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...verse Mr. Cumming's "Nocturne" appeals through its intricate pattern and decoration, inducing a mood and sense of beauty, but lacking the truth to emotional experience achieved in Mr. Hillyer's "Night on the Mountain." The latter, though defective in rhyme, fails chiefly in the introduction of "death," and the last line, which escapes anticlimax by false hyperbole. The psychology of Tapolo, "contented" with a clear night while praying for rain, defies analysis. Much better is the heavily alliterative rendering from Tolstoi by Mr. Garland. Its last lines, however, leave the point insufficiently clear, while such phraseology as "wended their...
...Peterson's poem, "Neap Tide," is remarkable not only for its careful observation of outer nature, but also for its pleasant melody of rhyme. Mr. Gray's college story, "The Firing Line," is an amiable trifle. It is to be regretted that in it the dialogue dies away into narrative at exactly the spot where it should be most interesting., Mr. Thwing's sonnet to the memory of Mr. Higginson, worthily pays a brave man, "a brave man's meed...
...verse in the number, as well as the prose, is marked by sincerity, but it is curiously inarticulate. For once the poets seem to have had more to say than they were able skilfully to express in rhyme and rhythm. We have that rare thing in college verse the substance more interesting than the form...
...composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though not quite musical and at the end not quite clear, may be called a "lovable" poem for its fine spirit and its unpretentious truth. The other poem, "The West," shows in the rhythm experience and some skill; but "meadowland" and "hinterland" make dubious rhyme, and "hinterland" is dubious English. Such verses, also...
...poetry is considerably below that of its prose. "Explanations," by Mr.E.E. Hunt, and "Voices in the Fall," by Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez, are little more than experiments in versification. Mr. Husband's "Dry Northeaster" is a spirited bit of writing, marred by a lack of technique. "Aft" does not rhyme with "mast"; nor can an adjective conclude one line, while the noun it qualifies begins the next, as in the opening of the second stanza. In Mr. Biddle's "On the Bridge" it is probably a printer's error that gives "eye" as a rhyme to "skies." The little poem...