Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read...
...original poem has only sixty-two words in two aaba quatrains and a concluding couplet. It may be translated without rhyme thus...
...introductory essays on the spirit, the history, and the technique of Chinese poetry, Dr. Bart committed himself to several errors. Just to point out two: Chu Yuan is not "one of the shadowy personalities that appear often, in the annals of Chinese literature" and his poem Li Sao is not "a rambling poem which seldom makes a strong appeal to the foreign reader." He is the greatest of all Chinese poets by universal consent. Indeed so great is he that he needs not our "weak witness" of his name though very uncertain do we feel about his life and birth...
March, "There's Only One Vienna"Schrammel *"Die Fledermaus," Overture Strauss *"The Old Refrain" Kreisler *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltz Strauss "Spring Night in Vienna," Waltz Crist *Unfinished Symphony (First Movement) Schubert *"La Valse," Choreographic Poem Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltz Strauss *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Piano Soloist: Jesus Maria Sauroma *Strike Up The Band Gershwin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...lived in the 18th Century, Poet Stephen Vincent Benét would almost certainly not have written in verse. Many a reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those...