A hundred waxen tapers shine
From silver sconces; softly pine
'Cello, fiddle, mandoline,
To music deftly wooed--
And dancers in cambric, satin, silk,
With
glancing
hair and cheeks like milk,
Wreathe, curtsey, intertwine.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
v
The
Universal
Man.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
How like a poet was my chum
When, sitting by his fire alone
Whilst
cheerily
the embers shone,
He "Benedetta" used to hum,
Or "Idol mio," and in the grate
Would lose his slippers or gazette.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous
semblions
entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au tournant d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le printemps viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Ronsard's Cassandra, was
Cassandra
Salviati, the daughter of an Italian banker.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
According
to Wang An-shih, his two
subjects
are wine and women.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"
The
Bodleian
Quatrain pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
THE permutation could not well be made,
But scandal would such practices upbraid;
In country
villages
each step is seen;
Thus, round the whisper went of what had been,
And placed at length the thorn where all was ease;
The pow'rs divine alone it could displease.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey
creature
on that head
She was so stricken to behold--you mind it?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
J'ai plus de
souvenirs
que si j'avais mille ans.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Among your heart-shaped leaves
Orange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing
Their little weak soft songs;
In the crooks of your branches
The bright eyes of song sparrows sitting on spotted eggs
Peer
restlessly
through the light and shadow
Of all Springs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
[590] Because the smell of garlic is not
inviting
to gallants.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Or whose great name in poets' heaven use,
For the more
countenance
to my active muse?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Those of Alverne the
greatest
court'sy have,
From Pinabel most quietly draw back.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
quid tamen ista fides, quid rari forma coloris,
quid uox mutandis ingeniosa sonis,
quid iuuat, ut datus es, nostrae
placuisse
puellae?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
King Marsilie's of his right hand bereft,
And the
Emperour
chased him enow from thence.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Have you
ulcers to hide like
Laespodias?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
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 |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
keeping this work in the same format with its
attached
full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut boulders to sand and drift--
your eyes have
pardoned
our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Any alternate format must include
the full Project Gutenberg(TM) License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
For forty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Thrice round about
The hollow ambush, striking with thy hand
Its sides thou went'st, and by his name didst call
Each prince of Greece
feigning
his consort's voice.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Cinesias was
not a dancer, but a
dithyrambic
poet, who declaimed with much
gesticulation and movement that one might almost think he was performing
this dance.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
'And what you have to do now
is to go out and sing that song for a while, to the tune of the Green
Bunch of Rushes, to
everyone
you meet, and to the old men themselves.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"
Took the olifant, that he would not let go,
Struck him on th' helm, that
jewelled
was with gold,
And broke its steel, his skull and all his bones,
Out of his head both the two eyes he drove;
Dead at his feet he has the pagan thrown:
After he's said: "Culvert, thou wert too bold,
Or right or wrong, of my sword seizing hold!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
In the dread scale
Which princes weighted with their horrid tale
Of craft and violence, and blood and ill,
And fire and shocking deeds, his sword was still
God's
counterpoise
displayed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
And see how dark the
backward
stream!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Oh you, who have founded so
illustrious
a city in the air, you
know not in what esteem men hold you and how many there are who burn with
desire to dwell in it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
dost thou murmur, that my span of time
Has join'd eternity's
unchanging
tide?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
IN THE GOLD ROOM
A HARMONY
HER ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale-leaves listlessly,
Or the
drifting
foam of a restless sea
When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
keeping this work in the same format with its
attached
full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
all that I behold
Within my Soul has lost its splendor & a
brooding
Fear
Shadows me oer & drives me outward to a world of woe
So waild she trembling before her own Created Phantasm*
{These 10 lines circled and lightly struck out as a block, restored in Erdman.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
First time, this,
for the
gleaming
blade that its glory fell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Retaking the Capital 359 All at once I hear of an edict of remorse1 4 once again coming from our sage court.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
discountenance
every one
among you who shall pretend to despise art and science.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Take up the steel, and show us if indeed
Rumour speak true," Right swift Orestes took
The Dorian blade, back from his
shoulders
shook
His brooched mantle, called on Pylades
To aid him, and waved back the thralls.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
And yet, forgive me, so strong are the
prepossessions of youth, that I must confess I pine for Vaucluse, even
whilst I
acknowledge
its inferiority to Italy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
We find him
returned
to Milan, and writing to Simonides on the 20th of
September.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
In that manuscript the
constant
forms are me, wee, yee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
With some hesitation I have
included
literal versions of six poems
(three of the "Seventeen Old Poems," "Autumn Wind," "Li Fu-j?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
--one, all eyes,
Philosopher!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
for the great triumph
That
stretches
many a mile.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Rodrigue
Your boldness is
followed
by ignoble pity:
You'll steal my honour yet fear to kill me!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
[78]
What has become of my
strength?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"
What bearing may we assume the
foregoing
couplet to have
upon Mr.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and
fleeting
grain!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Now, the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Colonel of a British
Infantry Regiment would be justly shocked at any comparison being made
between their
respective
charges.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
_ when my spirit slips
Down the great
darkness
from the mountain sky;
And those who shall behold me where I lie
Shall murmur: 'Look, you!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
--Is it not a fact that this report
Is artfully
concocted?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Drooping
blossom,
Gas-standards over
Spray out jingling tumult
Of white-hot rays.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
)
Walpurgisnacht
Harzgebirg
Gegend von Schierke und Elend
Faust.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Nec tamen illa mihi dextra deducta paterna
Fragrantem Assyrio venit odore domum,
Sed furtiva dedit muta
munuscula
nocte, 145
Ipsius ex ipso dempta viri gremio.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
20
And you feathered flute-players,
Who instructed you to fill
All the blossomy
orchards
now
With melodious desire?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
And you climbed yet
further!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The
clownish
mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
uiuerit_ O: _fouerit_ potest uideri legisse Agius
in Epicedio
Hathumodae
73, 4 (Poet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
They are _Two Stories of Prague_,
_The Touch of Life_ and _The Last_; three volumes of short stories; a
two-act drama, _The Daily Life_, points to a strong Maeterlinck
influence, and finally
_Stories
of God_.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
I'll teach the
villains!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
To whom he gave the lyre that sweetly sounded,
Which
skilfully
he held and played thereon.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
White and golden Lizzie stood,
Like a lily in a flood,--
Like a rock of blue-veined stone
Lashed by tides obstreperously,--
Like a beacon left alone
In a hoary roaring sea,
Sending up a golden fire,--
Like a fruit-crowned orange-tree
White with
blossoms
honey-sweet
Sore beset by wasp and bee,--
Like a royal virgin town
Topped with gilded dome and spire
Close beleaguered by a fleet
Mad to tug her standard down.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
In her embrace--it's by no means unusual--I've composed poems
And the hexameter's beat gently tapped out on her back,
Fingertips counting in time with the sweet
rhythmic
breath of her slumber.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
These at the foemen scaled, upon all hands,
Form cruel
garlands
for the paynim bands.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
''T was all I had,' she
stricken
gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!
| 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: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Therefore
they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The stedfast and enduring bone.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Silius neatly translates it,
"Turpe duci totam somno
consumere
noctem.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Its repression
of individuality, its insistence upon the necessity of
following
in the
footsteps of the classic poets, and of checking the outbursts of
imagination by the rules of common sense, simply incapacitated the poets
of the period from producing works of the highest order.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Peace and union, he was to remind
him, serve the interest of the losers, and only the
reputation
of the
winners.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Besides, he is
descended
from a noted Gaelic magician who
raised the 'dhoul' in Great Eliza's century, and he has a kind of
prescriptive right to hear tell of all kind of other-world creatures.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Unheard Midnight counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is
illuminated
by the dying embers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
At ale he slew not
comrade or kin; nor cruel his mood,
though of sons of earth his
strength
was greatest,
a glorious gift that God had sent
the splendid leader.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's
children
From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Brodie tells me that the
muir where
Shakspeare
lays Macbeth's witch-meeting is still
haunted--that the country folks won't pass it by night.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,
I sat a weeping: in the whole world wide
There was no one to ask me why I wept,--
And so I kept
Brimming
the water-lily cups with tears
Cold as my fears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a
necklace
wreathed with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|