Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern Drama really helps. We long for the "sang-froid of an urster," to quote her "Sonnet From the Brooklynese," which is as perfect a thing of its kind a we have seen. "The Fly in the Ointment" and "Poem for Mother's Day" are superior works; others are not too good. Obviously we all can't be Nashes or Parkers, but there are other drums to be beaten. "I Feel Better Now" is one of them...
...last song which the glee club will render--"War and Washington" expresses better than any other poem of the day, the "Spirit of '76". The tune "British Grnadier" was already a century old; and it is still played by the band of the Grenadier Guards...
...know," he continued glancing at an evening paper lying on his dressing poem table in the Colonial Theatre, "this man Stimson always seems to be frowning at something: first it's France, then Mexico, and now he gets in a long distance frown at Japan. If he keeps on frowning pretty soon his mustache will join forces with his hair and he will enter the Boston Dog Show as an English sheepdog...
...These poems from the pen of a Harvard graduate of 1911, vice president of the Outlook, are full of sincerity, and intensity of feeling. His technique is admirable; the spirit behind the verses is genuine. The title poem "See Prayer", and the opening poem, in addition to the final sonnet sequence are splendidly done. The verses always rise above the ranks of mere competence. Perhaps it is unjust to refer to them in this way. Suffice it to say that here are pleasant poems not destined to immortality...
...recovered, the three agreed that George and Pietro had best go away together. She later returned to Alfred but the glamor was gone. Thereafter Alfred de Musset, when in need of funds, would reopen the wound of his old love, watch the metaphorical blood flow as he penned a poem. Last and most famed of George Sand's lovers was Frederic null Chopin, of whom a friend said: "There was nothing permanent about him except his cough." Granddaughter Aurore found basis for her belief that George Sand lived a relatively virtuous life in the fact that during the last...