Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helen Bevington often does no better. What makes her one of the pleasantest poetasters around, and Nineteen Million Elephants one of the year's happier books of light verse, is the wise, warm humor of an occasional poem. Some of them are bookish little pieces, with a humor as quiet and decorous as low laughter in a library. Example...
Last Sunday evening Van Fleet laid a wreath on the unknown warrior's tomb in Athens. Standing at military salute, he recited a poem he had written as a last tribute to the Greek soldier...
Kagawa expressed his feeling about his homeland in a poem printed in the current issue of the Christian Century. Excerpts...
...Protestant, most likely an Episcopalian. He drinks moderately, plays golf enthusiastically and votes Republican. The class of '34 said that Gone With the Wind and War and Peace are its favorite novels; the class of '40 voted for War and Peace and Gone With the Wind. Favorite poem of both: Kipling's if (perennial favorite of Princeton seniors...
When Poet Robert Browning stumbled across a devotional poem entitled A Song to David, by one Christopher Smart (1722-1771), he was both awed and delighted. Poet Smart's Song was a haunting combination of the lyrical and the intellectual, clothed in words that threw fresh lights and colors upon many a common thing...