How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
None are so
desolate
but something dear,
Dearer than self, possesses or possessed
A thought, and claims the homage of a tear;
A flashing pang!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
"
"That's true enough," said he, "yet stay--"
I listened in all meekness--
"_Union_ is strength, I'm bound to say;
In fact, the thing's as clear as day;
But
_onions_
are a weakness.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this
monument
encloses him entire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Humbug,
ascription
of praise to,
generally believed in.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Not a bee shall hear him creeping, _5
Not a may-fly shall awaken
From its
cradling
blue-bell shaken,
Not the starlight as he's sliding
Through the grass with silent gliding.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
A
worshipper
raised his arm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
God keep all evil from thy
children!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
ei
fayle{n}
of ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means,
On the plain below
recruits
are drilling and exercising,
There is the camp, one regiment departs to-morrow,
Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
[Sidenote A: Then was
Gringolet
arrayed,]
[Sidenote B: full ready to prick on.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
It seemed in the
darkness
a sound they heard,--
Was it feeble moaning or uttered word?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
'173-206'
In this section Pope
reproves
those who are dissatisfied with man's
faculties.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Why
standeth
she so still?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum;
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou was na sober;
That ilka melder wi' the Miller,
Thou sat as lang as thou had siller;
That ev'ry naig was ca'd a shoe on
The Smith and thee gat roarin' fou on;
That at the Lord's house, ev'n on Sunday,
Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday,
She
prophesied
that late or soon,
Thou wad be found, deep drown'd in Doon,
Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk,
By Alloway's auld, haunted kirk.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Like wild-bee humming through the woods your play,
And baby smiles have dared a world at bay:
Your tiny accents lisp their gentle charms
To mighty Paris
clashing
mighty arms.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Suavely down the sea-troughs settle,
Gravely breathe perfumes of prayer
'Twixt the
scolding
sea and air,
Bravely up the sea-hills rise --
Sea-hills slant thee toward the skies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
I also
wandered
there of old,
But cannot stand the northern cold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
REALIZING THE FUTILITY OF LIFE
Written on the wall of a priest's cell, _circa_ 828
Ever since the time when I was a lusty boy
Down till now when I am ill and old,
The things I have cared for have been
different
at different times,
But my being _busy_, _that_ has never changed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
But nought to me returns save sorrowing sighs,
Forced from my inmost heart by her who bore
Those keys which govern'd it unto the skies:
The blossom'd meads, the choristers of air,
Sweet courteous damsels can delight no more;
Each face looks savage, and each
prospect
drear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Love's sun went down without a frown,
For very joy it used to grieve us;
I often think the West is gone,
Ah, cruel Time, to
undeceive
us.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Tis but a trial all must undergo;
To teach unthankful mortals how to prize
That
happiness
vain man's denied to know,
Until he's called to claim it in the skies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"
These words awoke the
stranger
of dark tresses:
Her dawning love-look rapt Endymion blesses
With 'haviour soft.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
ipsi quos penes est honor canendi,
uocalis citharae repertor Arcas,
et tu Bassaridum rotator Euhan,
et Paean et Hyantiae sorores
laetae purpureas nouate uittas,
crinem comite, candidamque uestem
perfundant
hederae recentiores.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
When Nature's hand, in endless iteration,
The thread across the whizzing spindle flings,
When the complex, monotonous creation
Jangles with all its million strings:
Who, then, the long, dull series animating,
Breaks into
rhythmic
march the soulless round?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Farewell, ye woodlands I from the tall peak
Of yon aerial rock will
headlong
plunge
Into the billows: this my latest gift,
From dying lips bequeathed thee, see thou keep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Ay, 'twas here, on this spot,
In that summer of yore,
Atalanta
did not
Vote my presence a bore,
Nor reply to my tenderest talk "She had heard all that nonsense before.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Morning has not
occurred!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
--
An anthem for the
queenliest
dead that ever died so young--
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Idly he wandered on the Stygian shore,
Nor now
preserved
the walls he loved to shield before.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
i4o
Is not this he, whose offspring fierce
Shall fight through all the universe ;
And with successive valour try
France, Poland, either Germany,
Till one, as long since prophesied, s«5
His horse through
conquered
Britain ride ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
CXLII
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin,
grounded
on sinful loving:
O!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
_ Bow down to Him on high who sends
His
heavenly
help and helping friends!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
]
[Sub-Variant 5: This couplet was
cancelled
in the edition of 1827.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
6 Seeing Off Attendant Censor Fan (23) on his Way to a Post as
Administrative
Assistant in Hanzhong The Bow that overawes could not be strung,2 since then there have been no peaceful years.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
" KAU}
With
compasses
divide the deep; they the strong scales erect
PAGE 29
That Luvah rent from the faint Heart of the [Eternal] [Ancient] Fallen Man {The word "Ancient" written in pencil, then erased.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
The Goal of Project
Gutenberg
is to Give Away One Trillion Etext
Files by December 31, 2001.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He says
indifferently
and alike How are you friend?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Said the Chair unto the Table,
"Now, you _know_ we are not able:
How foolishly you talk,
When you know we
_cannot_
walk!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
Breathing
like one that hath a weary dream.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
LE
CHATIMENT
DE TARTUFE
Tisonnant, tisonnant son coeur amoureux sous
Sa chaste robe noire, heureux, la main gantee,
Un jour qu'il s'en allait, effroyablement doux,
Jaune, bavant la foi de sa bouche edentee,
Un jour qu'il s'en allait, <>,--un Mechant
Le prit rudement par son oreille benoite
Et lui jeta des mots affreux, en arrachant
Sa chaste robe noire autour de sa peau moite!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
What a seat he has on
horseback!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Tu te
rappelleras
la beaute des caresses,
La douceur du foyer et le charme des soirs,
Mere des souvenirs, maitresse des maitresses!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
V
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and
confounds
him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
How many bullets
bearest?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
+ 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 |
|
■r
LIFE'S ALCHEMY By Abigail Fithian Halsey
For love that came with laughter And left us all in tears,
The sting that
followed
after
And haunted all our years
With love's remembered laughter And unforgotten tears;
For life that came with singing And changed with time to pain, Till years the meaning bringing
Had turned our loss to gain And given back the singing Made sweeter by the pain;
For all that love has taken, For all that life has left,
Say not, "We are forsaken," Nor cry, "We are bereft.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Minerva turned them with her breath,
And
scattered
short, or wide, the points of death!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Pero qualunque cosa tanto pesa
per suo valor che tragga ogne bilancia,
sodisfar
non si puo con altra spesa.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The ever growing murmurs of
discontent
gave place
to cries for vengeance and unrepressed acts of hostility.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
_Letter in Verse_
Like boys that run behind the loaded wain
For the mere joy of riding back again,
When summer from the meadow carts the hay
And school hours leave them half a day to play;
So I with leisure on three sides a sheet
Of foolscap dance with poesy's
measured
feet,
Just to ride post upon the wings of time
And kill a care, to friendship turned in rhyme.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
385
`For in this world ther is no creature,
As to my doom, that ever saw ruyne
Straungere
than this, thorugh cas or aventure.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Ye who so many
thousand
kisses sung
Have read, deny male masculant I be?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Regret--though nothing dear
That I wot of, was toward in the wide world at his prime,
Or bloomed
elsewhere
than here,
To die with his decease, and leave a memory sweet, sublime,
Or mark him out in Time .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
To go directly to the etext collections, use FTP or any
Web browser to visit a Project
Gutenberg
mirror (mirror
sites are available on 7 continents; mirrors are listed
at http://promo.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Don't you think it's
pleasanter
out in the veranda?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
So falls the hour of twilight and of love
With
wizardry
to loose the hearts of men,
And there is nothing more in this great world
Than thou and I, and the blue dome of dusk.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
"In the
bedchamber
of the Countess.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Thus it comes
That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains,
Could bear no produce such as makes us glad,
And whatsoever lives, if shut from food,
Prolongs
its kind and guards its life no more.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
PUBLIC SQUARE IN MOSCOW
PUSHKIN enters,
surrounded
by the people
THE PEOPLE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The new tablet, which belongs to the same
period, also differs radically from the diction of the Ninevite text
in the few lines where they
duplicate
each other.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Had some man of might
Possessed her, he had called
perchance
to light
Her father's blood, and unknown vengeances
Risen on Aegisthus yet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Some, too fragile for winter winds,
The
thoughtful
grave encloses, --
Tenderly tucking them in from frost
Before their feet are cold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He did not understand the
domestic
emotions.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
was thine,
The
graceful
fabric and the fair design;
For loved by Pallas, Pallas did impart
To him the shipwright's and the builder's art.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Donations
are
tax-deductible to the maximum extent permitted by law.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
A UNE PASSANTE
La rue
assourdissante
autour de moi hurlait.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Phlaccus, at
Professor
Channing-Cheetah's
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Not so
decrepid
.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
What concerne they,
The
generall
cause, or is it a Fee-griefe
Due to some single brest?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
how
heedless
were the eyes
On whom the summer shone!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
org
Title: Eugene Oneguine [Onegin]
A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
Author: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Release Date: December 27, 2007 [eBook #23997]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EUGENE
ONEGUINE
[ONEGIN]***
E-text prepared by Stephen Leary
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|