Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...submarine watch,--two on and six off,--I can assure you very sincerely that the transports take no end of precautions to evade the 'fish,' as commanders call them. In thirteen days we sighted France, going slowly up a tiny river into a small port, just as dusk settled. Some women were waving American flags on the porches, or rather the door-steps of their tiny white houses, and I felt thrills leaping from my heart to my head that I shall never forget. The spirit of France, her sacrifices and hardships, her maltreatment and loyal fight...
Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...
...Spring" is sincere, sensitive, and despite its form truly poetic. "Soul of Man" is more incoherent and, I suppose, more completely "modern"--a riot of rich color, with no composition which the ordinary uninitiated reader can detect. Mr. Denison is modern in form only; in all other respects his "Dusk" is a very conventional piece of description...
...Clark '16, prints a poem "At Dusk," in free verse; and he justifies the form. The two stanzas describe the same moment, but from the two different points of view of a man and a woman. There are several lines that stir the imagination deeply...
...Parting," by Mr. S. Hall '16; and "Off to the War," by Mr. W. Willcox '17 seem to be from the viewpoint, at least, of impressionistic criticism--the three most deserving poems. "Off to the War" has a splendid swing and military air. The other poems are "Dusk," by Mr. B. P. Clark '16; "The Pine Grove," by Mr. W. A. Norris '18; "Song of Spring," by Mr. A. Putnam '18; Mr. Putnam's "The Forest" and his "Liberty," and "Their Lots," by Mr. J. Gazzam '17. The current number is certainly a bargain for the lover of poetry...