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
- For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her by William Strode
- The Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- Николай Заболоцкий – Это было давно
- Song of Diego Valdez by Rudyard Kipling
- Imbrium by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Full Moon by Walter de la Mare
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Степанов – Кто хозяин
- You Felons on Trial in Courts. by Walt Whitman
- On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper
- Wayside Flowers by William Allingham
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- Sonnet CV by William Shakespeare
- Константин Батюшков – Мщение
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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).
