Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaks of "jewels which had drunk of fire," or of the "dusty caravan," or again, "an old man, on whose brow the knots of pain were loosened now." No small charm is lent the rhythmic flow of the lines by the melodious oriental names used here and there. The poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical lines that fill the columns of college magazines. Mr. Bruce's success in this narrative style ought to encourage others to follow on this path which is bordered by flowers quite as delicate, if not as gorgeous...
...happy note rings through "In April," a poem graceful in form as it is charming in thought. It reminds one of Horace's Solvitur acris hiems, regenerate with the intensity and the subjective spirit of modern poetry...
...make it utterly meaningless. The poetry in this number is good. "Flowers." the translation from Paul Bourget, is well rendered, and gains in effectiveness by being put into blank verse. In ' O Tempora," a pretty idea, well expressed, is hurt by faulty metre. A second strong poem, of deeper thought, is burdened with the pedantic and heavy title "Address." The fourth poem is a clever bit, announced as coming all the way from Laselle...
...March number of "Outing" is one of the best we have seen for some time. The continued articles on the Apache war and Thomas Stevens "Around the World on a Bicycle" are rather more interesting than usual. The last-named article is followed by a poem to Thomas Stevens. "A Night with the Scotch Herring Fishers" follows, and the rest of the number is made up of short anecdotes, interspersed with one or two poems, of which the "Toboggan" is the best. The last article, "Form in Rowing," though very short, is well worth reading, and may suggest something which...
...January number of the "Quarterly" opens with an artotype of the five living founders of the society, and the first article is an exhaustive account of the foundation of the Greek letter societies by D. B. King. A poem by Edward Wells, entitled "Athene," follows and then the account of the Fortieth convention, held at Washington, January 5th and 6th, completes the main part of the number. The last-named article is interesting and instructive. Editorials, reviews and lists of new initiates to the Greek letter clubs close the number...