Laurence Hope

Adela Florence Nicolson

About Adela Florence Nicolson

Adela Florence Nicolson was an english poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. Here are below some of her most famous and best poems.
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Laurence Hope was among the most popular romantic poets of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Adela Florence Nicolson Poems




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