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 Thought & Thinking (19 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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
“I Arise and go Down to the River” (Laurence Hope Poems)
I arise and go down to the River, and currents that come from the sea,Still fresh with the salt of ...
Zira: In Captivity (Laurence Hope Poems)
Love me a little, Lord, or let me go,I am so weary walking to and froThrough all your lonely halls ...
“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, ...
The Masters (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, Masters, you who rule the world, Will you not wait with me awhile,When swords are sheathed and sails are furled, And ...
Oh Masters (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, Masters, you who rule the world, Will you not wait with me awhile,When swords are sheathed and sails are furled, And ...
Song Of Jasoda (Laurence Hope Poems)
Had I been young I could have claimed to fold thee For many days against my eager breast;But, as things are, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Illusion (Laurence Hope Poems)
Thinking you had a heart that love could break,A lovely gentle soul that might awake,I held you tenderly for either's ...
Request (Laurence Hope Poems)
Give me your self one hour; I do not crave For any love, or even thought, of me.Come, as a Sultan ...
The Cactus (Laurence Hope Poems)
The scarlet flower, with never a sister leaf, Stemless, springs from the edge of the Cactus-thorn:Thus from the ragged wounds of ...