Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ideas were expressed by the brilliant authors present. At last the meeting was partially restored to harmony by the serene "apostle of culture," Mr. S. Mark Arnold. "Let us not quarrel," he began; "let us look for sweetness and light; let us - But I will read you a little poem of my own that reminds me of Wordsworth somewhat. Then you will see why I should be protected." And he began, in a voice full of rare melody...
...will deny that very often an article or a poem in a college paper derives additional interest from the reader's acquaintance with the writer; and it is not absolutely necessary that this acquaintance be a personal one. The knowledge that we are reading an author of whose merits we have formed a previous judgment imparts zest, even if that author presents himself to our imagination only as X, Y, or Z. It is, therefore, to be regretted that articles are not more systematically signed with initials real or assumed. A writer should not be either too modest...
...poem followed, and then, with cheers for the various classes and groans for the Faculty, the students dispersed in good order...
...first in a book of selections, and did not suspect that it was written by a student. In a more serious vein is a piece called "Forebodings;" it is full of fine feeling, and called forth an answer from one of the professors. "The Old Professor" is a pathetic poem, and is well worth reading. "The Bells of Venice" is a fine piece. I will quote the last stanza...
...order to do justice to the author of the ode "To Fancy," I will take my last quotation from a very pretty poem of his entitled "Indian Summer...