If you are
redistributing or providing access to a work with the phrase "Project
Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the work, you must comply
either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Night
came to the aid of Titianus and Celsus, for Annius Gallus[312] had
already placed
sentinels
on guard and got the men under control.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,
A knife-grinder works at his wheel
sharpening
a great knife,
Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but
firm hand,
Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
Sparkles from the wheel.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
A popular exposition of this
theory, and of the evidence by which it is supported, may not be
without
interest
even for readers who are unacquainted with the
ancient languages.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
)
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
He speaks of his first poems, the 'Pastorals' and
'Windsor Forest',
harmless
as Hervey's own verses, and tells how even
then critics like Dennis fell foul of him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
It was
placed among the "Poems
referring
to the Period of Childhood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Thou, even thou, mayst wake, as wakes the rose
To crimson
splendour
from its grave of snows;
As the rich corn-fields rise to red and gold
From these brown lands, now stiff with Winter's cold;
As from the storm-rack comes a perfect star!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Spring through the birch-tree's veins is flowing,
The very pine is feeling it;
Should not its
influence
set our limbs a-glowing?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
at
gostlych
speked,
With his hede in his honde, bifore ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
And therefore, since
The canvas hangings thus
discharge
their dye
From off their surface, things in general must
Likewise their tenuous effigies discharge,
Because in either case they are off-thrown
From off the surface.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
For there were sleeping dragons all around,
At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears--
Down the wide stairs a
darkling
way they found.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
"
—Chicago
Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
What passing
generations
fill these halls,
What passing voices echo front these walls,
Ye heed not; we are only as the blast,
A moment heard, and then forever past.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
tu
alimenta
uitae tribuis perpetua fide,
et, cum recesserit anima, in tete refugimus:
ita, quidquid tribuis, in te cuncta recidunt.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
135
XVI
Great pleasures mixt with
pittiful
regard,
That godly King and Queene did passionate,
Whiles they his pittifull adventures heard,
That oft they did lament his lucklesse state,
And often blame the too importune fate, 140
That heaped on him so many wrathfull wreakes:
For never gentle knight, as he of late,
So tossed was in fortunes cruell freakes;
And all the while salt teares bedeawd the hearers cheaks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
I see male and female everywhere;
I see the serene
brotherhood
of philosophs;
I see the constructiveness of my race;
I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race;
I see ranks, colours, barbarisms, civilisations--I go among them--I mix
indiscriminately,
And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
"BETWEEN US NOW"
BETWEEN us now and here--
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's
flushest
feather--
Who see the scenes slide past,
The daytimes dimming fast,
Let there be truth at last,
Even if despair.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
nisi quod _uere_ ex _uero_ mutatum est in
C ||
_euoluam_
ed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
nec
flectere
Parcas
aut placare malae datur aspera numina Lethes?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Verbenna
down to Ostia
Hath wasted all the plain;
Astur hath stormed Janiculum,
And the stout guards are slain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and
labyrinth
you there
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
The boatman smiles,
Princess
Volupine extends
A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand
To climb the waterstair.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
,
_kinsman
by blood_: nom.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
For more than six months, desperate, ashamed,
Bearing throughout the wound with which I'm maimed, 540
I steeled myself towards you, and myself, in vain:
Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again:
Your image follows me in the forest's night:
The shadows of darkness, and broad daylight,
Both bring to my eyes the charms that I avoid, 545
Both snare the rebel
Hippolytus
on every side.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Then seemed it that a tameless hurricane
Arose, and bore me in its dark career
Beyond the sun, beyond the stars that wane
On the verge of formless space--it languished there, _1345
And dying, left a silence lone and drear,
More horrible than famine:--in the deep
The shape of an old man did then appear,
Stately and beautiful; that
dreadful
sleep
His heavenly smiles dispersed, and I could wake and weep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
She is
pleasant
to look on, give Her to me today!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
London:
Macmillan
and Co.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
[ash-heaps
Bestroking
Fate the while
He burns to embers on the Pile.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
shall
reviving
thraldom again be
The patched-up idol of enlightened days?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
But Geraint was not
delighted
with the magnificence.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
shall I ever in
aftertime
behold
My native bounds- see many a harvest hence
With ravished eyes the lowly turf-roofed cot
Where I was king?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
"
A harrier fair ran out of his palace,
Among them all the
greatest
bear assailed
On the green grass, beyond his friends some way.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
wherefore did you blind
Yourself
from his quick eyes?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
freely
distributed
in machine readable form accessible by the widest
array of equipment including outdated equipment.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
He was detestably poor, and
this was the reason, no doubt, that his expletive
expressions
about
betting, seldom took a pecuniary turn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
"There while the wild winds whistled o'er the main,
Thus careful I address'd the
listening
train:
"'O friends, be wise!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
No more shall Beauty's partial eye draw forth
The full
intoxication
of his strain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Hold my heart, my brain will take fire of you
As flax ignites from a lit fire-brand--
And flame will sweep in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing
currents
of my blood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
this strange man has left me
Troubled
with wilder fancies, than the moon
Breeds in the love-sick maid who gazes at it,
Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye
She gazes idly!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
To south the
headstones
cluster,
The sunny mounds lie thick;
The dead are more in muster
At Hughley than the quick.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Botte, loverde[145], whie so manie
Normannes
here?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Then bids prepare the
hospitable
treat:
Vain shows of love to veil his felon hate!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
And as when [365-398]the Edonian North wind's wrath roars on the
deep Aegean, and the wave follows it shoreward; where the blast comes
down, the clouds race over the sky; so,
wheresoever
Turnus cleaves his
way, columns retreat and lines turn and run; his own speed bears him on,
and his flying plume tosses as his chariot meets the breeze.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Un soir fait de rose et de bleu mystique,
Nous
echangerons
un eclair unique,
Comme un long sanglot, tout charge d'adieux;
Et plus tard un Ange, entr'ouvrant les portes,
Viendra ranimer, fidele et joyeux,
Les miroirs ternis et les flammes mortes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
In dens of passion, and pits of woe,
He saw strong Eros
struggling
through,
To sun the dark and solve the curse,
And beam to the bounds of the universe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
But it is because Tacitus is never a
mere stylist that some of us continue in the failure to
translate
him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
To Theophile Gautier
Friend, poet spirit, you have fled our night,
You left our noise, to
penetrate
the light;
Now your name will shine on pure summits.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake,
Still track your footprints 'neath the
broiling
sun.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
And ever since that martial synod met,
Britannia
sickens, Cintra, at thy name;
And folks in office at the mention fret,
And fain would blush, if blush they could, for shame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
IV
O Pan of the evergreen forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not
hearkened!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Dost thou not know, my Queen,
That, when I taught thee songs, thou
taughtest
me
The divine secret, Beauty?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
But why this
mourning
hair, this garb of woe?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Besides, so strongly am I interested in Miss Davies's fate
and welfare in the serious
business
of life, amid its chances and
changes, that to make her the subject of a silly ballad is downright
mockery of these ardent feelings; 'tis like an impertinent jest to a
dying friend.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The person or entity that provided you
with the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in
lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The willows
Are
yellowed
with bud.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Note: Pound adapts and
utilises
phrases from verse 1, 'qual cor mi vai: that goes to my heart' at the start of Canto XCI; 'es laissa cader: lets fall' and 'de joi sas alas: with joy, its wings' in Notes for Canto CXVII et seq.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
) Ye know
How Divine Providence saved the tsarevich
From out the murderer's hands; he went to punish
His murderer, but God's
judgment
hath already
Struck down Boris.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"They should, by rights,
Give them a chance--because, you know,
The tastes of people differ so,
Especially
in Sprites.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
MEPHISTOPHILIS: Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
conspired
against our God with Lucifer,
And are forever damned with Lucifer.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Are you
faithful
to things?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Must I go starved because some
stranger
dies?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Probably there
is more reliance to be put on the ascriptions of later and Caroline
poems, but for the student of Donne and early
Jacobean
poetry the
collection has no value.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Out with it,
DUNCIAD!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
This far-fetched little poem
is an
instance
of Herrick's habit of jotting down his thoughts in verse.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
yon home of Brothers' Love appears
Set in the burnished silver of July,
On Schuylkill wrought as in old broidery
Clasped hands upon a shining baldric lie,
New Hampshire, Georgia, and the mighty ten
That lie between, have heard the huge-nibbed pen
Of
Jefferson
tell the rights of man to men.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
What need hath Nature of
silver dishes, multitudes of waiters,
delicate
pages, perfumed napkins?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
_527 And edition 1822; As
editions
1839.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The snuff of a candle, or a mischievous dog, might in a
moment have
deprived
the world forever of any of those fine
compositions.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
)
Good even, my good
brother!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
He is eager to do his
opponent the amplest justice, and to put the
fairest construction on his conduct He is fearful
only lest their private quarrel should be of the
slighest
detriment
to the public service.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
--Enough: but say he wronged thee; slew
By craft thy child:--what wrong had I done, what
The babe
Orestes?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Nay, rather it is the quietness of power,
That knows there is no
turbulence
in life
Dare the least questioning hindrance set against
The onward of its going,--therefore quiet,
All gentle.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
"My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,
Methinks
I might recover by-and-bye!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
punishment {Erdman does not provide this line of
inserted
and struck text, but it appears to be the same text as Blake inserts below.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Tempo vegg' io, non molto dopo ancoi,
che tragge un altro Carlo fuor di Francia,
per far
conoscer
meglio e se e ' suoi.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
'Wee now being in this faire course, some sixtie leagues onwards our
journey with our whole Fleet together, there suddenly arose a fierce
and tempestuous storme full in our teethe, continuing for foure dayes
with so great violence, as that now
everyone
was inforced rather to
looke to his own safetie, and with a low saile to serve the Seas,
then to beate it up against the stormy windes to keep together, or to
follow the directions for the places of meeting.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
But idol-films do tend,
As once sent forth, in straight
directions
all;
Wherefore one can inside a wall see naught,
Yet catch the voices from beyond the same.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
And this soon brought a confession, that he was a
Polish Jew by birth, and was sent to examine the strength of the fleet
by Zabajo, who was
mustering
all his power to attack the Portuguese.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
But as they come,
Leviathan
sneezes twice .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The
frontless
cynic next in rank I saw,
Sworn foe to decency and nature's modest law.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|