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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- All-Accomplished Rover by William Somervile
- To Byron poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet CXI: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare
- Гавриил Державин – К первому соседу
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько я, сколько я видел на свете их
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 5. Sometimes I Hold it half a Sin poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet 10
- The Fall by Satish Verma
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не бывает кораблей без названия
- Comments: A Life Well Lived is Always an Inspiration – My Friend Muniappan Velu of Chennai, India
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Испытание воли
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
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Irony poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Irony poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In a Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hora Stellatrix poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- From One Who Stays poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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.