Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...Amherst Student is good, as it always is. The following stanza, taken from "An Ode" dedicated and presented to Daniel Pratt, on occasion of his recent visit to Amherst, shows that the students have profited by the teachings of that great philosopher...
...while her lover "stands still in the gathering dew" at the foot, "listening and waiting" for her. The following verse, on account of the boldness of metaphor in the first two lines, the startling paradox in the second two, and the realistic beauty of the refrain which ends the stanza, we copy in full...
...Slave," which the College Herald parades at the head of its "Literary" department. Its badness is hardly even enough to make it pleasant reading; yet there are a few passages for which striking is perhaps the best term. For instance, the extraordinary manifestation of second-sight in the first stanza...