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:
- Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms
- Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь
- Владимир Высоцкий – За окном только вьюга, смотри
- In The Train by Sara Teasdale
- Brothers poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Love is Immortal poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
- Федор Тютчев – Как дымный столп светлеет в вышине
- A Sleepless Night poem – Alfred Austin
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope
- Nearly A Valediction by Marilyn Hacker
- A Wife A-Praïs’d by William Barnes
- The Voice by Shel Silverstein
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заколдованный месяц
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.