Famous Veronica Poems by Famous Poets

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Jubilate Agno: Fragment C

...f Capivi. The Lord strengthen my reins. 

Let Shimshai rejoice with Stelis Missletoe on Fir. 

Let Joiarib rejoice with Veronica Fluellen or Speedwell. 

Let Tatnai rejoice with the Barbadoes Wild Olive. 

Let Ezra rejoice with the Reed. The Lord Jesus make musick of it. Good Friday 1761. 

Let Josiphiah rejoice with Tower-Mustard. God be gracious to Durham School. 

Let Shether-boznai rejoice with Turnera. End of Lent 1761. No. 5. 

Let Jozadak rejoice with Stephanitis a vin...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher


The General Prologue

...; "gait" is still used in this
sense in some parts of the country.

57. Vernicle: an image of Christ; so called from St Veronica,
who gave the Saviour a napkin to wipe the sweat from His face
as He bore the Cross, and received it back with an impression
of His countenance upon it.

58. Mail: packet, baggage; French, "malle," a trunk.

59. The Bell: apparently another Southwark tavern; Stowe
mentions a "Bull" as being near the Tabard.

60. Cheap: Cheapside, then inhabited by t...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Round

...Light splashed this morning
on the shell-pink anemones
swaying on their tall stems;
down blue-spiked veronica
light flowed in rivulets
over the humps of the honeybees;
this morning I saw light kiss
the silk of the roses
in their second flowering,
my late bloomers
flushed with their brandy.
A curious gladness shook me.
So I have shut the doors of my house,
so I have trudged downstairs to my cell,
so I am sitting in semi-dark
hunched over my desk
with nothing...Read more of this...
by Kunitz, Stanley

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