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 ...
Oh, unforgotten and only lover, Many years have swept us apart,But none of the long dividing seasons Slay your memory in my ...
This was the tale Sher Afzul told to me, While the spent camels bubbled on their knees,And ruddy camp-fires twinkled through ...
Listen, Beloved, the Casurinas quiver, Each tassel prays the wind to set it free,Hark to the frantic sobbing of the river, Wild ...
Since, Oh, Beloved, you are not even faithful To me, who loved you so, for one short night,For one brief space ...
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 ...
Love me a little, Lord, or let me go,I am so weary walking to and froThrough all your lonely halls ...
I hate this City, seated on the Plain, The clang and clamour of the hot Bazar,Knowing, amid the pauses of my ...
Beat on the Tom-toms, and scatter the flowers, Jasmin, Hibiscus, vermillion and white,This is the day, and the Hour of Hours, Bring ...
Oh Amber Eyes, oh Golden Eyes! Oh Eyes so softly gay!Wherein swift fancies fall and rise, Grow dark and fade away.Eyes like ...
Death and Famine on every side And never a sign of rain,The bones of those who have starved and died Unburied upon ...
Beauty, the Gift of Gifts, I give to thee. Pleasure and love shall spring around thy feetAs through the lake the ...
Why above others was I so blessed And honoured? to be chosen oneTo hold you, sleeping, against my breast, As now I ...
Alone, I wait, till her twilight gate The Night slips quietly through,With shadow and gloom, and purple bloom, Flung over the Zenith ...
Oh, straight, white road that runs to meet, Across green fields, the blue green sea,You knew the little weary feet Of my ...
The rice-birds fly so white, so silver white, The velvet rice-flats lie so emerald green,My heart inhales, with sorrowful delight, The sweet ...
As those who eat a Luscious Fruit, sunbaked, Full of sweet juice, with zest, until they findIt finished, and their appetite ...
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