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Adela Florence Nicolson
English
Poet
About the author
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Adela Florence Nicolson,
English
Poet
#Open
#Name
#Memory
#Sea
#Ocean
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson,
English
Poet
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Adela Florence Nicolson,
English
Poet
#Love
#Thought
#Men
#Fight
#Quality
#Sin
#Skin
#Gods
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Adela Florence Nicolson,
English
Poet
#Virtue
#Desire
#Devotion
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Adela Florence Nicolson,
English
Poet
#Now
#Lies