A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
The daylight is dying,
The Flying fox flying,
Amber and amethyst burn in the sky.
See, the sun throws a late,
Lingering, roseate
Kiss to the landscape to bid it good-bye.
The time of our Trysting!
Oh, come, unresisting,
Lovely, expectant, on tentative feet.
Shadow shall cover us,
Roses bend over us,
Making a bride chamber, sacred and sweet.
We know not life’s reason,
The length of its season,
Know not if they know, the great Ones above.
We none of us sought it,
And few could support it,
Were it not gilt with the glamour of love.
But much is forgiven
To Gods who have given,
If but for an hour, the Rapture of Youth.
You do not yet know it,
But Kama shall show it,
Changing your dreams to his Exquisite Truth.
The Fireflies shall light you,
And naught shall afright you,
Nothing shall trouble the Flight of the Hours.
Come, for I wait for you,
Night is too late for you,
Come, while the twilight is closing the flowers.
Every breeze still is,
And, scented with lilies,
Cooled by the twilight, refreshed by the dew,
The garden lies breathless,
Where Kama, the Deathless,
In the hushed starlight, is waiting for you.

A few random poems:
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- Валерий Брюсов – К Бальмонту (Погасни, исчезни)
- Commination
- good bye, my sweet angel by Raj Arumugam
- Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе
- Additions: The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s by Thomas Hardy
- The Flash Reverses Time poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Николай Глазков – Раздумья
- Ольга Седакова – Памяти поэта
- Song-Books of the War by Siegfried Sassoon
- Вероника Тушнова – Яблоки
- Any Lifetime by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Avenue In Savernake Forest by William Lisle Bowles
- Guenevere by Sara Teasdale
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вход воспрещается
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Все люди
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Улетевшим мечтам
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ты холодна
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Туча
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Три вида
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тост
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тайна
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Светлые ночи
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Степь
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Старой знакомке
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сознание
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Современная идиллия
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сослуживцу
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Собачий пир
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть в Мессине
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть
- Владимир Британишский – Чюрлёнис
- Владимир Британишский – Читая Ремарка
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.