There's cloud upon the hill-top and there 's mist deep down the hollow,
And fog among the rushes and the
rustling
sedge.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
He too, with Alfred de Musset, might have said
Quoi que nous
puissions
faire,
Je souffre; il est trop tard; le monde s'est fait vieux.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
In many guises didst thou come to me;
I saw thee by the maidens while they danced,
Phaon allured me with a look of thine,
In Anactoria I knew thy grace,
I looked at
Cercolas
and saw thine eyes;
But never wholly, soul and body mine,
Didst thou bid any love me as I loved.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
So, fold by fold,
Explore this mummy in the priestly cope,
Transmitted through the darks of time, to catch
The man within the wrappage, and discern
How he, an honest man, upon the watch
Full fifty years for what a man may learn,
Contrived to get just there; with what a snatch
Of old-world oboli he had to earn
The passage through; with what a drowsy sop,
To drench the busy barkings of his brain;
What ghosts of pale tradition, wreathed with hop
'Gainst wakeful thought, he had to entertain
For
heavenly
visions; and consent to stop
The clock at noon, and let the hour remain
(Without vain windings-up) inviolate
Against all chimings from the belfry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"
Answered
the Franks: "Now go we to the moot.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Almost every devout
admirer of the old bards, if
demanded
his opinion of their productions,
would mention vaguely, yet with perfect sincerity, a sense of dreamy,
wild, indefinite, and he would perhaps say, indefinable delight; on
being required to point out the source of this so shadowy pleasure,
he would be apt to speak of the quaint in phraseology and in general
handling.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
" There are other 'errata', which
remained
in the edition of
1849-50, e.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Voices
mysterious
far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in his ear,
"Simon Danz!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
The
incriminating
suggestion is that he meant to
insert his own name.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
We might still quote
special motives and vindicate each point; but we must needs leave
something to the capacity and
leniency
of our readers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Thus our terrestrial glories fade away,
Our
triumphs
pass the pageants of a day;
Our fields exchange their lords, our kingdoms fall,
And thrones are wrapt in Hades' funeral pall
Yet virtue seldom gains what vice had lost,
And oft the hopes of good desert are cross'd.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
a-na pa-ni- su
it-tam-ha-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti
iluEn-ki-du ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik
i-na si-pi-su
iluGilgamis
e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in
is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im
i- lu- du [50]
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu [51]
iluGilgamis u iluEn-ki- du
is-sa-ab-tu-u- ma
ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu
ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamis
i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri si-ip-su
ip-si-ih [52] us-sa-su- ma
i-ni-'i i-ra-az-zu
is-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-hu [53]
iluEn-ki-du a-na sa-si-im
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
ki-ma is-te-en-ma um-ma-ka
u- li- id- ka
ri-im-tum sa zu- pu-ri
ilat-Nin- sun- na
ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-es-su
sar-ru-tam sa ni-si
i-si-im-kum iluEn-lil
duppu 2 kam-ma
su-tu-ur e-li .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
I shunned his eyes, that
faithful
man's,
I shunned the toiling Hassan's glance.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Ah, who will stay these hungry tears,
Or still the want of
famished
years,
And crown with love my marriage-bed?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Love fills my heart, like my lover's breath
Filling the hollow flute, 10
Till the magic wood awakes and cries
With
remembrance
and joy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
The Lord of the harvest, He knoweth
Who knoweth the first and the last:
The Sower Who
patiently
soweth,
He scanneth the present and past:
He saith, "What thou hast, what remaineth, hold fast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Johnson has well remarked that
"to
circumscribe
poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of
the definer"--which shall exclude all gnomic and satiric verse, and so
debar the claims of Hesiod, Juvenal, and Boileau, it is impossible to
deny that Pope is a true poet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
`Wherfore
I wol deffyne in this matere,
That trewely, for ought I can espye, 835
Ther is no verray wele in this world here.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
'Think you're to be
congratulated
on this case.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
It
would, on the contrary, have been strange if these things had not
come to pass; and we should be justified in pronouncing them
highly probable even if we had no direct
evidence
on the subject.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Of course, we hope that you will support the Project
Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to
electronic
works by
freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of
this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with
the work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
148
In
wildernesse
he woned; ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of
numerous
humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He lay as one who lies and dreams
In a pleasant meadow-land,
The
watchers
watched him as he slept,
And could not understand
How one could sleep so sweet a sleep
With a hangman close at hand.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Then the kingly hero knows them for
his mother's birds, and joyfully prays: 'Ah, be my guides, if way there
be, and direct your aery passage into the groves [195-230]where the
rich bough
overshadows
the fertile ground!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Had one of those, whose credulous pietie
Thought, that a Soule one might
discerne
and see
Goe from a body,'at this sepulcher been,
And, issuing from the sheet, this body seen, 20
He would have justly thought this body a soule,
If not of any man, yet of the whole.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
But deadly hate,
Repulsive frowns, and love of stern debate,
Hamilcar mark'd, who at a
distance
stood,
And eyed the friendly pair in hostile mood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Notre ame est un trois-mats cherchant son Icarie;
Une voix
retentit
sur le pont: << Ouvre l'oeil!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Kuhn ist das Muhen,
Herrlich
der Lohn!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling
at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
3
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by purchase a large
six column tablet nearly complete,
carrying
originally, according to
the scribal note, 240 lines of text.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
His
principal work is the "Gulistan," or "Rose Garden," a work which
has been
translated
into almost every European tongue.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
If the lorn bird complain, or
rustling
sweep
Soft summer airs o'er foliage waving slow,
Or the hoarse brook come murmuring down the steep,
Where on the enamell'd bank I sit below
With thoughts of love that bid my numbers flow;
'Tis then I see her, though in earth she sleep!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
freely distributed in machine
readable
form accessible by the widest
array of equipment including outdated equipment.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Canto XXI
La sete natural che mai non sazia
se non con l'acqua onde la femminetta
samaritana domando la grazia,
mi travagliava, e
pungeami
la fretta
per la 'mpacciata via dietro al mio duca,
e condoleami a la giusta vendetta.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
In a vision
announced
he to him then
A battle, should be fought against him yet,
Significance of griefs demonstrated.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
'Tis morn: with gold the verdant
mountain
glows; 405
More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
"
He cried, leapt up in wild alarm,
Ran to my Comrade, shelter took
Beneath the
startled
mother's arm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
See you not yon hills and dales,
The sun shines on sae
brawlie!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
He will kill
Brahmins
there, in Kali's name,
And please the thugs, and blood-drunk of the earth.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
'
Criseyde
answerde, `Never the bet for yow,
Fox that ye been, god yeve youre herte care!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Yet he at length, time to himself best known,
Remembring Abraham by some wond'rous call
May bring them back repentant and sincere,
And at their passing cleave the Assyrian flood,
While to their native land with joy they hast,
As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft,
When to the promis'd land thir Fathers pass'd;
To his due time and
providence
I leave them.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
For Weakness, in freedom, grows stronger than
Strength
with a chain;
And Error, in freedom, will come to lamenting his stain,
Till freely repenting he whiten his spirit again;
And Friendship, in freedom, will blot out the bounding of race;
And straight Law, in freedom, will curve to the rounding of grace;
And Fashion, in freedom, will die of the lie in her face;
And Desire flame white on the sense as a fire on a height,
And Sex flame white in the soul as a star in the night,
And Marriage plight sense unto soul as the two-colored light
Of the fire and the star shines one with a duplicate might;
And Science be known as the sense making love to the All,
And Art be known as the soul making love to the All,
And Love be known as the marriage of man with the All --
Till Science to knowing the Highest shall lovingly turn,
Till Art to loving the Highest shall consciously burn,
Till Science to Art as a man to a woman shall yearn,
-- Then morn!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Thirteen
a month ago!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Howe'er, no further went his ease of mind;
Oh, fatal
science!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
noirs
compagnons
sans oreille et sans yeux,
Voyez venir a vous un mort libre et joyeux;
Philosophes viveurs, fils de la pourriture,
A travers ma ruine allez donc sans remords,
Et dites-moi s'il est encor quelque torture
Pour ce vieux corps sans ame et mort parmi les morts?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
CXLIX
You'd seen Rollant aswoon there in his seat,
And Oliver, who unto death doth bleed,
So much he's bled, his eyes are dim and weak;
Nor clear enough his vision, far or near,
To recognise
whatever
man he sees;
His companion, when each the other meets,
Above the helm jewelled with gold he beats,
Slicing it down from there to the nose-piece,
But not his head; he's touched not brow nor cheek.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
e launde, ledande his gomnes,
[B] He hat3
forfaren
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
And a fair troop of ladies gather'd there,
Still of this earth, with grace and honour crown'd,
To mark if ever Death
remorseful
were.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
(Vulcan had not been one
thousandth
so vexed to discover his playmate
Under his meshes ensnared, caught with his own lusty friend,
Lying just as the wiles of the net at the most crucial moment
Deftly embraced their embrace, trapping their instant of joy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Blessed the key which pass'd within my heart,
And,
quickening
my dull spirit, set it free
From its old heavy chain,
And from my bosom banish'd many a sigh.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
' 740
And with that word he gan un-do a trappe,
And Troilus he
broughte
in by the lappe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
If you do not agree to abide by all
the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works in your possession.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The old strange fragrance filled the air,
A fragrance like the garden pink,
But tinged with vague
medicinal
stink
Of camphor, soap, new sponges, blent
With chloroform and violet scent.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
no trav'ler's tale of him
Will gain his consort's credence, or his son's;
For wand'rers, wanting entertainment, forge
Falsehoods for bread, and
wilfully
deceive.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Yee mychtie Goddes, and is yor
favoures
sente
As thous faste dented to a loade of peyne?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
There, through the summer day
Cool streams are laving:
There, while the
tempests
sway,
Scarce are boughs waving;
There thy rest shalt thou take,
Parted for ever,
Never again to wake
Never, O never!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Double columns
bordered
with red lines.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
"
There is internal
evidence
that many of the poems were simply
spontaneous flashes of insight, apparently unrelated to outward
circumstance.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Petrarch
began studying Greek by the
reading of Plato.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both
honoured
your loveliness,
The Fates destroyed you, and you are but dust below.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
þǣr se snottra bād, 1313; ēode weorð
Denum
æðeling
tō yppan, _the prince_ (Bēowulf), _honored by the Danes, went
to the high seat_, 1815; ēode .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
And the longer he swore the madder he got,
And he riz and he walked to the stable lot,
And he hollered to Tom to come thar and hitch
Fur to emigrate
somewhar
whar land was rich,
And to quit raisin' cock-burrs, thistles and sich,
And a wastin' ther time on the cussed land.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
But alas for the
stifling
mist of lies!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
the years
Have lost their ancient leader, and no word
Breaks from the
voiceless
tripod on our ears:
While as a ruined mother in some spasm
Bears a base child and loathes it, so our best enthusiasm
Genders unlawful children, Anarchy
Freedom's own Judas, the vile prodigal
Licence who steals the gold of Liberty
And yet has nothing, Ignorance the real
One Fraticide since Cain, Envy the asp
That stings itself to anguish, Avarice whose palsied grasp
Is in its extent stiffened, moneyed Greed
For whose dull appetite men waste away
Amid the whirr of wheels and are the seed
Of things which slay their sower, these each day
Sees rife in England, and the gentle feet
Of Beauty tread no more the stones of each unlovely street.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
If
sulphurous
light had shone from this vile well
One might have said it was a mouth of hell,
So large the trap that by some sudden blow
A man might backward fall and sink below.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
and lo,
Debaucheries
and every breed of sloth!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Propitious to my wants a vest supply
To guard the wretched from the inclement sky:
So may the gods, who heaven and earth control,
Crown the chaste wishes of thy virtuous soul,
On thy soft hours their choicest blessings shed;
Blest with a husband be thy bridal bed;
Blest be thy husband with a
blooming
race,
And lasting union crown your blissful days.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Girvan is the name of the river that suits the idea of the stanza
best, but Lugar is the most agreeable
modulation
of syllables.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Both you that
understand
stringed instruments,
And how to mingle words and notes together
So artfully, that all the Art's but Speech
Delighted with its own music; and you that carry
The long twisted horn, and understand
The heady notes that, being without words,
Can hurry beyond Time and Fate and Change.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And didst thou bear,
Bear in thy bitter pain,
To life, thy
murderer?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
"
Up starts a palace; lo, th' obedient base }
Slopes at its foot, the woods its sides embrace, }
The silver Thames
reflects
its marble face.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
as early as I knew
This town, I had the sense to hate it too;
Yet here; as even in hell, there must be still
One giant-vice, so
excellently
ill,
That all beside, one pities, not abhors;
As who knows Sappho, smiles at other whores.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
After what
Rodrigue
has said today,
Who is brave enough to make a play?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The letter came
This is my faith, and my mind's heritage
This is the ballad of Langemarck
This was the gleam then that lured from far
Those who have stood for thy cause when the dark was around thee
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay
Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea
Three hundred
thousand
men, but not enough
To the Judge of Right and Wrong
'T was in the piping time of peace
Under our curtain of fire
Under the tow-path past the barges
Unflinching hero, watchful to foresee
Was there love once?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Faltered
the column, spent with shot and sword;
Its bright hope blanched with sudden pallor;
While Hancock's trefoil bloomed in triple fame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Page 29
60
he
prechede
hire wi?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
I wish I had the powers of Guido to do them
justice!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|