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:
- Эмиль Верхарн – Женщина в черном
 - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
 - Ок Мельникова – Моя муза любитель блюза
 - Perseus by Robert Hayden
 - After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
 - Rip van Winkle’s dream by Raj Arumugam
 - A Boy by Sara Teasdale
 - Альфред Теннисон – Леди Клара Вер-де-Вер
 - Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church by Robert Burns
 - Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
 - In the Black Forest poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Robert Burns: Lines To Mr. John Kennedy:
 - Description of Love by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 - Владимир Маяковский – Что сделать, чтоб Всероссийский съезд Советов… (РОСТА №662)
 - Ballad about a stinking flower by Vinko Kalinic
 
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
- Malay Song
 - Malaria
 - Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
 - Love Lightly
 - Lost Delight
 - Listen Beloved
 - Lines By Taj Mahomed
 - Less Than The Dust
 - Lallji My Desire
 - Lalila To The Ferengi Lover
 - Kotri By The River
 - Khristna And His Flute
 - Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside
 - Kashmiri Song
 - Kashmiri Song By Juma
 - In The Early Pearly Morning
 - Illusion
 - I Shall Forget
 - I Arise And Go Down To The River
 - Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah
 
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.