A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
Ah, the cool silence of the shaded hours,
The scent and colour of the jungle flowers!
Thou art one of the jungle flowers, strange and fierce and fair,
Palest amber, perfect lines, and scented with champa flower.
Lie back and frame thy face in the gloom of thy loosened hair;
Sweet thou art and loved–ay, loved–for an hour.
But thought flies far, ah, far, to another breast,
Whose whiteness breaks to the rose of a twin pink flower,
Where wind the azure veins that my lips caressed
When Fate was gentle to me for a too-brief hour.
There is my spirit’s home and my soul’s abode,
The rest are only inns on the traveller’s road.
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- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Beast and Man in India by Rudyard Kipling
- Far Within Us #1 by Vasko Popa
- Zion by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Столп
- Василий Жуковский – Библия
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- Вера Павлова – Перед дальней дорогой
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External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Argus poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- An Essay On Criticism poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- An Essay on Man: Epistle II poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Wibble Wobble poem – Alexander E Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- Why?
- Where Are You?
- Terrible Ted poem – Alexander E. Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- Tell Me
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Alexander E. Musset
- Our Soul’s Gestation
- Intruder
- Inside/Outside The Window
- Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
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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.