See her whose darling child a long year past
Has dwelt beyond the wild Carpathian foam;
That long year o'er, the envious southern blast
Still bars him from his home:
Weeping and praying to the shore she clings,
Nor ever thence her
straining
eyesight turns:
So, smit by loyal passion's restless stings,
Rome for her Caesar yearns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy
ignorance
aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Six long necks look out
Of her rank shoulders; every neck doth let
A ghastly head out; every head, three set,
Thick thrust together, of abhorred teeth,
And every tooth stuck with a sable death;
Charybdis, too, whose horrid throat did draw
The
brackish
sea up.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Such tortuous
expression
of emotion did not
lead to good poetry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
,
_measure
by miles_: gen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Gathering up with defiance
My pale-mandarin's sleeves
I puff out my mouth - and breathe
Gentle
Christian
advice.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"I fear thee, ancyent
Marinere!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
_"
[Communicated to the Museum in the handwriting of Burns: part, but not
much, is
believed
to be old.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"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 |
|
Yet, arts are thine that rock th'
unsleeping
heart,
And smiles to Solitude and Want impart.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
For Troy, that was burned with fire
And
forgetteth
not?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Or what if the tsarevich
Should suddenly arise from out the grave,
Should cry, "Where are ye, children,
faithful
servants?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
She burnt, she lov'd the tyranny,
And, all subdued,
consented
to the hour
When to the bridal he should lead his paramour.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
_
"But like a rock unmov'd, a rock that braves
The raging tempest, and the rising waves--
Propp'd on himself he stands: his solid sides
Wash off the sea-weeds, and the
sounding
tides.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Die, frantic wretch, for this
accursed
deed!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
'
Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Antidotes
Of medicated music,
answering
for
Mankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pour
From thence into their ears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
I do not approve of
anything
that that tampers with natural arrogance.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
]
223 (return)
[
Inhabitants
of that part of Bavaria which lies between Bohemia and the Danube.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
[Aside] 'Tis Butts,
The King's physician; as he pass'd along,
How
earnestly
he cast his eyes upon me!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Bedenke wohl die erste Zeile,
Dass deine Feder sich nicht
ubereile!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
"For of all the runes and rhymes
Of all times,
Best I like the ocean's dirges,
When the old harper heaves and rocks,
His hoary locks
Flowing and
flashing
in the surges!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
See his
vengeance
in your daughter's face.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
And
Lucretius
designs a whole book in his sixth:--
"Quod in primo quoque carmine claret.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
For you, on Latmos,
fondling
your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Then again he dips his wing
In the
wrinkles
of the spring,
Then oer the rushes flies again,
And pearls roll off his back like rain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Ils ecoutent le bon pain cuire
Le
boulanger
au gras sourire
Chante un vieil air.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
REYNOLDS
THE THREE
GLORIOUS
DAYS.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Nothing: but not so art thou,
Soul of my
thought!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Howe'er great is pharaoh, the magi, king,
Encompassed by an
idolizing
ring,
None is so high as Tiglath Pileser.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
XXXV
Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;
Abhorred
bloodshed and tumultuous strife,
Unmanly murder, and unthrifty scath,?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
With great enterprise he had
transported
his
gladiators across the Po, and suddenly flung them on to the opposite
bank.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The birds are silent in their dim retreat,
Nor any note is heard in wood or grass,
Save the bough perched Cicala's
wearying
cry,
Which deafens hill and dale, and sea and sky.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
" he said, "with what you do,
For
business
calls me, I must not delay.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"But often it happens on skiey hills" thou sayest,
"That neighbouring tops of lofty trees are rubbed
One against other, smote by the blustering south,
Till all ablaze with
bursting
flower of flame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
'
Who but himself--himself anticipating the but too
probable
termination
of his own course?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Both show a
survival
of
a past interest, of which the dramatist himself realizes the obsolete
character.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Three days in the
cathedral
did I visit
His corpse, escorted thither by all Uglich.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
He gave
These opals to the woman whom he loved;
And now, like glinting
sunbeams
through the rain,
The rays of thought that through his spirit moved
Leap out from these mysterious forms again.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[87] The subject of personal satire
was a favorite one with him, and in _The Magnetic Lady_ he makes the
sufficiently explicit statement: 'A play, though it apparel and present
vices in general, flies from all
particularities
in persons'.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
It must be frankly
confessed
that these lines do not ring true.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
You dropped a purple
ravelling
in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The horrid crags, by toppling convent crowned,
The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep,
The mountain moss by
scorching
skies imbrowned,
The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep,
The tender azure of the unruffled deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
The torrents that from cliff to valley leap,
The vine on high, the willow branch below,
Mixed in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
ou art welcome nou vs tille,
here-in
schaltou
wone.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
"
He,
gathering
fury, still made sign to draw.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
XVI
AND the lord of earls, to each that came
with Beowulf over the briny ways,
an
heirloom
there at the ale-bench gave,
precious gift; and the price {16a} bade pay
in gold for him whom Grendel erst
murdered, -- and fain of them more had killed,
had not wisest God their Wyrd averted,
and the man's {16b} brave mood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
+
Maintain
attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following
whimsical
lines:--
"'Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
SEA LONGING
A THOUSAND miles beyond this sun-steeped wall
Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand,
The ebbing tide
forsakes
the listless land
With the old murmur, long and musical;
The windy waves mount up and curve and fall,
And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow,--
Tho' I am inland far, I hear and know,
For I was born the sea's eternal thrall.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
If I should die,
And you should live,
And time should gurgle on,
And morn should beam,
And noon should burn,
As it has usual done;
If birds should build as early,
And bees as
bustling
go, --
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
grudge not the wheat
Which hunger forces birds to eat:
Your blinded eyes, worst foes to you,
Can't see the good which
sparrows
do.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying
to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children
of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The ancient Mariner
earnestly
entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the
penance of life falls on him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
org
While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
non mihi mille placent, non sum desultor amoris:
tu mihi, siqua fides, cura perennis eris;
tecum, quos dederint annos mihi fila sororum,
uiuere contingat, te
moriente
mori;
te mihi materiem felicem in carmina praebe:
prouenient causa carmina digna sua.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Now it is seen, if there be likelihood,
That king who reigns in so remote a land,
Followed by such a mighty multitude,
Should set his foot on warlike Africk's strand;
Traversing
sands, to which in evil hour
Cambyses trusted his ill-omened power.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Then live we
mirthful
while we should,
And turn the iron age to gold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Project
Gutenberg
volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
If the
cathedral
still shall have its isles.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Ne'er have my house so cursed an indweller--
Heaven send me, rather,
childless
to be slain!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Yet must I now lament that lips so pure of the purest
Damsel, thy slaver foul soiled with
filthiest
kiss.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
And you, even you, will be like this drear thing,
A vile
infection
man may not endure;
Star that I yearn to!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
She would not, for no words of ours, unveil,
And
something
held us back from handling her.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
There is a
blessing
in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Of the dead, Michael Angelo
appealed
chiefly to him there;
Landor among the living.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Joie
Des
chantiers
riverains a l'abandon, en proie
Aux soirs d'aout qui faisaient germer ces pourritures!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
work or any other work
associated
with Project Gutenberg-tm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Fair fall the
freighted
boats which gold and stone
And spices bear to sea:
Slim, gleaming maidens swell their mellow notes,
Love-promising, entreating-- 10
Ah!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
No
pleasure
in point-lace collars take then,
Nor for the dance thy person deck then!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell
Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell
The
luckless
Pots he marr'd in making--Pish!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
of all unparallel'd, alone,
Who with thy beauties hast enamour'd Heaven,
Whose like has never been, nor e'er shall be;
For holy
thoughts
with chaste and pious acts
To the true God a sacred living shrine
In thy fecund virginity have made:
By thee, dear Mary, yet my life may be
Happy, if to thy prayers,
O Virgin meek and mild!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The great city is that which has the
greatest
man or woman;
If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the
whole world.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Let Paphos lift the mirror;
let her look
into the
polished
center of the disk.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Cousin, farewell; what
presence
must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
He arose from the blow, adjusted his clothes, and made no
attempt at retaliation at all--merely muttering a few words about
"taking summary vengeance at the first
convenient
opportunity,"--a
natural and very justifiable ebullition of anger, which meant nothing,
however, and, beyond doubt, was no sooner given vent to than forgotten.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The dark wave, the plumed wave,
It meets his eager glance;
And it
sparkles
'neath the stars,
Like the glimmer of a lance--
A dark wave, a plumed wave,
On an emerald expanse.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
O
Camerado
close!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Ritson supposes it to be Caer-went, in Monmouthshire,
and afterwards
confounded
with Caer-wynt, or Winchester.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Were this misfortune viewed with proper eyes,
Such ills from
cuckoldom
would ne'er arise.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An
overcoat
of clay.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Though true it be that none with surer seat
O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
Nor any swims so fleet
Adown the Tuscan tide,
Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
And though he call you hard,
Remain
obdurate
still.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
--Ease and relaxation are
profitable
to all studies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|