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
- To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
- Recollection
- Extract From The Conclusion Of A Poem Composed In Anticipation Of Leaving School by William Wordsworth
- Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary by Robert Burns
- Алексей Плещеев – Молчание
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
- Robert Burns: The Parting Kiss:
- Elm by Sylvia Plath
- Villion’s Ballade Of Good Counsel, To His Friends Of Evil Life poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Федор Сологуб – Знаю знанием последним
- The Columbian Exchange Beginning With Spanish Colonization
- My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Бундур – Всё живёт
- Carol of Words. by Walt Whitman
- The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
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).
