Word: poem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with "mast"; nor can an adjective conclude one line, while the noun it qualifies begins the next, as in the opening of the second stanza. In Mr. Biddle's "On the Bridge" it is probably a printer's error that gives "eye" as a rhyme to "skies." The little poem is not without a gentle charm, heightened by some felicities of expression especially in the closing lines...
Dean Briggs, the last speaker of the evening, recited an original poem composed for the occasion. The following is a copy of the poem...
...Brook's poem, "Half-Sight," haffles the understanding of the reviewer. The title seems appropriate. H. Hagedorn's "The Confession" is a remarkably well sustained poem, considering the difficulty of the subject. It rises...
...places to real pathos; at times, however, the writer is not equal to the tragic situation. E. E. Hunt's little poem, "With a Gift of Shakespeare's Sonnets," is decidedly above the average of undergraduate poetry, while A. W. Murdock's "Hymn to Life" is conventional in subject matter and sometimes obscure in language. J. H. Wheelock's "Sea-Poems" contain some good passages, but there is too much self-consciousness in the poems...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, consisting of $100 and a silver medal, awarded annually for the best poem on a subject chosen by a committee of the Department of English, will this year be given for a poem on one of the following subjects: "New England," "The West," "The South," and "The Philippines...