Poems about rubies or legends about rubies/?

Question

Something along the lines of ---ruby red. Where does that come from? Red like blood ? Red like fire? Any authors who write about rubies? Ruby red dress. Ruby goblets. Ruby slippers. anything but Jack Ruby.

Answer 1

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word odem in the verse Exodus 28:17 means "ruby"; it was the stone on the Ephod representing the tribe of Reuben. Modern Hebrew has taken this meaning.
Ruby is also the most commonly named precious stone in the Bible; an example being Proverbs 31: "A virtuous wife is worth more than rubies."
The famous lighted "Red Stars" mounted above Kremlin spires, thought to be giant rubies mined in Siberia, are actually colored glass.
Ruby is the birthstone associated with July.
Ruby is associated with the Sun in vedic astrology.
Ruby symbolizes passionate love.

"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" is a song written by Mel Tillis which was made world famous by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition in 1969. However, it was originally recorded in 1967 by Johnny Darrell, who scored a top 10 country hit with it that spring.

Other singers, Roger Miller and Leonard Nimoy among them, also cut the song, but no one had a major hit with it. However, in 1969, after their success with the hits "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and "But You Know I Love You", Kenny Rogers wanted to take his group more and more into country music.

The song itself is about a disabled war veteran, who is dying and who is begging his lover not to cheat on him. Tillis based the song on a couple who lived near his family in Florida. In real life, the man was wounded in Germany in World War II and sent to recuperate in England. There he married a nurse who took care of him at the hospital. The two of them moved to Florida shortly afterward, but he had periodic return trips to the hospital as problems with his wounds kept flaring up. His wife saw another man as the veteran lay in the hospital. Tillis changed the war to Korean in the song, and departed from the ending that happened in real life - he killed her in a murder-suicide.

"Ruby Tuesday" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966, written by Brian Jones with some bits by Keith Richards concerning lyrics and texture, but credited to Jagger and Richards instead.

The song was a number-one hit in the U.S. and a number three in the UK, and remains a favorite of both fans and casual Rolling Stones listeners.

Answer 2

The only one I know of is "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. He has her picking up rubies by the side of the Ganges. It's a neat poem, though. This guy is trying to seduce this girl by convincing her that time is short. It was written in the mid 1600's but it's kind of funny. You can find it online.

Answer 3

That's interesting.. since my name is also Ruby, I wanna know that, too.