At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley
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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 (3 hr 19 min)
Chapters
Dreams | 1:58 | Read by Evelyn Lehmann |
Lethe | 5:47 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Love-Laurel (In Memory of Henry Kendall) | 5:34 | Read by Evelyn Lehmann |
A Vision of Youth | 2:46 | Read by mleigh |
Aphrodite | 1:56 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Rajah's Sapphires | 5:00 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Cruise of the IN MEMORIAM | 7:40 | Read by KmpltlyMe |
In a Wine Cellar | 4:05 | Read by czandra |
A-Roving | 2:11 | Read by mleigh |
Brunette | 1:32 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
Years Ago | 7:37 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Villanelle | 1:49 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Voice of the Soul | 2:52 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Cares | 1:52 | Read by mleigh |
Ponce De Leon | 2:09 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Death | 1:39 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Life | 1:32 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Christmas in Australia | 1:32 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Questions | 1:39 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Gods | 1:37 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Gleaner | 1:37 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Love | 2:23 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Passion Flower | 1:04 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
To My Lady | 1:14 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Hawthorn | 1:09 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Spring Dirge | 3:10 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Her Last Day | 6:22 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Sunset | 3:54 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Years After | 7:58 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
"Unto this Last" | 1:12 | Read by Jade Leah Pilling |
The Nightingale | 1:57 | Read by Jade Leah Pilling |
The Two Keys | 6:42 | Read by Michele Eaton |
Lachesis | 0:52 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Symbols | 0:54 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
At the Opera | 4:59 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Neæra's Wreath | 1:21 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Camilla | 0:42 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
Sixty to Sixteen | 2:03 | Read by mleigh |
Bouquet and Bracelet | 1:06 | Read by Joan Moy |
Cupid's Funeral | 1:16 | Read by Joan Moy |
The First of May | 2:06 | Read by Joan Moy |
A Ghost | 3:49 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Even So | 3:07 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song — "What Shall a Man Remember?" | 1:09 | Read by mleigh |
A Sunset Fantasy | 4:10 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Poppies | 1:30 | Read by ABVoice |
Amaranth | 2:05 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Little People | 2:31 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
A King in Exile | 1:52 | Read by mleigh |
Tamerlane | 2:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Dead Child | 3:05 | Read by czandra |
In Memory of an Actress | 2:07 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The River Maiden | 8:26 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
A Picture | 1:11 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sea-Gifts | 1:09 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Day and Night | 1:35 | Read by mleigh |
The Poet Care | 1:39 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Voices | 1:08 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Ascetic | 0:35 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Serpent's Legacy | 0:46 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
His Soul | 1:40 | Read by mleigh |
The Dream of Margaret | 11:43 | Read by Andrea Atwood |
The Martyr | 3:39 | Read by Larry Wilson |
His Mate | 6:42 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Old Wife and the New | 3:46 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
A Christmas Eve | 2:52 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Night | 8:21 | Read by Michele Eaton |