The crowd
dwindled
away; Chvabrine disappeared.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
She hath no questions, she hath no replies,
Hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth
Of all that irked her from the hour of birth;
With
stillness
that is almost Paradise.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
With legs and arms a limpid
treacherous
swimmer
With endless leaps, disowning the sickness
Hamlet!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
e
hoolnesse
of science.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
On this the other
homeward
took his way,
To boast how nicely he had gained the day.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Burbank with a Baedeker:
Bleistein
with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how charming its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
nos tamen interea tenerum mactabimus haedum
et pariter subitae
peragemus
fercula cenae.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing
access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided
that
- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from
the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method
you already use to
calculate
your applicable taxes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
-
Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
t
so ben vices {and} sy{n}ne
maladies
of corage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
He told me the other day that foxes and cats
like, above all, to be in the 'forths' and lisses after nightfall; and
he will
certainly
pass from some story about a fox to a story about a
spirit with less change of voice than when he is going to speak about
a marten cat--a rare beast now-a-days.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
His busy
circling
orbs, two restless spies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
the poppies hung
Dew-dabbled on their stalks, the ouzel sung
A heavy ditty, and the sullen day
Had chidden herald
Hesperus
away,
With leaden looks: the solitary breeze
Bluster'd, and slept, and its wild self did teaze
With wayward melancholy; and I thought,
Mark me, Peona!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
"
And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys
That
exquisite
nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Two men
drinking
together where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Rich clouds, for canopies, about her curled--
Fit emblems of the model of her world--
Seen but in beauty--not impeding sight
Of other beauty
glittering
thro' the light--
A wreath that twined each starry form around,
And all the opal'd air in color bound.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
What needeth
Holofernes
more?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
In Dryden we see the first master of the
new: in Milton, whose genius
dominates
here as Shakespeare's in the
former book,--the crown and consummation of the early period.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Over us and past us go the years;
Like wind that taketh sound from jubilee
And aloud flieth ringing,
Over us goeth the speed of the years,
Like loud noise eternally bringing
The
greatness
women have done.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
My Two Daughters
In
pleasant
evening's fresh-clear darkness,
One seems a swan, the other a dove,
Both joyous, both lovely, O sweetness!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Something
o' that, I said.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
While the near moon, that coasts the vast profound,
Wheels pale and silent her
diminished
round, 1820.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the
copyright
holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
--his friends came round
Supported him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its
marriage
robe, the heavy body wound.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
CVIII
"On this condition was the treaty plight,
And the accord between us now in force;
When I with thee shall have
performed
the fight,
I next shall answer him about the horse:
You then with him, if you survive, your right
Shall to the shield maintain in warlike course.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with unslakable yearning
Greatly
desiring
wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
As ye gae up by yon hillside,
Speir in for bonie Bessy;
She'll gie ye a beck, and bid ye light,
And
handsomely
address ye.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
]
The River Deity upbraids his Daughters, the
contributary
Streams:--
Ye daughters mine!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
My
feelings
had been wounded.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
And I know a grove
Of large extent, hard by a castle huge
Which the great lord inhabits not: and so
This grove is wild with
tangling
underwood,
And the trim walks are broken up, and grass,
Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
[54] The
scene, however, is introduced for incidental purposes, the satirization
of foreign
fashions
and the follies of London society, and is
overelaborated.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
He though wedded to girl in greenest bloom of her youth-tide,
(Bride-wife daintier bred than ever was delicate kidlet, 15
Worthier diligent watch than grape-bunch
blackest
and ripest)
Suffers her sport as she please nor rates her even at hair's worth,
Nowise 'stirring himself, but lying log-like as alder
Felled and o'er floating the fosse of safe Ligurian woodsman,
Feeling withal, as though such spouse he never had own'd; 20
So this marvel o' mine sees naught, and nothing can hear he,
What he himself, an he be or not be, wholly unknowing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"
"If with desire so strong thy bosom glows,
Ill (said the king) should I thy wish oppose;
For oft in others freely I reprove
The ill-timed efforts of
officious
love;
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme,
And both the golden mean alike condemn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Their feet, that crushed down freedom to its grave
And felt the very earth they trod a slave,
How quiet here they lie in death's cold arms
Without the power to crush the feeble worms
Who spite of all the
dreadful
fears they made
Creep there to conquer and are not afraid.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
That of Wittipol's
disguise
as a Spanish
lady, touched upon in the first two acts, becomes the chief interest of
the fourth.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
I fear me
'Tis as you say--his
lordship
is unwell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Beauteous
Rosebud, young and gay,
Blooming in thy early May,
Never may'st thou, lovely flower,
Chilly shrink in sleety shower!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
QUIA MULTUM AMAVI
DEAR Heart, I think the young impassioned priest
When first he takes from out the hidden shrine
His God imprisoned in the Eucharist,
And eats the bread, and drinks the
dreadful
wine,
Feels not such awful wonder as I felt
When first my smitten eyes beat full on thee,
And all night long before thy feet I knelt
Till thou wert wearied of Idolatry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
For myself, though conquered I'm content;
And despite my own amorous intent,
And
infinite
loss, I welcome my defeat,
Rendering a perfect love thus complete.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Among the
stranger
birds they feed,
Their summer flight is short and low;
There's very few know where they breed,
And scarcely any where they go.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I might well answer that among great names,
Worth alone deserves to stir the flames;
Or, if my passion sought for some excuse,
A
thousand
precedents have lit the fuse:
But I'll not follow where my thoughts engage;
My depth of feeling will not quench my courage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Our
informant
went on to state that this
singular being was proceeding to learn the Orlando Furioso in the
same manner.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
`Eek al my wo is this, that folk now usen
To seyn right thus, "Ye,
Ialousye
is love!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
You swore to me, when I did give it you,
That you would wear it till your hour of death,
And that it should lie with you in your grave;
Though not for me, yet for your
vehement
oaths,
You should have been respective and have kept it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Is it in vain our
conquering
arms subdue?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
that rage
Barbaric
antedates
the age;
It is not done on any stage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The mushroom is the elf of plants,
At evening it is not;
At morning in a
truffled
hut
It stops upon a spot
As if it tarried always;
And yet its whole career
Is shorter than a snake's delay,
And fleeter than a tare.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
This crowd is safer than the silent wood,
Where love's own doubts disturb the solitude;
On frozen hearts the fiery rain of wine
Falls, and the dew of music more divine _115
Tempers the deep
emotions
of the time
To spirits cradled in a sunny clime:--
How many meet, who never yet have met,
To part too soon, but never to forget.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
840
But for to tellen forth of Diomede: --
It fil that after, on the tenthe day,
Sin that Criseyde out of the citee yede,
This Diomede, as fresshe as
braunche
in May,
Com to the tente ther-as Calkas lay, 845
And feyned him with Calkas han to done;
But what he mente, I shal yow telle sone.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Then in a recess 270
Interior
of the cavern, side by side
Reposed, they took their amorous delight.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Yet
sometimes
we are liked ashamed, to be
Taking so much love from you, all for naught.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The Hare
River Landscape with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen,
Lodewijk
XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
If any one remarks as inconsistent with this plan the
inclusion of the more
considerable
fragments of Ennius and the early
tragedians, I will only say that I have not thought it worth while to be
wiser here than Time and Fate, which have of their own act given us
these poets in lamentable excerpt.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son,
tormented
by the shirt of Nessus immolated himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Yes, my blest hours have fled without a trace:
In vain I strove their parting to delay;
Brightly they beamed, then left a
cheerless
space,
Like an o'erclouded smile, that in the face
Lightens, and fades away.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"This cave under the sea seems to be another of those natural
phenomena of which the writer had personal
knowledge
(ll.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
That night long Lizzie watched by her,
Counted her pulse's flagging stir,
Felt for her breath,
Held water to her lips, and cooled her face
With tears and fanning leaves:
But when the first birds chirped about their eaves, 530
And early reapers plodded to the place
Of golden sheaves,
And dew-wet grass
Bowed in the morning winds so brisk to pass,
And new buds with new day
Opened of cup-like lilies on the stream,
Laura awoke as from a dream,
Laughed in the
innocent
old way,
Hugged Lizzie but not twice or thrice;
Her gleaming locks showed not one thread of grey, 540
Her breath was sweet as May
And light danced in her eyes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
* * * * *
--The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull,
contracted
circle, yielding light 5
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground--from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Then a little
spindling
tutor
Ran importantly to the father, crying:
"Pray, come hither!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
'
And I saw long ships, with their
smokestacks
leaning
In the white scud and the white foam and the smoky swift spray!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
" KAU}
Thus was the Mundane shell builded by Urizens strong power
Sorrowing Then went the
Planters
forth to plant, the Sowers forth to sow
They dug the channels for the rivers & they pourd abroad
PAGE 33
The seas & lakes, they reard the mountains & the rocks & hills
On broad pavilions, on pillard roofs & porches & high towers
In beauteous order, thence arose soft clouds & exhalations
Wandering even to the sunny orbs Cubes of light & heat {Lowercase "cubes" mended to "Cubes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Heron's Election--Ballad Third
Inscription
For An Altar Of Independence
Song--The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't
Song--The Cooper O' Cuddy
Song--The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
Song--Had I The Wyte?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
jewel
jubilant
and green,
'Midst surge that splits steel ships, but sings to thee!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
In a short time these become
a small tree, an
inverted
pyramid resting on the apex of the other, so
that the whole has now the form of a vast hour-glass.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In
steeples
far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
XCI
The cautious elder would not bear away
Thus all alone with him that damsel bland
Thither, where in a cave, concealed from day,
His
solitary
cell hard by did stand:
Within himself exclaiming: "I convey
With peril fire and fuel in one hand.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Euery sonenday
houseled
he was,
And shryuen also of vche trespas
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
His pace is a
sort of leopard canter, as if he were in no wise impeded by the snow,
but were
husbanding
his strength all the while.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
There was the home of a motion picture director
Famous for lavish whore-house interiors,
Clothes
ransacked
from the latest designs for women
In the combats of "male against female.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
He cut in stone an image of Alvar,
Cunningly
carved, and dragged it to the war;
He vowed a vow to yield no inch of ground
Until that image of itself turned round;
He reached Alvar--he saved him--and his line
Was old De Silva's, and his name was mine--
Ruy Gomez.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
the rib bones shine, the rib bones curve,
shine with savage, elegant curves--
a jawbone runs with a long white slant,
a skull dome runs with a long white arch,
bone
triangles
click and rattle,
elbows, ankles, white line slants--
shining in the sun, past the White House,
past the Treasury Building, Army and Navy Buildings,
on to the mystic white Capitol Dome--
so they go down Pennsylvania Avenue to-day,
skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose dark leaves at their white jaw slants--
and a horse laugh question nickers and whinnies,
moans with a whistle out of horse head teeth:
why?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Upon recovering, my first impulse, of course, was to inform my friend
of what I had seen and heard--and I can
scarcely
explain what feeling of
repugnance it was which, in the end, operated to prevent me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The first link in the mighty plan
Is still--and all
upbraideth
man.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Aeneas was our king,
foremost of men in righteousness, incomparable in goodness as in warlike
arms; whom if fate still preserves, if he draws the breath of heaven and
lies not yet low in
dispiteous
gloom, fear we have none; nor mayest thou
repent of challenging the contest of service.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Half a
thousand
dead men soon shall hear and see
We're a band!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
XLVII
The
courtyard
full of serfs he sees,
And from the country all around
Had come both friends and enemies--
Funeral amateurs abound!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
These
halls are
expensive
too, and the players of poetical drama in an age
of musical comedy have light pockets.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
But lest you think I am uncivil,
To plague you with this draunting drivel,
Abjuring a' intentions evil,
I quat my pen:
The Lord
preserve
us frae the devil,
Amen!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Shall Othman only unavenged
despoil?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
Of myself forever
reproaching
myself, (for who more foolish than I,
and who more faithless?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The
enclosed
will show you partly what I have been doing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Charles, to late times to be
transmitted
fair,
Assigned his figure to Bernini's care;
And great Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed
To fix him graceful on the bounding steed;
So well in paint and stone they judged of merit:
But kings in wit may want discerning spirit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since
separated
from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
" —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 |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|