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
- Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew
- Call To Account! by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- My November Guest by Robert Frost
- Николай Глазков – Девятое мая
- The Lilies by Wendell Berry
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- Владимир Корнилов – Слепец
- Liebestod
- Thalidomide by Sylvia Plath
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Yarrow Revisited by William Wordsworth
- Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen by William Shakespeare
- The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale by William Wordsworth
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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).
