A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
“The Atlas summits were veiled in purple gloom,
But a golden moon above rose clear and free.
The cactus thicket was ruddy with scarlet bloom
Where, through the silent shadow, he came to me.”
“All my sixteen summers were but for this,
That He should pass, and, pausing, find me fair.
You Stars! bear golden witness! My lips were his;
I would not live till others have fastened there.”
“Oh take me, Death, ere ever the charm shall fade,
Ah, close these eyes, ere ever the dream grow dim.
I welcome thee with rapture, and unafraid,
Even as yesternight I welcomed Him.”
* * * * *
“Not now, Impatient one; it well may be
That ten moons hence I shall return for thee.”
A few random poems:
- Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice by Robert Burns
- The One-Legged Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Meditations In Time Of Civil War by William Butler Yeats
- Омар Хайям – Дай мне влаги хмельной, укрепляющей дух
- My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic
- To A Jilted Lover by Sylvia Plath
- Mirage
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Был бы я благочестьем прославиться рад
- Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet XXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Вращения
- Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вход воспрещается
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Все люди
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Улетевшим мечтам
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ты холодна
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Туча
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Три вида
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тост
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тайна
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Светлые ночи
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Степь
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Старой знакомке
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сознание
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Современная идиллия
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сослуживцу
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Собачий пир
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть в Мессине
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть
- Владимир Британишский – Чюрлёнис
- Владимир Британишский – Читая Ремарка
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works

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.