Verses by Violet Jacob
Verses by Violet Jacob is a collection of lyric poetry written in the early 20th century. The book moves between intimate love songs, ballads, nature pieces, and travel lyrics, likely focusing on themes of love, loss, memory, and the haunting beauty of places from Scotland to Egypt and India. The poems range from quiet meditations on time, death, and the soul to vivid narrative ballads and pastoral scenes. Jacob writes of moonlit
gardens, cypress and kirk, harvest fields and winter hush, the lure of wandering and the ache of return. Midway, she turns outward: Egyptian river nights, Theban tombs, and Indian landscapes of mango-topes, monsoon heat, poppy-fields, mosques, and graveyards, where calls to prayer and temple gongs frame reflections on fate and faith. She includes tender verses for children and songs of sailors, ploughmen, lovers, and the bereaved. Throughout, recurring images of light and shadow, music and birds, thresholds and roads braid a mood that moves from longing to quiet consolation, uniting personal feeling with the vastness of place and time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946 |
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| 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 |
| Release Date | Mar 4, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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