The
_Rowley Poems_ and Percy's _Reliques_ mark the
beginning
of that
renascence of our older poetry so conspicuous in the time of Lamb
and Hazlitt.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Defeat his wiles; resist his
tempting
charms
E'en from suspicion suffer not alarms.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Quis enim credat, Petrarcae
praesertim
aetate,
adeo incuriosos Veronenses fuisse ut poetam suum quasi rursus sepultum
sinerent latere?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
But come--eleven days wait here, or twelve
A guest with me, when I will send thee hence
Nobly, and honour'd with illustrious gifts, 710
With polish'd chariot, with three princely steeds,
And with a
gorgeous
cup, that to the Gods
Libation pouring ever while thou liv'st
From that same cup, thou may'st remember me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The beginning of last month he
bought a slave, a
Paphlagonian
tanner, an arrant rogue, the incarnation
of calumny.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
thou
soundest
merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
18 _inte_ R
19 _herum_ GOR
20 _uocare cura_ ABCGOh:
_uocare{t}
ura_ R m.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation;
Blessed with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and
preserved
us a nation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Never I ween did lover hold such tryst,
For all night long he murmured honeyed word,
And saw her sweet unravished limbs, and kissed
Her pale and argent body undisturbed,
And paddled with the
polished
throat, and pressed
His hot and beating heart upon her chill and icy breast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
10
I almost hear thy Mitylenean love-song
In the spring night,
When the still air was odorous with blossoms,
And in the hour
Thy first wild girl's-love
trembled
into being, 15
Glad, glad and fond.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
The "bridge of rock" across Dungeon-Ghyll "chasm," and the "lofty
waterfall," with all its
accessories
of place as described in the poem,
remain as they were in 1800.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
She sits in an
armchair
under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
The sun just shines on her old white head.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Dictionary of
Obsolete
and Provincial English.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Dietrich
in Germania X.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Hart was the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
XXX
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more
mischief
than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
O troubled
reflection
in the sea!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
In the edition of 1833 appear the following stanzas, excised in 1842:--
So that my soul
beholding
in her pride
All these, from room to room did pass;
And all things that she saw, she multiplied,
A many-faced glass.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
--
I think it's
fiendish
to have killed so many.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
I labour to lose him, lose him with regret,
From that flows all my
sorrowful
secret.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Far, far across the
crimsoned
map the impassioned armies sweep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
In that alone is my joy expressed,
More than if I were the
emperor!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Religious duties they regarded less,
Than for the palour* to be nice in dress
Arranging ev'ry article to please,
That each might captivate and charm at ease;
The changes
constantly
they rang around,
And made the convent-walls with din resound.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Quelli ch'usurpa in terra il luogo mio,
il luogo mio, il luogo mio, che vaca
ne la presenza del
Figliuol
di Dio,
fatt' ha del cimitero mio cloaca
del sangue e de la puzza; onde 'l perverso
che cadde di qua su, la giu si placa>>.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
There musing sat the hoary-headed Earl,
(His dress a suit of frayed magnificence,
Once fit for feasts of
ceremony)
and said:
'Whither, fair son?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
And left--her slender
sweetness
to divine,
Alone a necklace wreathed with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Volunteers and
financial
support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To
engender
soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
--
"And quite
dismembred
hath; | the thirsty land
Dronke up his life; | his corse left on the strand.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
A
something
in a summer's noon, --
An azure depth, a wordless tune,
Transcending ecstasy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
And yet I knew one, in a
midnight
hour,
Who a brown liquid shrank from drinking.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Who gave you your
invulnerable
life,
Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
His
hand had grown heavy on the blackthorn he leaned on, and his cheeks
were hollow and worn, but so far as food went,
potatoes
and milk and a
bit of oaten cake, he had what he wanted of it; and it is not on the
edge of so wild and boggy a place as Echtge a mug of spirits would be
wanting, with the taste of the turf smoke on it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Come rather on some autumn afternoon,
When red and brown are burnished on the leaves,
And the fields echo to the gleaner's song,
Come when the
splendid
fulness of the moon
Looks down upon the rows of golden sheaves,
And reap Thy harvest: we have waited long.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Neither could I condole in a word or
syllable for him, as knowing no
accident
could do harm to virtue, but
rather help to make it manifest.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,
Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass,
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the
unreturniug
brave,--alas!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
It is a
fearsome
state of things--
Each day an execution.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"Its habit of getting up late you'll agree
That it carries too far, when I say
That it
frequently
breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,
And dines on the following day.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
[5]
"And that, in seeking to undo
One riddle, and to find the true,
I knit a hundred others new:
"Or that this anguish fleeting hence,
Unmanacled
from bonds of sense,
Be fix'd and froz'n to permanence:
"For I go, weak from suffering here;
Naked I go, and void of cheer:
What is it that I may not fear?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
You may convert to and
distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Therefore to
recollect
was I so slow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Solar symbols often call up visions of gold and
precious
stones.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
For each creature feels
By
instinct
to what use to put his powers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Graham's goodness to me
has been
generous
and noble!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
<< Je sais que la douleur est la noblesse unique
Ou ne
mordront
jamais la terre et les enfers,
Et qu'il faut pour tresser ma couronne mystique
Imposer tous les temps et tous les univers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Fair Acidalia, love's
celestial
queen,[544]
The graceful goddess of the fearless mien,
Her graceful freedom on his look bestow'd,
And all collected in his bosom glow'd.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
The large lake
sparkled
unruffled; the swans, just awake, were gravely
quitting the bushes on the bank.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
True
Such a
marriage
was worth an old song,
Heard in Heaven though, as plain as the New.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
" The
Frenchman
has said
that it would be impossible for a critic to become a poet; and it is
impossible for a poet not to contain a critic.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
; whereas, every one of the Rhymes was composed by myself, and every
one of the
Illustrations
drawn by my own hand at the time the verses were
made.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
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: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
THE METHOD OF TRANSLATION
It is
commonly
asserted that poetry, when literally translated, ceases
to be poetry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The
horseman
hurries bye, she bolts to see,
And turns agen, from danger never free.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Lorsque mes doigts
caressent
a loisir
Ta tete et ton dos elastique,
Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir
De palper ton corps electrique,
Je vois ma femme en esprit; son regard,
Comme le tien, aimable bete,
Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
After his lengthy service to the State,
After the blood he spilt for me of late,
Whatever sentiments his pride inflicts,
His loss
enfeebles
me, his death afflicts.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
And then his
alchemy!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
His
inaccessible
heart is opposed to love:
Let's find a weaker spot that he might be moved.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
We hear -- thou knowest
if sooth it is -- the saying of men,
that amid the
Scyldings
a scathing monster,
dark ill-doer, in dusky nights
shows terrific his rage unmatched,
hatred and murder.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Something
browner than Judas's.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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 |
|
With so much
quarrelling
and so few kisses
How long do you think our love can last?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
(Note: The septet may indicate the
constellation
of Ursa Major in the north.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
To-day the doors and windows
Are hung with
garlands
all,
From Castor in the Forum,
To Mars without the wall.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
7 or
obtain permission for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Chor: Doubtless the people shouting to behold
Thir once great dread, captive, & blind before them,
Or at some proof of
strength
before them shown.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"_The play was first performed when
Glaukinos
was Archon, in the 2nd
year of the 85th Olympiad_ (438 B.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
e
wasshyng
of her vessel
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly
twisting
the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Mine eye perus'd
With tearful vacancy the _dampy_ grass
Which wept and glitter'd in the paly ray;
And I did pause me on my lonely way,
And mused me on those
wretched
ones who pass
O'er the black heath of Sorrow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
War, he sung, is toil and trouble,
Honour but an empty bubble,
Never ending, still beginning;
Fighting
still, and still destroying;
If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the good the gods provide thee!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Am I a God as he,
To lay down peace and power as
willingly?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
She later
associated
herself more with New
York City.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And if I should languish, jaded,
That which was erewhile unknown
Now to me this day is clear,
That my final hope hath flown:
That your joys for me have faded
New-born sun, and
youthful
year.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|