Adela Florence Nicolson (1865-1904) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Adela married Colonel Malcolm Hassels Nicolson and it was he who introduced her to the food and customs of India. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. Poems in this collection include Dedication to Malcolm Nicolson, The Masters, I Shall Forget, The Lament of Yasmini, the Dancing-Girl, Among the Rice Fields, The Bride, Unanswered, The Net of Memory, The Cactus Thicket, Song of the Peri, The Convert, Ashore, Yasin Khan, and many more