Ashore

Violet Nicolson 1865 (Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire) – 1904 (Madras, Madras Province)



Out I came from the dancing-place:
The night-wind met me face to face -
  
A wind off the harbour, cold and keen,
"I know," it whistled, "where thou hast been."
  
A faint voice fell from the stars above -
"Thou? whom we lighted to shrines of Love!"
  
I found when I reached my lonely room
A faint sweet scent in the unlit gloom.
  
And this was the worst of all to bear,
For someone had left while lilac there.
  
The flower you loved, in times that were.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA XX BB CC DD X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 447
Words 95
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

Violet Nicolson

Violet Nicolson (9 April 1865 – 4 October 1904; born as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory)), was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the late 1900s, she became best-selling author. more…

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