Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Come Forth, My Love!" is perhaps the better of the two poems, and evidences some love of nature on the part of its author. There is a Swinburnian luxuriousness and verboseness about the whole poem, and in the first five lines especially we are impressed by the manifest prevalence of Nature-osculation. The metre of several lines is decidedly faulty...
...poem, by William J. Warburton, Columbia '90, and the oration by W. H. P. Fance, D. D., Brown '80, closed the meeting...
...poetry of the number seems to us to be below the Monthly's usual standard. Of the two poems, "The Answer" is the better. But it is decidedly inferior to what its author has done before and certainly cannot stand comparison with its author's most lately published poem, "Dolarosa," - although the diction is simple and natural and certain lines are very good. "The Builder - Science" has the double fault of extreme vagueness of thought and inaptitude of diction...
...Dolorosa," by William Vaughn Moody '93, marks, we believe, its author's first appearance in the extra-collegiate magazine field. It is, on the whole, the strongest piece of poetical work which Mr. Moody has published and is happily free from the vagueness with which certain of his former poems have been dashed. While there are touches here and there which remind one of Browning, the conception of the poem as a whole shows a thoughtful originality, the simile of the martyr being particularly felicitious. The diction of the poem is admirable throughout and the mere metrical work is flawless...
...poetry of the number is of a high order. Mr. McCulloch's contribution, "Phaeton," is a rhymed tale of the familiar myth. The metre of the poem is admirably adapted to the treatment of this well known story, and, barring a few errors of accentuation, the whole shows poetical strength...