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:
- Омар Хайям – Имей друзей поменьше, не расширяй их круг
- Street Circus poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
- Sonnet Iv
- The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats
- Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic by Robert Burns
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- Dawn by Yosa Buson
- I’ve Got a Golden Ticket by Roald Dahl
- Николай Огарев – Тебе я счастья не давал довольно
- Ольга Берггольц – Заметь, заметь, Как легчает сердце
- On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму XIV
- Николай Глазков – Поэтоград
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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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.