A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
When first I loved, I gave my very soul
Utterly unreserved to Love’s control,
But Love deceived me, wrenched my youth away
And made the gold of life for ever grey.
Long I lived lonely, yet I tried in vain
With any other Joy to stifle pain;
There _is_ no other joy, I learned to know,
And so returned to Love, as long ago.
Yet I, this little while ere I go hence,
Love very lightly now, in self-defence.
A few random poems:
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Objector by William Stafford
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- Damon The Mower poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Blown from the west by Yosa Buson
- Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer by Robert Burns
- An Argument by Vachel Lindsay
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
- Triolets by Sara Teasdale
- At The End Of The Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Степанов – Как живете? Что жуете?
- Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him by Robert Burns
- The Convert
- Before you go a little way prospecting by T. Wignesan
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
- the-flash-reverses-time.html
- que-sera-sera.html
- power-of-thought.html
- phantasm.html
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
- old-boy.html
- lost_love_is_never_lost.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- holiday_letter_for_a_poet_gone_to_war.html
- gratitudes_of_a_dozen_roses.html
- every_hour_henceforth.html
- einstein-defining-special-relativity.html
- cell-mate.html
- calling-the-spirits.html
- angel_of_christmas_love_shining_bright.html
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
- a-tempest-in-a-teacup.html
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
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.