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...quotation for this feeling. (I have learned over the past months, as have my roommates, that there is an apposite Byron quotation for most emotions and events.) One night in February 1817, in the midst of the Carnival in Venice, Byron staggered back to his room and wrote a poem for his friend Thomas Moore: “So we’ll go no more a-roving/ So late into the night,/ Though the heart be still as loving,/ And the moon be still as bright.// For the sword outwears its sheath,/ And the soul wears out the breast...
...confidently presented a poem that she wrote and memorized for an upcoming pageant...
SABRINA Audrey Hepburn is a love poem from head to toe. She's wooed by Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, right, neither of whom deserve her. But then, what...
...abort it, as with the white Fletcher and the Asian Hayakawa in Daughter of the Dragon and with Loder in Java Head. Decades after her death, the poet John Lau wrote a verse titled "No One Ever Tried to Kiss Anna May Wong." That's not quite true; the poem's title should be "Everyone Tried to Kiss Anna May Wong But Hardly Anyone...
...disheartening for a senior preparing to leave college. For all of its faults, Harvard has been a refuge from the world at large. Standing in the cold Wednesday night, looking up at the stars over the dormered roofs of Winthrop House, my heart ached with the loveliness of the poem and of the night, and with the pain of leaving...