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:
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive:
- Юрий Галансков – Рванулось пламя из ствола
- French Revolution, The (excerpt) by William Blake
- Алексей Толстой – Ты жертва жизненных тревог
- My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- To Aphrodite by Sappho
- Clemente’s Images by Robert Creeley
- Robert Burns: Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin:
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Это вовсе не френч-канкан
- A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Степанов – Мышь и кошка
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.