A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
Nearer and nearer cometh the car
Where the Golden Goddess towers,
Sweeter and sweeter grows the air
From a thousand trampled flowers.
We two rest in the Temple shade
Safe from the pilgrim flood,
This path of the Gods in olden days
Ran royally red with blood.
Louder and louder and louder yet
Throbs the sorrowful drum–
That is the tortured world’s despair,
Never a moment dumb.
Shriller and shriller shriek the flutes,
Nature’s passionate need–
Paler and paler grow my lips,
And still thou bid’st them bleed.
Deeper and deeper and deeper still,
Never a pause for pain–
Darker and darker falls the night
That golden torches stain.
Closer, ah! closer, and still more close,
Till thy soul reach my soul–
Further, further, out on the tide
From the shores of self-control.
Glowing, glowing, to whitest heat,
Thy feverish passions burn,
Fiercer and fiercer, cruelly fierce,
To thee my senses yearn.
Fainter and fainter runs my blood
With desperate fight for breath–
This, my Beloved, thou sayest is Love,
Or I should have deemed it Death!
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External links
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Poems in English
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
- Анатолий Жигулин – Коломенское
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
- Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
- Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
- Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
- Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
- Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
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Violet Nicolson ( 1865 – 1904); otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author. She committed suicide and is buried in Madras, now Chennai, India.