At Dawn And Dusk

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Victor Daley In Year : 1913

Book Language: English

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Dreams
Lethe
Love-Laurel (In Memory of Henry Kendall)
A Vision of Youth
Aphrodite
The Rajah's Sapphires
The Cruise of the IN MEMORIAM
In a Wine Cellar
A-Roving
Brunette
Years Ago
Villanelle
The Voice of the Soul
Cares
Ponce De Leon
Death
Life
Christmas in Australia
Questions
The Gods
The Gleaner
Love
Passion Flower
To My Lady
The Hawthorn
Spring Dirge
Her Last Day
Sunset
Years After
"Unto this Last"
The Nightingale
The Two Keys
Lachesis
Symbols
At the Opera
Neæra's Wreath
Camilla
Sixty to Sixteen
Bouquet and Bracelet
Cupid's Funeral
The First of May
A Ghost
Even So
Song — "What Shall a Man Remember?"
A Sunset Fantasy
Poppies
Amaranth
The Little People
A King in Exile
Tamerlane
The Dead Child
In Memory of an Actress
The River Maiden
A Picture
Sea-Gifts
Day and Night
The Poet Care
Voices
The Ascetic
The Serpent's Legacy
His Soul
The Dream of Margaret
The Martyr
His Mate
The Old Wife and the New
A Christmas Eve
Night

Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocket was nearly empty. The sunshine and freedom of Australia delighted him, and, in careless, vagabond fashion he enjoyed the fleeting pleasures of the day with little thought of the morrow. A good companion, " a fellow of infinite jest," life to him was a gallant spectacle, which he loved to look at and did not take seriously. Worldly success never tempted him, for he was a Bohemian by birth; but he was also descendant of a bardic sept, and he wanted to be a poet. So he wrote verses charged with the melancholy regret of the Celt for vanished glories and the beauty of remote things, dainty opalescent lyrics with hints of fairy music, witty and ironic verse on passing events, and, occasionally, prose sketches. When the pressure of hard realities brought sorrow into his life he wrote more gaily and vigorously than ever. For twenty years or more he charmed a large number of readers. In this thinly-peopled continent the makers of verse are numerous, and though Daley never appealed to so large an audience as the ballad writers, he was the writer best beloved of the writing clan. - Summary by Summary from Wine and Roses