Lyrical Poems of Laurence Hope - audio readings by Walter Rufus Eagles

The Net of Memory [0:38]
Kashmiri Song ["Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar"] [0:47]
Among the Rice Fields [1:09]

[works in progress. Expected completion after Labor Day, 2004]:

My paramour was loneliness
To Aziz: Song of Mohammed Ahram
[Untitled]
Men should be judged
Au Salon
Illusion
To Aziz
Ashore
Among the Sand Hills
Dedication to Malcolm Nicolson

Here is an interesting site for this poet -- click HERE.

No one, with any certainty, can sort out the truth from the legend of this remarkable English poet, who was married to a British India Service officer many years her senior. He died of heart failure, supposedly, on discovering that she had been unfaithful to him with an Indian prince. She took her own life shortly after her husband's death. These tales have become the stuff of romantic legend, but in truth no one knows The Truth - W.R.E.