, my lords; not pity.
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