Word: poem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Athenaeum held its annual supper at the Parker House last evening, which passed off very enjoyably. Mr. Moore was president of the evening and Mr. Vinton toast-master. The ode by Mr. Morse, the oration by Mr. Tufts, and the poem by Mr. Blodgett, were all highly successful...
...will earnestly hope and devotedly pray that the day itself will not be very warm; that the marshals will be as elegant in their appearance as the combined efforts of art and nature can make them; that the oration will prove all that can possibly be desired; that the poem will be entirely satisfactory; that the spreads will not be overcrowded; that the evening will be fine; and, finally, that the fair creatures who may honor the occasion by their presence, as they gather their tattered trains about them and depart to their several homes when the lanterns begin...
...this respect the Madisonensis is worse than the Student; half of the June 3d number is full of uninteresting and extraneous matter; as to the Round Table it got inspired the other day, and has relieved itself by a poem, an extract from which we insert...
...POEM . . . By CHARLES ALBERT DICKINSON, of Cambridge...
...past ten years, many men who have given evidence of ability to write very good poetry, but we have not yet found one who possessed both the means and the disposing frame of mind to encourage the rising lights in the poetic firmament. At Oxford the prize poem is something which is struggled for, and the successful man is justly admired. That such a prize has been awarded yearly, for many generations, accounts, in some degree certainly, for the rank which the poets of England have taken in the world. Here we look in vain now for those...