Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on Thursday evening. The program will include Bach's Branden-burg Concerts No. 4 in g major for violin, two flutes and string orchestra, Mozart, Symphony in C major, No. 41 "Jupiter"; Debussy, Nocturnes; Satire-Gymnopedies (Orchestrated by Debussey); Ravel, "La Valse" and "Choreo graphic Poem...
...poem "Verdun" reads in part: I know a place in Picardy Where the bois is rich with laughter With dead men's bones and live men's groans And bird sounds that come after! . . . O, the birds, O, the birds, Singing in the Bois de La Folie...
...just walk away from the dancing, this way, across the tennis courts. The stars are out, aren't they? Why, I can carry it. Well. The pines look dark and cool there, don't they? Yes, but I think it's more like a poem by Sand-burg: "In the dusk, in the cool tombs." Tombs of what? Oh, tombs of all the summer boys like you, who say so much they don't mean...
...forgot, you're a poet, aren't you? Why don't you write a poem for me about our walking off like this alone and leaving it all? (No, I'd rather just lean against this big rough old tree...
...burden of lifting the average of the present issue above the level of discreditable mediocrity falls entirely upon the efforts of Mr. Walter Edmonds and Mr. B. N. Parker Jr., who, with a short story and a poem respectively, redeem the sheets from the come-on-fellows-and-lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your...