The Comet and Other Verses
Irving Sydney Dix
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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) (0 hr 58 min)
Chapters
| The Comet | 5:02 | Read by Chill28 |
| Washington | 5:19 | Read by Chill28 |
| The Storm | 3:27 | Read by Chill28 |
| Jim, the Newsboy | 1:54 | Read by maryagneskatherine |
| March Wind Blow | 1:47 | Read by Dean McCollaum |
| The Rime of the Raftmen | 4:39 | Read by nbvoices |
| A Child's Elegy | 3:03 | Read by Frances Brown |
| Dreaming of the Delaware | 2:21 | Read by Frances Brown |
| Norma | 4:25 | Read by Frances Brown |
| Plant a Tree | 2:17 | Read by Chill28 |
| Maid of Shehawken | 2:49 | Read by Chill28 |
| To the Delaware | 3:06 | Read by Chill28 |
| Starlight Lake | 3:16 | Read by nbvoices |
| An Inquiry | 1:09 | Read by Halle Kill |
| Twin Lake | 3:03 | Read by Chill28 |
| The Man Who Swears | 3:07 | Read by maryagneskatherine |
| The Glen | 1:52 | Read by Dean McCollaum |
| Hope | 3:10 | Read by Chill28 |
| Lines to Liars | 2:10 | Read by Chill28 |
| Fooling | 1:08 | Read by Halle Kill |