Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary;
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly –
born of the sea supposedly,
at Christmas each, in company,
braids a garland of festivity.
Not always rosemary;
since the flight to Egypt, blooming indifferently.
With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath,
its flowers; white originally;
turned blue. The herb of memory,
imitating the blue robe of Mary,
is not too legendary
to flower both as symbol and as pungency.
Springing from stones beside the sea,
the height of Christ when he was thirty-three,
it feeds on dew and to the bee
“hath a dumb language”; is in reality
a kind of Christmas tree.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Кондратий Рылеев – Оставь меня, Я здесь молю
- Владимир Набоков – Ut pictura poesis
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- Courtship by Mark Strand
- Day’s Rain Is Done poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Виталий Сивяков – Крещенье
- Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
- The Child and the Mariner by William Henry Davies
- Approach Of Winter by William Carlos Williams
- Mates
- Seed Time And Harvest
- Chase, The – Book 1 by William Somervile
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Распутие
- Алексей Толстой – Прогулка с подругой жизни
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
