Song of the Parao (Camping-ground) (Laurence Hope Poems)
Heart, my heart, thou hast found thy home! From gloom and sorrow thou hast come forth,Thou who wast foolish, and sought ...
Laurence Hope Poems on Pain (28 Poems)
Listen, Beloved (Laurence Hope Poems)
Listen, Beloved, the Casurinas quiver, Each tassel prays the wind to set it free,Hark to the frantic sobbing of the river, Wild ...
The Lute Player of Casa Blanca (Laurence Hope Poems)
No others sing as you have sung Oh, Well Beloved of me!So glad you are, so lithe and young, As joyous as ...
There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
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! (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
Fate Knows No Tears (Laurence Hope Poems)
Just as the dawn of Love was breaking Across the weary world of grey,Just as my life once more was waking As ...
Protest: By Zahir-u-Din (Laurence Hope Poems)
Alas! alas! this wasted NightWith all its Jasmin-scented air,Its thousand stars, serenely bright!I lie alone, and long for you,Long for ...
“Lost Delight” (Laurence Hope Poems)
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
Yasin Khan (Laurence Hope Poems)
Ay, thou has found thy kingdom, Yasin Khan, Thy fathers' pomp and power are thine, at last.No more the rugged roads ...
Early Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
Who says I wrong thee, my half-opened rose?Little he knows of thee or me, or love.--I am so tender of ...
Lallji My Desire (Laurence Hope Poems)
"This is no time for saying 'no'" Were thy last words to me,And yet my lips refused the kiss They might have ...
This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar (Laurence Hope Poems)
I hate this City, seated on the Plain, The clang and clamour of the hot Bazar,Knowing, amid the pauses of my ...
The Rice-boat (Laurence Hope Poems)
I slept upon the Rice-boat That, reef protected, layAt anchor, where the palm-trees Infringe upon the bay.The windless air was heavy With cinnamon ...
The Bride (Laurence Hope Poems)
Beat on the Tom-toms, and scatter the flowers, Jasmin, Hibiscus, vermillion and white,This is the day, and the Hour of Hours, Bring ...
“Surface Rights” (Laurence Hope Poems)
Drifting, drifting down the River, Tawny current and foam-flecked tide,Sorrowful songs of lonely boatmen, Mournful forests on either side.Thine are the outcrops' ...
The Window Overlooking The Harbour (Laurence Hope Poems)
Sad is the Evening: all the level sand Lies left and lonely, while the restless sea,Tired of the green caresses of ...
Famine Song (Laurence Hope Poems)
Death and Famine on every side And never a sign of rain,The bones of those who have starved and died Unburied upon ...
Kotri, By The River (Laurence Hope Poems)
At Kotri, by the river, when the evening's sun is low,The waving palm trees quiver, the golden waters glow,The shining ...
Lalila, To The Ferengi Lover (Laurence Hope Poems)
Why above others was I so blessed And honoured? to be chosen oneTo hold you, sleeping, against my breast, As now I ...
Reverie: Zahir-u-Din (Laurence Hope Poems)
Alone, I wait, till her twilight gate The Night slips quietly through,With shadow and gloom, and purple bloom, Flung over the Zenith ...
The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks (Laurence Hope Poems)
This man has taken my Husband's life And laid my Brethren low,No sister indeed, were I, no wife, To pardon and let ...
Prayer (Laurence Hope Poems)
You are all that is lovely and light, Aziza whom I adore,And, waking, after the night, I am weary with dreams of ...
Syed Amir (Laurence Hope Poems)
Syed Amir is dead, and his numerous foesAre hushed in a breathless awe of amazed relief.The hearts of his friends ...
The Singer (Laurence Hope Poems)
The singer only sang the Joy of Life, For all too well, alas! the singer knewHow hard the daily toil, how ...
Farewell (Laurence Hope Poems)
Farewell, Aziz, it was not mine to fold you Against my heart for any length of days.I had no loveliness, alas, ...
Song Of Faiz Ulla (Laurence Hope Poems)
Just at the time when Jasmins bloom, most sweetly in the summer weather,Lost in the scented Jungle gloom, one sultry ...
“The Rice was under Water” (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Rice was under water, and the land was scourged with rain,The nights were desolation, and the day was born ...
Verse By Taj Mahomed (Laurence Hope Poems)
When first I loved, I gave my very soulUtterly unreserved to Love's control,But Love deceived me, wrenched my youth awayAnd ...