A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
Oh, that my blood were water, thou athirst,
And thou and I in some far Desert land,
How would I shed it gladly, if but first
It touched thy lips, before it reached the sand.
Once,–Ah, the Gods were good to me,–I threw
Myself upon a poison snake, that crept
Where my Beloved–a lesser love we knew
Than this which now consumes me wholly–slept.
But thou; Alas, what can I do for thee?
By Fate, and thine own beauty, set above
The need of all or any aid from me,
Too high for service, as too far for love.
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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
- Эмиль Верхарн – Завершение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Занавески
- Эмиль Верхарн – Законы
- Эмиль Верхарн – Заблуждение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я покидаю сна густую сень
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хвала человеческому телу
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хлебопечение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вперед
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
- Эмиль Верхарн – Восстание
- Эмиль Верхарн – Воскресное утро
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вокруг моего дома
- Sergei Esenin (Serguei Yesenin, Sergueï Essénine) – Sounds of Sorrow
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- Джон Мильтон – По случаю своего двадцатитрехлетия
- Джон Мильтон – О своей слепоте
- Джон Мильтон – О Шекспире
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.