A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
One evening we sat together
By the river of Pearls at Fez,
Stringing verses and sometimes singing.
My gaze followed the beautiful boy
Who, with a swift and delicate movement,
Flung the wine-cup over his shoulder ;
The ruby drops glittered and fell
Bright in the dying sunshine.
The River of Pearls shone like a sword in the grass,
Not disdaining
The work of turning the waterwheel,
And the sun, reluctant, lingered about the tree-tops
In a golden mist of farewell.
Many the tears that have fallen since,
Many the nights that have passed,
But I remember
The River of Pearls at Fez
And Seomar whom I loved.
A few random poems:
- Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper
- Spanish Guerillas by William Wordsworth
- Effigy Of A Nun by Sara Teasdale
- Love Preparing to Fly poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: On A Suicide:
- Омар Хайям – Лучше впасть в нищету, голодать или красть
- The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
- He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о Пете, толстом ребенке, и о Симе, который тонкий
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Владимир Маяковский – Было с белым много дел… (Главполитпросвет №44)
- Ок Мельникова – Не горим, не светим
- Владимир Маяковский – Не только для того, чтоб тебя накормить… (Главполитпросвет №2)
- Николай Карамзин – Из мелодрамы Петр Великий (Жил был в свете добрый царь)
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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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.