Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rebellion in New York in 1690, and promises to be very good. The other articles are "The Highest Structure in the World," a description of the great Eiffel tower in Paris, by William A. Eddy, "Bonny Hugh of Ironbrook," by Edith Brown: "A World of Roses," a beautiful little poem by Edith Thomas; "The German Gymnasium in its Working Order" by G. M. Wahl; "The War Cry of Clan Grant" by W. Mitchell; "The Church the State and the School," by H. E. Scudder; and a short biography of Hector Berlioz...
...deference to the wishes of the Senior class, the Yale Faculty have made a slight change in the order of the graduating exercises, Instead of having all the exercises take place on Friday, the persentation for degrees and the reading of the class oration and poem will occur on Friday morning, June 21st, and the class histories will be read on the campus Monday afternoon, June...
...Milton and Homer" by V. I X. shows the superficial resemblance be tween the epics of these two great poets, and their radical difference in spirit and substance. In the first place "Milton's poem is personal and Homer's is not;" then "in opposition to the simplicity, the unconsciousness, the grandeur of the Homeric poems," we have the "singlemindedness" of Milton. But at times both come together in "the really highest poetry...
...governors. The total impression made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From...
...feature of the Atlantic Monthly for April is the poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes read at the dinner in honor of James Russell Lowell's seventieth birthday. It has all of Dr. Holmes' grace and felicity of expression. "Passe Rose" Mr. Hardy's interesting serial is concluded in this number, also Miss Bellamy's "Hannah Collinse's Jim." There are several interesting essays on history and politics-among which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century...