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 ...
Laurence Hope Poems on Soul (21 Poems)
Oh, Unforgotten And Only Lover (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, unforgotten and only lover, Many years have swept us apart,But none of the long dividing seasons Slay your memory in my ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Song Of The Colours: By Taj Mahomed (Laurence Hope Poems)
_Rose-colour_Rose Pink am I, the colour gleams and glows In many a flower; her lips, those tender doorsBy which, in time ...
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 ...
“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, ...
Adoration (Laurence Hope Poems)
Who does not feel desire unending To solace through his daily strife,With some mysterious Mental Blending, The hungry loneliness of life?Until, by ...
Hira-Singh’s Farewell To Burmah (Laurence Hope Poems)
On the wooden deck of the wooden Junk, silent, alone, we lie,With silver foam about the bow, and a silver ...
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 ...
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 ...
Written In Cananore (Laurence Hope Poems)
IWho was it held that Love was soothing or sweet?Mine is a painful fire, at its whitest heat.Who said that ...
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 ...
Deserted Gipsy’s Song: Hillside Camp (Laurence Hope Poems)
She is glad to receive your turquoise ring, Dear and dark-eyed Lover of mine!I, to have given you everything: Beauty maddens the ...
My Desire (Laurence Hope Poems)
Fate has given me many a gift To which men most aspire,Lovely, precious and costly things, But not my heart's desire.Many a ...
To Aziz: Song Of Mahomed Akram (Laurence Hope Poems)
Your beauty puts a barb into my soul, Strive as I will it never lets me go.My love has passed the ...
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 ...
Dedication (Laurence Hope Poems)
I, who of lighter love wrote many a verse,Made public never words inspired by thee,Lest strangers' lips should carelessly rehearseThings ...
Song Of Khan Zada (Laurence Hope Poems)
As one may sip a Stranger's BowlYou gave yourself but not your soul.I wonder, now that time has passed,Where you ...