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: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
- A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion by Samuel Coleridge
- Юлия Жадовская – Я все хочу расслушать
- Robert Burns: Caledonia -A Ballad :
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, шахтер!.. (РОСТА №843)
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
- Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- Sorry by Tom Mukasa
- tears.html
- The Gardener LIX: O Woman by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza by Vachel Lindsay
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
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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.