A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
The singer only sang the Joy of Life,
For all too well, alas! the singer knew
How hard the daily toil, how keen the strife,
How salt the falling tear; the joys how few.
He who thinks hard soon finds it hard to live,
Learning the Secret Bitterness of Things:
So, leaving thought, the singer strove to give
A level lightness to his lyric strings.
He only sang of Love; its joy and pain,
But each man in his early season loves;
Each finds the old, lost Paradise again,
Unfolding leaves, and roses, nesting doves.
And though that sunlit time flies all too fleetly,
Delightful Days that dance away too soon!
Its early morning freshness lingers sweetly
Throughout life’s grey and tedious afternoon.
And he, whose dreams enshrine her tender eyes,
And she, whose senses wait his waking hand,
Impatient youth, that tired but sleepless lies,
Will read perhaps, and reading, understand.
Oh, roseate lips he would have loved to kiss,
Oh, eager lovers that he never knew!
What should you know of him, or words of his?–
But all the songs he sang were sung for you!
A few random poems:
- Pace of Life by Pierre Reverdy
- By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After by William Wordsworth
- Николай Некрасов – Деревенские новости
- Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
- The Miller’s Daughter poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Chloris in the Snow by William Strode
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- From Death
- The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
- Нина Воронель – Неровен час
- Jacaranda by Norma Martiri
- Makers And Creatures by Vernon Scannell
- Robert Burns: Lines To A Gentleman,: Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of Expense.
- Adoration
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ее ароматом неслышно ветер повеет
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
- To Virgil poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To The Queen poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Tithonus poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Revenge; A Ballad of the Fleet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Progress of Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 6) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 4) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 3) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 2) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 1) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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.