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Verses

By Violet Jacob

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Cover: Lake at Oodeypore, India (c. 1893), oil on canvas by Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1903)

Violet Jacob's first book of poems moves from English garden lyrics and ballads to the sights of India, where she lived with her soldier husband. A closing run of Indian poems takes in a mango grove, an opium field, a Mohammedan graveyard and a distant temple.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: To H. M. C
  2. 2: Half-Way
  3. 3: White Magic
  4. 4: Serenade
  5. 5: The Shadow
  6. 6: The Mill-House
  7. 7: ‘I Sleep but My Heart Waketh’
  8. 8: An Immortelle
  9. 9: The Two Queens
  10. 10: The Lost Track
  11. 11: At a Brookside
  12. 12: Revenant
  13. 13: To Aurelia, with a Pearl Necklace
  14. 14: Beyond the Walls
  15. 15: An Echo
  16. 16: A Young Moon
  17. 17: The Soul
  18. 18: The Ballad of Hakon
  19. 19: Ignis Fatuus
  20. 20: The Little Nightjar
  21. 21: Possession
  22. 22: Airlie Kirk
  23. 23: The Flute Player
  24. 24: In Lower Egypt
  25. 25: Winter and Spring
  26. 26: A Tryst
  27. 27: The Call
  28. 28: Time and Space
  29. 29: A Translation
  30. 30: Glamour
  31. 31: Lenore in the Oliveyards
  32. 32: New Year’s Eve
  33. 33: I. the Lilacs
  34. 34: Ii. Dreams
  35. 35: Iii. the Snow Witch
  36. 36: The Valley of the Kings
  37. 37: The Lowland Ploughman
  38. 38: Late February
  39. 39: From a Train-Window
  40. 40: I. in a Mango-Tope
  41. 41: Ii. Night in the Plains
  42. 42: Iii. the Resting-Place
  43. 43: Iv. Evening in the Opium Fields
  44. 44: V. ‘God Is Great’
  45. 45: Vi. a Mahommedan Graveyard
  46. 46: Vii. Cherry-Blossom at Dagshai
  47. 47: Viii. ‘With Military Honours’
  48. 48: Ix. the Distant Temple