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Summary

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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (48)

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