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During the third quarter of last year's Dartmouth game, a lone and blissful drunk wobbled from the stands and threw his arms around the north goal post. While he and the post swayed in unison, Boston police swung into action. A Keystone Cops chase with a Sonnet style pile-up at the finish followed, and as the drunk was led from the field it was touch and go as to whether he or the police looked sillier...
Everett's triumph was short-lived. In 1885, an effort was once again made to restore the banished seal. Oliver Wendell Holmes led the movement with a sonnet which ended...
...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...
...Wrote Milton, in his famous sonnet On His Blindness: When I consider how my light is spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear...
...began experimental things in forms, what I called 'involute rhymes'; you know, the sonnet seems somehow fancy now." Among many short poems, Alfred also contributed three odes on religious themes and has devoted himself mainly to longer poems ever since. "A poem usually takes me a few months, mostly elegies of people on my mind who keep coming back to me." The magazine folded in 1943 because Alfred and his friends had to enter the army...