Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh is a poem written by Agatha Christie. It was published in the book Star Over Bethlehem and other stories.

The poem has fourteen lines in a sonnet-like pattern of an octave and a sextet with a volta between the eighth and ninth line, but the rhyming scheme is irregular and doesn't conform to the established patterns. The octave has a Shakespearean like ababcdcd pattern but the sextet is abcbac.

The picture is that of Mary standing at the cross of Calvary, thinking back to the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh which the magi brought at the birth of her son.