The Poetry Corner

Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)

Poems

Adoration
Afridi Love
Among the Rice Fields
Ashore
Atavism
Back to the Border
Camp Follower's Song, Gomal River
Dedication to Malcolm Nicolson
Deserted Gipsy's Song: Hillside Camp
Disappointment
Early Love
Famine Song
Fancy
Farewell
Fate Knows no Tears
Feroke
Feroza
From Behind the Lattice
Golden Eyes
Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah
His Rubies: Told by Valgovind
I Arise and go Down to the River
I Shall Forget
In the Early, Pearly Morning: Song by Valgovind
Kashmiri Song
Kashmiri Song by Juma
Khan Zada's Song on the Hillside
Khristna and His Flute
Kotri, by the River
Lalila, to the Ferengi Lover
Lallji my Desire
Less Than The Dust
Lines by Taj Mahomed
Listen, Beloved
Lost Delight
Love Lightly
Malaria
Malay Song
Marriage Thoughts: by Morsellin Khan
Memory
Middle-age
My Desire
My Paramour was Loneliness
Nay, not To-night
No Rival Like the Past
Oh, Unforgotten and Only Lover
Ojira, to Her Lover
On Pilgrimage
On the City Wall
Palm Trees by the Sea
Prayer
Protest: By Zahir-u-Din
Reminiscence of Mahomed Akram
Request
Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
Reverie of Ormuz the Persian
Reverie: Zahir-u-Din
Rutland Gate
Sampan Song
Sea Song
Second Song (Three Songs of Zahir-u-Din)
Second Song: The Girl from Baltistan
Sher Afzul
Shivratri (the Night of Shiva)
Song by Gulbaz
Song of Faiz Ulla
Song of Jasoda
Song Of Khan Zada
Song of Ramesram Temple Girl
Song of Taj Mahomed
Song of the Colours: by Taj Mahomed
Song of the Devoted Slave
Song of the Parao (Camping-ground)
Song of the Peri
Starlight
Story by Lalla-ji, the Priest
Story of Lilavanti
Story of Udaipore: Told by Lalla-ji, the Priest
Sunstroke
Surface Rights
The Aloe
The Bride
The Cactus Thicket
The Convert
The Dying Prince
The First Lover
The First Wife
The Garden by the Bridge
The Garden of Kama: Kama the Indian Eros
The Hut
The Jungle Flower
The Lament of Yasmini, the Dancing-Girl
The Masters
The Net of Memory
The Plains
The Rao of Ilore
The Regret of the Ranee in the Hall of Peacocks
The Rice was under Water
The Rice-boat
The Singer
The Teak Forest
The Temple Dancing Girl
The Tom-toms
The Window Overlooking the Harbour
There is no Breeze to Cool the Heat of Love
Third Song, written during Fever (Three Songs of Zahir-u-Din)
This Month the Almonds Bloom at Kandahar
Though in my Firmament thou wilt not shine
Thoughts: Mahomed Akram
Three Songs of Zahir-u-Din
Till I Wake
To M. C. N.
To the Hills!
To The Unattainable
To The Unattainable: Lament Of Mahomed Akram
Two Songs by Sitara, of Kashmir
Unanswered
Unforgotten
Valgovind's Boat Song
Valgovind's Song in the Spring
Vayu the Wind
Verse by Taj Mahomed
Verses
Verses: Faiz Ulla
When Love is Over - Song of Khan Zada
Wings
Written in Cananore
Yasin Khan
Yasmini
Youth
Zira: In Captivity