The Comet and Other Verses
A few years ago, while recovering from an illness, I conceived the idea of writing some reminiscent lines on country life in the Wayne Highlands. And during the interval of a few days I produced some five hundred couplets,—a few good, some bad and many indifferent—and such speed would of necessity invite the indifferent. A portion of these lines were published in 1907. However, I had hoped to revise and republish them, with additions of the same type, at a later date as a souvenir volume of verses for those who spend the summer months among these hills—as well as for the home-fast inhabitants. But in substituting the following collection of verses I hope my judgment will be confirmed by those who chance to read these simple stanzas of one, who—
"Loves not man the less, but Nature more
From those our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal."
(Summary by Irving Sydney Dix)
Genre(s): Nature & Animal Fiction, Poetry
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | The Comet | Chill28 |
00:05:02 |
Play 02 | Washington | Chill28 |
00:05:19 |
Play 03 | The Storm | Chill28 |
00:03:27 |
Play 04 | Jim, the Newsboy | maryagneskatherine |
00:01:54 |
Play 05 | March Wind Blow | Dean McCollaum |
00:01:47 |
Play 06 | The Rime of the Raftmen | nbvoices |
00:04:39 |
Play 07 | A Child's Elegy | Frances Brown |
00:03:03 |
Play 08 | Dreaming of the Delaware | Frances Brown |
00:02:21 |
Play 09 | Norma | Frances Brown |
00:04:25 |
Play 10 | Plant a Tree | Chill28 |
00:02:17 |
Play 11 | Maid of Shehawken | Chill28 |
00:02:49 |
Play 12 | To the Delaware | Chill28 |
00:03:06 |
Play 13 | Starlight Lake | nbvoices |
00:03:16 |
Play 14 | An Inquiry | Halle Kill |
00:01:09 |
Play 15 | Twin Lake | Chill28 |
00:03:03 |
Play 16 | The Man Who Swears | maryagneskatherine |
00:03:07 |
Play 17 | The Glen | Dean McCollaum |
00:01:52 |
Play 18 | Hope | Chill28 |
00:03:10 |
Play 19 | Lines to Liars | Chill28 |
00:02:10 |
Play 20 | Fooling | Halle Kill |
00:01:08 |