A poem by Violet Nicolson, Lawrence Hope, Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865 – 1904)
I am not sure if I knew the truth
What his case or crime might be,
I only know that he pleaded Youth,
A beautiful, golden plea!
Youth, with its sunlit, passionate eyes,
Its roseate velvet skin–
A plea to cancel a thousand lies,
Or a thousand nights of sin.
The men who judged him were old and grey
Their eyes and their senses dim,
He brought the light of a warm Spring day
To the Court-house bare and grim.
Could he plead guilty in a lovelier way?
His judges acquitted him.

A few random poems:
- Before The Game by Vasko Popa
- Free the Holy Land — a poem about Palestine
- Artegal And Elidure by William Wordsworth
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- Song. Murdering Beauty by Thomas Carew
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- Ballade Of The Midnight Forest poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Broomfield Hill poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sexual eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- Beautiful Moroccan by Stanley Wilkin
- Oh, when I was in love with you poem – A. E. Housman
- Carpe Diem by William Shakespeare
- Hope
- The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough
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
- Наум Коржавин – Генерал
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Наум Коржавин – Еж и Заяц
- Наум Коржавин – Есть у тех, кому нету места
- Наум Коржавин – Еще в мальчишеские годы
- Наум Коржавин – Двадцатые годы
- Наум Коржавин – Друзьям
- Наталья Хрущева – Дождик и художник
- Наталья Хрущева – Большой и маленький
- Наталья Хрущева – Бабушка рыцаря
- Наталья Шевченко – Самолёт
- Наталья Шевченко – Прости прости Меня Отец
- Наталья Шевченко – Привилегия
- Наталья Шевченко – Он не в себе
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию, представленную ее императорскому Величеству от их императорских высочеств в Ораниенбауме 1750 года июля 31 дня
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на день восшествия на престол Ее Величества 1753 года
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на день рождения Ее Величества
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись благоверному и Великому князю Александру Невскому
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 5 к статуе Петра Великого
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.