Wine and Roses

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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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Memoir
Romance
Anacreon
The Woods of Dandenong
The Soldan's Daughter
The Quest of Brahma
Desire
Sheelah
The Road of Roses
Avatar
Impression
Paudheen's Fairy
Spring Song
The Land of Laissez Faire
Players
Blanchelys
Over The Wine
Bacchanalian
The Old Bohemian
The Poet and the Muse
Adieu, Bohemia!
The Requiter
Titania
The Tryst
The Slain
Message
Woman
Elizabeth
The Woman at the Washtub
Atlas
Freedom and Fate
Isis
The South Wind
The Little House
Earth and Sea
Tamarama Beach
The Muses of Australia
When London Calls
After Sunset
Mavourneen
Anna
The Green Harper
An Old Tune
Pictures
The Lost Muse
The Forest
In A Far Country
In Arcady
The Call of the City
''Aux Pauvres Diables!''
Dies Faustus
Disillusion
The Other Side
Keepsakes
Sorrow Go Down With The Sun!
Remonstrance
Visions of the Rain
The End of the World
Faith
Philosophy
Saint Francis II
I.H.S.
A Vision of Calvary
Gelimer
Forty Year
A New Regime
Hygeia
The Old Men Sit By Me
Ill
The Grey Hour
To My Soul
Finis

"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 from the book "Wine and Roses"