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...poem! We were in hopes that the Vassar Miscellany would contain a poem, that we might have a chance to return a kiss for a blow; but, alas! her only poems were quoted from the Crimson. If, however, we were to venture a criticism upon her review of our sonnet, we should say that the physiological ignorance which she displays is alarming in a college girl...
...That don't sound just right either. I am a little mixed. I'll try an extemporary theme for English 5, or, better still, I'll repeat a little English; that will quiet my nerves. I'll begin with Milton's sonnet on a Freshman addicted to bragging...
...churches, whatever their name, but allows no lines of circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...
...whose memories yet retain the exhilarating tone of the Dean's afternoon receptions. The delightful little essay on Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word shall might give way to the gentle "may" or to the potential and insinuating...
Intoned no lauding sonnet from the West...