Word: poem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Poem" in the Bowdoin Orient is one of the best college productions that we have ever seen. Real wit and real poetry are shown in no common degree...
...Yale Courant has blossomed out in a most gorgeous, patent, back-action poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...
...execution of the poem entitled Mutation, in the Union College Spectator, is better than the average. We learn that Union College has decided on garnet for its color. There will now be no reason why they should not retain their magenta...
...that although he could not claim to be either father or wet-nurse of the Magenta, he nevertheless considered that he had done something to bring it into existence by pointing out in the Williams Review the field for a new paper at Harvard. He concluded by reading a poem which appeared some time ago in the Advocate, and which described himself as the editor of the Review in terms not quite complimentary...
...this little poem make her swear...