A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
The scarlet flower, with never a sister leaf,
Stemless, springs from the edge of the Cactus-thorn:
Thus from the ragged wounds of desperate grief
A beautiful Thought, perfect and pure, is born.

A few random poems:
- Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
- A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by Robert Herrick
- Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman
- What The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Уже из-за снежных заносов прекратилось… (РОСТА №774)
- The Pet-Lamb by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
- An Old Man’s Thought of School. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ecclefechan:
- Bubblin’ Up by Shel Silverstein
- Юрий Коринец – Не кажется ли вам
- Владимир Костров – Поток ушедших лет
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton:
- Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems
- As I Ponder’d in Silence. by Walt Whitman
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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.