The Lament Of Yasmini, The Dancing-Girl (Laurence Hope Poems)
Ah, what hast thou done with that Lover of mine? The Lover who only cared for thee?Mine for a handful of ...
Ah, what hast thou done with that Lover of mine? The Lover who only cared for thee?Mine for a handful of ...
This was the tale Sher Afzul told to me, While the spent camels bubbled on their knees,And ruddy camp-fires twinkled through ...
The tropic day's redundant charms Cool twilight soothes away,The sun slips down behind the palms And leaves the landscape grey. I want to ...
Since, Oh, Beloved, you are not even faithful To me, who loved you so, for one short night,For one brief space ...
_Rose-colour_Rose Pink am I, the colour gleams and glows In many a flower; her lips, those tender doorsBy which, in time ...
The listless Palm-trees catch the breeze above The pile-built huts that edge the salt Lagoon,There is no Breeze to cool the ...
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
Oh, come, Beloved, before my beauty fades, Pity the sorrow of my loneliness.I am a Rosebush that the Cypress shades, No sunbeams ...
I arise and go down to the River, and currents that come from the sea,Still fresh with the salt of ...
Love me a little, Lord, or let me go,I am so weary walking to and froThrough all your lonely halls ...
"And when the Summer Heat is great, And every hour intense, The Moghra, with its subtle flowers, Intoxicates the sense."The Coco palms stood ...
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
Had I been young I could have claimed to fold thee For many days against my eager breast;But, as things are, ...
I hate this City, seated on the Plain, The clang and clamour of the hot Bazar,Knowing, amid the pauses of my ...
They lay the slender body down With all its wealth of wetted hair,Only a daughter of the town, But very young and ...
I am waiting in the desert, looking out towards the sunset,And counting every moment till we meet.I am waiting by ...
At Kotri, by the river, when the evening's sun is low,The waving palm trees quiver, the golden waters glow,The shining ...
Love, let me thank you for this! Now we have drifted apart,Wandered away from the sea,-- For the fresh touch of your ...
You will be mine; those lightly dancing feet, Falling as softly on the careless streetAs the wind-loosened petals of a flower, Will ...
Beauty, the Gift of Gifts, I give to thee. Pleasure and love shall spring around thy feetAs through the lake the ...
How I loved you in your sleep,With the starlight on your hair!The touch of your lips was sweet,Aziza whom I ...
"The Atlas summits were veiled in purple gloom, But a golden moon above rose clear and free.The cactus thicket was ruddy ...
She was fair as a Passion-flower, (But little of love he knew.)Her lucent eyes were like amber wine, And her eyelids stained ...
Ah, the cool silence of the shaded hours,The scent and colour of the jungle flowers!Thou art one of the jungle ...
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