Verses by Violet Jacob
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Verses by Violet Jacob is a collection of lyric and narrative poems written in the early 20th century. The book ranges across love, nature, memory, death, and travel, often shifting between northern landscapes and the sensuous “East.” Its likely topic is the transience of life and feeling, seen through seasons, journeys, and haunting recollections. The poems move from intimate love songs and moonlit serenades to ballads of fatal passion and revenant lovers,
as in the medieval drama of The Mill-house and the ghostly The Ballad of Hakon. Nature pieces linger over spring light, owls and nightjars, ploughlands, and late-winter hedgerows, while elegies reckon with loss and courage before death (The Soul, Revenant, Winter and Spring, With Military Honours). A strong travel strain contrasts homestead and open road (Beyond the Walls; “Come on, come up, ye rovers”), and the book’s center of gravity widens in the Egyptian and Indian poems: quiet mango-topes at noon, furnace nights before the monsoon, opium fields at sundown, the muezzin’s call, graves beneath banyans, and the distant pull of temples. Scottish pieces (Airlie Kirk, The Lowland Ploughman) and three poems for children add tenderness and homely detail. Throughout, musical cadence, vivid imagery, and a recurring moonlit glamour bind themes of longing, faith, and the inexorable passing of time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | Verses |
| Original Publication | London: William Heinemann, 1905. |
| Credits | Mairi, Shawn Carraher and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry -- Scottish authors |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78110 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-78110-5 |
| Release Date | Mar 4, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 830 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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