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:
- The Hawthorn Tree by Siegfried Sassoon
- Travel to Infinite Places by Michael Levy
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- Sonnet CXIII by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet To Sleep poem – John Keats poems
- The Pond poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Zitten Out The Wold Year by William Barnes
- Verbal Calisthenics by Sylvia Plath
- In The Forest by Sarojini Naidu
- Sonnet VIII. To My Brothers poem – John Keats poems
- Ок Мельникова – Не горим, не светим
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Ballade Of Cleopatra’s Needle poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Pact poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Новелла Матвеева – Восток, прошедший чрез воображенье
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.