Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR MARY STUART, IN CAPTIVITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poet's Biography First Line: Though by wide seas and time we sundered are Last Line: To free from slavery a queen so fair! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Slavery; Time; Mary Stuart; Serfs | ||||||||
THOUGH by wide seas and Time we sundered are, Sweet Queen, the light-flash of that beauteous sun, Your eyes, whose like the whole world holdeth none, Ne'er from my heart can wander long or far. Thou other Queen, that under prison bar Holdest so rare a queen, bid wrath begone And change thy rede. From dawn to evening star The sun sees not so base an action done! Peoples, you shame your birth, sluggards at arms! Your forbears Roland, Renault, Lancelot, Fought with glad hearts for noble ladies' charms, Warded, and saved them. While you, FRENCHMEN, dare Not don your armor! -- nay, have touched it not To free from slavery a queen so fair! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOY IN THE WOODS by CLAUDE MCKAY ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE by E. ETHELBERT MILLER EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER JOHN BROWN'S BODY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET RETURN OF SPRING by PIERRE DE RONSARD |
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