Lex Christianorum

Although I can at least confine Your vanity and mine To stating timidly A timid similarity, We shall boast anyway: Like love I say. ...

If therefore thinking it absurd To identify Law with some other word, Unlike so many men I cannot say Law is again, No more than they can we...

If we, dear, [i] know we know no more Than they about the Law, If I no more than you Know what we should and should not do Except that all ...

And always the soft idiot softly Me. The "soft idiot" who advocates the "softly" Law of Me, or selflaw, is clearly not a...

And always the loud angry crowd, Very angry and very loud, Law is We, This is the answer of the social contractists, the Rousseaus of this w...

Others say, others say Law is no more, Law has gone away. The Anarchists claim there is no more law. Auden has no patience for the anarchist...

Others say, Law is our State; Like so many of his generation, Auden was deeply affected by the rise of the Fascist political philosophy, eve...

Others say, Law is our Fate; This short stanza refers to those who predicate law on materialistic philosophies of a deterministic or fatali...

Yet law-abiding scholars write: Law is neither wrong nor right, Law is only crimes Punished by places and by times, Law is the clothes men w...

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose, Speaking clearly and most severely, Law is as I’ve told you before, Law is as you know I supp...

Law, says the priest with a priestly look, Expounding to an unpriestly people, Law is the words in my priestly book, Law is my pulpit and my...

The grandchildren put out a treble tongue, Law is the senses of the young. The grandfather—symbol of the wisdom of the old or of the past—is...

Law is the wisdom of the old, The impotent grandfathers feebly scold; These “impotent grandfathers” are reactionaries who base the law on th...

Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day. The first myth of Law, which is not Aud...

Pace Holmes, that brilliant ideologue and jurist, and his influential Path of the Law which spurned all forms of mystery in Law, [i] there...

While we wait on the remaining articles relating to Ecstasis and Telos and Levering's book (I do have to practice law), I'll post W...

"The Hidden Law" by W. H. Auden The Hidden Law does not deny Our laws of probability, But takes the atom and the star And human b...