One day he asked her
physician how she was, and was told by him that her condition was very
dangerous: on that occasion he composed the following sonnet:[E]--
This lovely spirit, if ordain'd to leave
Its mortal tenement before its time,
Heaven's fairest
habitation
shall receive
And welcome her to breathe its sweetest clime.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
And when Sumter sinks at last
From the heavens, that shrink aghast,
Hell shall rise in grim
derision
and make room!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Round dread Alcathous now the battle rose;
On every side the steely circle grows;
Now batter'd breast-plates and hack'd helmets ring,
And o'er their heads
unheeded
javelins sing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
The
nuthatch and chickadee flitting in company through the dells of the
wood, the one harshly scolding at the intruder, the other with a faint
lisping note enticing him on; the jay screaming in the orchard; the
crow cawing in unison with the storm; the partridge, like a russet
link extended over from autumn to spring, preserving unbroken the
chain of summers; the hawk with warrior-like firmness abiding the
blasts of winter; the robin[4] and lark lurking by warm springs in the
woods; the familiar snowbird culling a few seeds in the garden or a
few crumbs in the yard; and occasionally the shrike, with
heedless
and
unfrozen melody bringing back summer again:--
His steady sails he never furls
At any time o' year,
And perching now on Winter's curls,
He whistles in his ear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
"
Fiercely the orderly rode down the slope of the
corn-field--scarred and forlorn,
Rutted by violent wheels, and scathed by the
shot that had plowed it in scorn;
Fiercely, and burning with wrath for the sight
of his comrades crushed at a blow,
Flung in broken shapes on the ground like
ruined memorials of woe:
These were the men whom at
daybreak
he knew,
but never again could know.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
On his return to
Edinburgh
he had to bide the time of his bookseller
and the public: the impression of his poems, extending to two thousand
eight hundred copies, was sold widely: much of the money had to come
from a distance, and Burns lingered about the northern metropolis,
expecting a settlement with Creech, and with the hope that those who
dispensed his country's patronage might remember one who then, as now,
was reckoned an ornament to the land.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Merits all praise, and to depart from it
Would be
departing
from the truth.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
1530
De la
fontaine
m'apressai,
Quant ge fui pres, si m'abessai
Por veoir l'iaue qui coroit,
Et la gravele qui paroit
Au fons plus clere qu'argens fins,
De la fontaine c'est la fins.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Their leader was false Sextus,
That wrought the deed of shame:
With
restless
pace and haggard face
To his last field he came.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
We shall not spend a large expence of time,
Before we reckon with your
seuerall
loues,
And make vs euen with you.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
so that Love winged with a fan
Paints me there, lulling the fold, flute in hand,
Princess, name me the
shepherd
of your smiles.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1
Trillion
eBooks!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman
possessing
reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
I alone, for your love, have preserved her: 1020
And pitying both her
distress
and your fears,
Despite myself, I've served to explain her tears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand,
As erst we plucked the apple: we must wait
Until he gives death as he gave us life,
Nor murmur faintly o'er the primal gift
Because we spoilt its
sweetness
with our sin.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Here and there he can strike out a
phrase at red-heat, as when he christens Shakespeare "the one Proteus of
the fire and flood"; or he can elaborate subtly, as when he notes the
judgment of Shakespeare, observable in every scene of the "Tempest," "still
preparing, still inviting, and still gratifying, like a finished piece of
music"; or he can strike us with the wit of the pure intellect, as when he
condemns certain work for being "as trivial in thought and yet enigmatic in
expression, as if Echo and the Sphinx had laid their heads
together
to
construct it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
When the hills are all flat
And the rivers are all dry,
When it lightens and
thunders
in winter,
When it rains and snows in summer,
When Heaven and Earth mingle--
Not till then will I part from you.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
All he
believes
in is "an humbler heaven," where he shall be free from
the evils of this life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE
POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Ye Ioves first to thilke effectes glade, 15
Thorugh which that thinges liven alle and be,
Comeveden, and amorous him made
On mortal thing, and as yow list, ay ye
Yeve him in love ese or adversitee;
And in a
thousand
formes doun him sente 20
For love in erthe, and whom yow liste, he hente.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Theramenes
My lord, since when did you fear the proximity,
Of
peaceful
scenes, so dear to you from infancy, 30
Whose haunts I've often seen you prefer before
The tumultuous pomp of Athens and her court?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
And well the primal pioneer
Knew the strong task to it assigned,
Patient through Heaven's
enormous
year
To build in matter home for mind.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
_Perch' io t' abbia
guardato
di menzogna.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Far thee well Lord,
I would not be the
Villaine
that thou think'st,
For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe,
And the rich East to boot
Mal.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
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 |
|
Fair fortunes to the
mountaineer!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Count Henry, after a
successful
reign, was succeeded by his infant son,
Don Alonzo-Henry, who, having surmounted the dangers which threatened
his youth, became the founder of the Portuguese monarchy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
tum meae, siquid loquar audiendum,
uocis accedet bona pars et 'o sol
pulcer, o
laudande!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Says the tinker, I've brawled till no breath I have got
And not met with
twopence
to purchase a pot.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The cold
Sheetes that you lie in, with the
watching
candle,
That ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
CXXVIII
Turning about to him the victoress cried,
Laughing, "This lady I to thee present,
And the more beauty is in her descried,
The more that she is thine I am content,
Now in my place her
champion
and her guide.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
On the morrow, just as I was busy composing an elegy, and I was biting
my pen as I searched for a rhyme,
Chvabrine
tapped at my window.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The tribe prophetic with the eyes of fire
Went forth last night; their little ones at rest
Each on his mother's back, with his desire
Set on the ready
treasure
of her breast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Love-poetry
addressed
by a man to a woman ceases after the Han dynasty;
but a conventional type of love-poem, in which the poet (of either sex)
speaks in the person of a deserted wife or concubine, continues to be
popular.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
*** In the
following
notes the _LXXX Sermons &c.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The popular cry of our time is: 'Let us return to Life and Nature, they
will
recreate
Art for us and send the red blood coursing through her
veins; they will shoe her feet with swiftness and make her hand strong.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
But in a manner not yet understood of the world he
regarded sin and suffering as being in themselves
beautiful
holy things
and modes of perfection.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
I am convinced of the
innocence
of your betrothed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
_ Love,
entering
first through you an easy part,
Took up his seat, where now supreme he reigns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent
permitted by U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
What I have said, and am going to add, may probably, my
good friend Maternus, be unwelcome to your ear; and yet I must take
the liberty to ask you, if
Agamemnon
[a] or Jason speaks in your piece
with dignity of language, what useful consequence follows from it?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Thus
dissension
preceded victory.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing
on a harp of gold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Wilbur,
letter from,
containing
notices of Mr.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Then draw the
princess
with her golden locks,
.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
But my mind was weary Almost as the twilight of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his
everlasting
talk.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because -- because if he should die
While I was gone, and I -- too late --
Should reach the heart that wanted me;
If I should
disappoint
the eyes
That hunted, hunted so, to see,
And could not bear to shut until
They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;
If I should stab the patient faith
So sure I 'd come -- so sure I 'd come,
It listening, listening, went to sleep
Telling my tardy name, --
My heart would wish it broke before,
Since breaking then, since breaking then,
Were useless as next morning's sun,
Where midnight frosts had lain!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He passed through Kiukiang on his way,
and
released
the prisoners there.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Or so much as it needes,
To dew the
Soueraigne
Flower, and drowne the Weeds:
Make we our March towards Birnan.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
My Nanie's charming, sweet, an' young;
Nae artfu' wiles to win ye, O:
May ill befa' the
flattering
tongue
That wad beguile my Nanie, O.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or me
They may take the trifle
Termed
mortality!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And fro this world,
almighty
god I preye,
Delivere hir sone; I can no-more seye.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Control the present: all beside
Flows like a river seaward borne,
Now rolling on its placid tide,
Now whirling massy trunks uptorn,
And waveworn crags, and farms, and stock,
In chaos blent, while hill and wood
Reverberate to the enormous shock,
When savage rains the
tranquil
flood
Have stirr'd to madness.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
I own
This may sound strangely: but when, dearest girl,
Thou seest it for my happiness, no pearl
Will
trespass
down those cheeks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
But these
were not the
promises
thou gavest me idly of old, this was not what thou
didst bid me hope for, but the blithe bride-bed, hymenaeal happiness: all
empty air, blown away by the breezes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy raiments and thy ebony cross
affright
me!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The
philosophers
did
insolently, to challenge only to themselves that which the greatest
generals and gravest counsellors never durst.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
L'une,
insidieuse
et ferme,
Disait: << La Terre est un gateau plein de douceur;
Je puis (et ton plaisir serait alors sans terme!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Or, beyond Lethe lulled to rest,
Hath the bard, by
indifference
blest,
Callous to all on earth become--
Is the world to him sealed and dumb?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
)
II Conte Domenico Morosini (see _Letters_, Venezia, 1829) was the author
of two tragedies, _Medea in Corinto_ and _Giulio Sabino_,
published
in
1806.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
The
poor girl felt that she had in a sense been an
accomplice
in the death
of her benefactress.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From trampled
thickets
of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
The maids beside
Tattiana
keep--
Men opposite.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Yet pierced Amphimedon the Prince's wrist,
But slightly, a skin-wound, and o'er his shield 320
Ctesippus
reach'd the shoulder of the good
Eumaeus, but his glancing weapon swift
O'erflew the mark, and fell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
Quoth she, and
whistles
thrice.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
From every wight as fer as is the cloude
He was, so wel
dissimulen
he coude.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The
traveler
dreams,
The tree-ice gleams,
The blue jay screams
In angry mood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
High on the topmost
thrilling
of the surge
I saw, afar, two hosts to battle urge.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And near Albano's scarce divided waves
Shine from a sister valley;--and afar
The Tiber winds, and the broad ocean laves
The Latian coast where sprung the Epic war,
'Arms and the Man,' whose reascending star
Rose o'er an empire,--but beneath thy right
Tully reposed from Rome;--and where yon bar
Of girdling
mountains
intercepts the sight,
The Sabine farm was tilled, the weary bard's delight.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
'Tis said, a child was in her womb,
As now to any eye was plain;
She was with child, and she was mad,
Yet often she was sober sad
From her
exceeding
pain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
>>
Plonge tes yeux dans les yeux fixes
Des
Satyresses
ou des Nixes,
La Dent dit: << Pense a ton devoir!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
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: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf
observes
with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
XERXES
Alas, alas, they came, their eyes surveyed
Ancestral
Athens on that fatal day.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Go, speed the stars of Thought
On to their shining goals:--
The sower
scatters
broad his seed,
The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Such pretty cheeks and sparkling eyes he thought,
Had ne'er till then his roving fancy caught;
The girl was hir'd, but seemingly with pain,
Since PRUDENCE ultimately might complain,
That (maid and master both so very young)
'Twould not be
wonderful
if things went wrong.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|