The Comet and Other Verses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Comet and Other Verses, credited to Irving Sydney Dix, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Comet and Other Verses, by Irving Sydney Dix. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Comet and Other Verses
• Author credits: Irving Sydney Dix
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 58:56

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature

Track guide

1. 01 - The Comet — 5:02
2. 02 - Washington — 5:19
3. 03 - The Storm — 3:27
4. 04 - Jim, the Newsboy — 1:54
5. 05 - March Wind Blow — 1:47
6. 06 - The Rime of the Raftmen — 4:39
7. 07 - A Child's Elegy — 3:04
8. 08 - Dreaming of the Delaware — 2:21
9. 09 - Norma — 4:25
10. 10 - Plant a Tree — 2:17
11. 11 - Maid of Shehawken — 2:49
12. 12 - To the Delaware — 3:06
13. 13 - Starlight Lake — 3:16
14. 14 - An Inquiry — 1:09
15. 15 - Twin Lake — 3:03
16. 16 - The Man Who Swears — 3:07
17. 17 - The Glen — 1:52
18. 18 - Hope — 3:10
19. 19 - Lines to Liars — 2:10
20. 20 - Fooling — 1:08

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