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
- Annan Water poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Dust by Sara Teasdale
- At The Cenotaph by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton:
- Olney Hymn 53: My Soul Thirsteth For God by William Cowper
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Behold, my love, how green the groves by Robert Burns
- O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet To Sleep poem – John Keats poems
- Jewels by Sara Teasdale
- On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Маяковский – Радуются ли империалисты-победители? (Главполитпросвет №335)
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Hitler, a poem about Hitler
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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).
