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
- Robert Burns: Caledonia -A Ballad :
- Вера Полозкова – Губы плавя в такой ухмылке
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
- Ольга Берггольц – Я говорю
- Grace before and after Meat by Robert Burns
- Atavism by William Stafford
- Олег Григорьев – Если где-то кому-то плачется
- Nomenclature
- Power Of Thought
- Life of Ms Anonymous by Raj Arumugam
- The Daguerreotype by William Vaughn Moody
- MOURNING by Satish Verma
- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- The Turnstile by William Barnes
- Virginibus Puerisque
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).