Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good thing out of a stenographic agency, but left it for a temperamental writer. When he finally deserted her, she started another agency. Ida was a rawboned Middle-western farmer's daughter, a hard worker. She married a mean man. When childbirth killed her he wrote a poem to her memory, saying what a good husband he had been. Emanuela was beautiful, but she was afraid of love. Against vigorous opposition, she remained a virgin. Esther married a poetaster: starvation and cold gave her tuberculosis. Bridget was a hellion of an old charwoman in downtown Manhattan. Hers...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...were first to print my poem, The Long Night Ride of William Dawes, and now I am sending an original Indian poem. I am one-eighth Ottawa and the only Indian poet that I know of at the present time. By the Ottawas I am called "Little Crane." They know me as a descendant of their renowned Chief Pontiac. THE INDIAN DRUM Away by the lake hangs an Indian drum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" It always starts booming when the wind gods hum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" Whenever a wreck on the beach...
Poet Jeffers is more than a pessimist; he is a writer of tragedies. The two long poems in this book, Dear Judas and The Loving Shepherdess, are different statements of the same idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says...
Overture to the Ode for St. Cecelia's Day, for strings and oboes, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B minor, for strings and flutes. Rondeau, Sarabande, Bouree I, Bouree II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Badinarie. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from the Symphony number two, in D. by Hadyn: Adagio-Allegro; Menuetto Trio; Allegro spirituoso...