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Betwixt Two Seas
Poems and Ballads (Written at Constantinople and Therapia). By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb]
Fane, Violet (1843-1905)
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BETWIXT TWO SEAS
A DESERTED PALACE
A DESERTED VILLAGE
CHILDHOOD
AN ANCIENT ASIATIC HORSE-SHOE
AT THE “TOURBE” OF ROXALANA
JUDAS TREE AND HAWTHORN
A LOVE CHARM
“FOR ONE MAN'S PLEASURE”
“KING, BY THE GRACE OF GOD”
TOLD TO THE DOCTOR
IN AN ARABA
ON THE MARMORA
ON THE BOSPHORUS
WINTER IN ARMENIA
1895
IN A GARDEN
NEVER THE TIME
ACCIDENT
TOLD BY A GIPSY
AT PARTING
THE DYING PACK-HORSE
A CHINESE STORY
THE “ISOLATION” OF ENGLAND
“ONLY A DOG!”
THE MIDDLE PLACE
A PICTURE
IN EXILE
EXPERIENCE
GHOSTS
?
A TURKISH JAY'S FEATHER
NOW
TO AN ASCETIC
WHAT SOME SAY TO THEMSELVES
A TRANSPLANTED SNOWDROP
FROM THIS WHITE HOUSE
THE LESSON
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IN EXILE
Oh
, rooks that look like English rooks,
And whirl against the grey!
Oh, skies that look like English skies,
Two thousand miles away!
Oh, eyes that look on rooks and skies,
Why do ye fill with tears?
Oh, mysteries, and memories,
And changes of the years!
Betwixt Two Seas