Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert is parched in the burning sunAnd the grass is scorched and white.But the sand is passed, and the ...
Laurence Hope Poems on Sadness (33 Poems)
Two Songs By Sitara, Of Kashmir (Laurence Hope Poems)
Beloved! your hair was goldenAs tender tints of sunrise,As corn beside the River In softly varying hues.I loved you for your ...
Sher Afzul (Laurence Hope Poems)
This was the tale Sher Afzul told to me, While the spent camels bubbled on their knees,And ruddy camp-fires twinkled through ...
Three Songs Of Zahir-u-Din (Laurence Hope Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Reverie OfMahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert is parched in the burning sunAnd the grass is scorched and white.But the sand is passed, and the ...
Yasmini (Laurence Hope Poems)
At night, when Passion's ebbing tide Left bare the Sands of Truth,Yasmini, resting by my side, Spoke softly of her youth."And one" ...
His Rubies: Told By Valgovind (Laurence Hope Poems)
Along the hot and endless road, Calm and erect, with haggard eyes,The prisoner bore his fetters' load Beneath the scorching, azure skies.Serene ...
The Garden By The Bridge (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
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 ...
Disappointment (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, come, Beloved, before my beauty fades, Pity the sorrow of my loneliness.I am a Rosebush that the Cypress shades, No sunbeams ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian (Laurence Hope Poems)
Softly the feathery Palm-trees fade in the violet Distance,Faintly the lingering light touches the edge of the sea,Sadly the Music ...
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 ...
Song Of The Peri (Laurence Hope Poems)
Beauty, the Gift of Gifts, I give to thee. Pleasure and love shall spring around thy feetAs through the lake the ...
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 ...
Back To The Border (Laurence Hope Poems)
The tremulous morning is breaking Against the white waste of the sky,And hundreds of birds are awaking In tamarisk bushes hard by.I, ...
Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram (Laurence Hope Poems)
I shall never forget you, never. Never escapeYour memory woven about the beautiful things of life.The sudden Thought of your Face ...
Nay, Not To-night (Laurence Hope Poems)
Nay, not to-night;--the slow, sad rain is falling Sorrowful tears, beneath a grieving sky,Far off a famished jackal, faintly calling, Renders the ...
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, ...
The Cactus Thicket (Laurence Hope Poems)
"The Atlas summits were veiled in purple gloom, But a golden moon above rose clear and free.The cactus thicket was ruddy ...
Unanswered (Laurence Hope Poems)
Something compels me, somewhere. Yet I seeNo clear command in Life's long mystery.Oft have I flung myself beside my horse, To drink ...
Rutland Gate (Laurence Hope Poems)
His back is bent and his lips are blue, Shivering out in the wet:"Here's a florin, my man, for you, Go and ...
The Jungle Flower (Laurence Hope Poems)
Ah, the cool silence of the shaded hours,The scent and colour of the jungle flowers!Thou art one of the jungle ...
Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson (Laurence Hope Poems)
I, who of lighter love wrote many a verse, Made public never words inspired by thee,Lest strangers' lips should carelessly rehearse Things ...
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 ...