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
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочие столицы, крестьяне окраины… (Роста №89)
- The Usurpation
- Eclogue:–A Bit O’ Sly Coorten by William Barnes
- Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us by William Ernest Henley
- Lines written on a Bank-note by Robert Burns
- The Mountain Tomb by William Butler Yeats
- Morning Poem #6 by Wanda Phipps
- Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
- Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant
- Supernatural Songs by William Butler Yeats
- A Florilegium poem – Alfred Austin
- Burns’s Statue At Irvine poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Сологуб – В норе темно и мглисто
- Гавриил Державин – Подражание псалму (Терпел я, уповал на Бога)
- The Long Hill by Sara Teasdale
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).
