To a Jasmine (Blank Verse)

                                                             

            1 )       Amid the green slender bunch of leaves

                      Hanging with a shy drooping face

                      Like a pearl of snow with sweet incense

                      With a bounteous white swelling bosom

                      For bees to sip nectar with humming praise.

        2)          Thy elfin beauty adds beauty to beauty with grace

                      Humbly shining through maiden’s curls

                      With tipsy sighs you spy the lovely couples

                      Thrilling their hearts with spontaneous love

                      Like Venus rising from moon-lit silver seas

                      A tiny blossom dropped from heavenly peaks

                      Beauty commingled with love and bliss

                      God whispers gently through thy lovely form

                      Gleaming purity through thy dew-washed face.

        3)          So virtue shines in simple lives though short

                      May all men follow thee and live in peace

                      With simple grace chastened with joy and love

                      Let all our lives be as pure and sweet as thine

                      Thou, virgin of selfless sacrifice divine

                    Shining like a star, Thou, queen of Summer’s domain.

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     1st November, 2017                               Somaseshu Gutala                  

        Note : Venus = Goddess of beauty and love born from sea near the island of Cyprus.

                  

                  Virgin of selfless sacrifice = Mother Mary

              " In small proportions we just beauties see,
            And in short measures life may perfect be."

                                                                     Ben Jonson