Word: poets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...best adapted by nature and most familiar by practice. But here I must pause, for with the remembrance of the Monday night drill, the words of command and battle struggle for utterance. Yes, gentlemen, let the historian chronicle my exploits in war if he will; let the poet sing them in paeans of martial melody: but do you, while memory keeps her tablet green, treasure me in your hearts as the FOUNDER OF THE HARVARD RIFLE CORPS...
THERE will be no poet for the Phi Beta Kappa dinner...
...class poet, Mr. Edward Hale, of Northampton, was next introduced, and read a strikingly original poem. Both the conception and the treatment of the poem were unique. The conception of the opening was worthy of Holmes, the changes from "grave to gay" were very gracefully made, and the speaker was successful in sustaining the poetic spirit throughout the whole...
After about fifteen minutes, when the applause which burst forth spontaneously at this brilliant sally, had somewhat abated, Miss Rosamond Mortimer, the poet, was escorted on to the stage. Her appearance was in every respect romantic. Her profile was of the purest Grecian type, excepting her nose, which, being a little retrousse, added marvellously to the deep sentiment written plainly in her other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty...
...vague as visions in a poet's dream...