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 Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Emotions in exile by Shailendra Chauhan
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- Grammar by Tony Hoagland
- Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз
- Владимир Набоков – Путь
- Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever:
- A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat : Belonging to the same Laird [not quite so wise as Solomon].
- The Call To Arms In Our Street by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
- Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
- Amabel by Thomas Hardy
- Нина Гаген-Торн – День мой в труде тяжелом
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).
