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
- death039s_claim.html
- Pandering by Satish Verma
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge
- Bring Us The Light by John Oxenham
- A prayer to the Wind by Thomas Carew
- Владимир Высоцкий – Упрямо я стремлюсь ко дну
- Юлия Друнина – Ты рядом
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dark Glasses. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- The Chambermaid’s Second Song by William Butler Yeats
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- In A Light Time by Philip Levine
- The Season poem – Alfred Austin
- Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling
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).
