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
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Приворот
- The Fish by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Заболоцкий – Новый быт
- Steeds of Autumn by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Николай Карамзин – Две песни
- Наум Коржавин – О Господи! Как я хочу умереть
- Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Sure Hit Songwriter’s Pen by Shel Silverstein
- paralipomemnon.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk by Rabindranath Tagore
- Who does she think she is…. by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live by William Shakespeare
- To the Right Hon. Lady Anne Coventry by William Somervile
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).
