It would be the prudish affectation of silly pride in me to say that I
do not need, or would not be
indebted
to a political friend; at the
same time, Sir, I by no means lay my affairs before you thus, to hook
my dependent situation on your benevolence.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
But I pursue the fading god in vain,
For conquering Night makes firm her dark domain,
Mist and gloom fall, and terrors glide between,
And graveyard odours in the shadow swim,
And my faint
footsteps
on the marsh's rim,
Bruise the cold snail and crawling toad unseen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
But sith I see my lord mot nedes dye,
And I with him, here I me shryve, and seye 440
That
wikkedly
ye doon us bothe deye.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
, and was a
Divining
Cup.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Mine, by the grave's repeal
Titled, confirmed, --
delirious
charter!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Throstle and
blackbird
stiff with cold
Hop on the frozen grass;
Among the aged, upright oaks
The dun deer slowly pass.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Strange scenes mere shadows are to me,
Vague
impersonifying
things;
I love with my old haunts to be
By quiet woods and gravel springs,
Where little pebbles wear as smooth
As hermits' beads by gentle floods,
Whose noises do my spirits soothe
And warm them into singing moods.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Le
souvenir
massif, royale et lourde tour,
La couronne, et son coeur, meurtri comme une peche,
Est mur, comme son corps, pour le savant amour.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
For far behind the invading rout
These two were left alone;
And in the waste their wildest shout
Seemed but a
smothered
groan.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
For our king is
returned
as from prison,
The old king, to be master again,
Our beloved in justice re-risen:
With guile he hath slain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
E noi
lasciammo
lor cosi 'mpacciati.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Then about that barrow the battle-keen rode,
atheling-born, a band of twelve,
lament to make, to mourn their king,
chant their dirge, and their
chieftain
honor.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
THE Enchantress Neria flourished in those days;
E'en Circe, she excelled in Satan's ways;
The storms she made obedient to her will,
And regulated with
superior
skill;
In chains the destinies she kept around;
The gentle zephyrs were her sages found;
The winds, her lacqueys, flew with rapid course;
Alert, but obstinate, with pow'rful force.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
WILKE,
FRIEDRICH
WILHELM.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Else why be the parents' 15
Pleasure
frustrated
aye by the false flow of tears
Poured in profusion amid illuminate genial chamber?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
net
Title: The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Release Date: January 18, 2010 [EBook #31015]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK WORKS OF E.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the
same as _shue_, 'to frighten away poultry,' and
Cunningham
accepts
this without question.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
[Footnote 10: Take a candle and go alone to a looking-glass;
eat an apple before it, and some
traditions
say you should
comb your hair all the time; the face of your conjungal
companion, to be, will be seen in the glass, as if peeping
over your shoulder.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
He passed his
mornings
in the smoking-room.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Thus I could easily exculpate myself, for not
only had we not been forbidden to make sorties against the enemy, but
were
encouraged
in so doing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Trigon & cubes divide the elements in finite bonds
Multitudes without number work incessant: the hewn stone
Is placd in beds of mortar mingled with the ashes of Vala
{Alternate
reading of "on" for "in.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Are you
faithful
to things?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease,
Thy breast alone no
lenitives
appease.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
But this, Maternus, is no apology for you,
whose conduct is so extraordinary, that, though formed by nature to
reach the summit of perfection [d], you choose to wander into devious
paths, and rest
contented
with an humble station in the vale beneath.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
But hark, a troop of new woe comes this way,
Making the street to ring and the stones wet
With cried despair and
brackish
agony.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
No more thou dreamest of a peace reserved alone for thee,
While friends are fighting for thy cause beyond the guardian sea:
The battle that they wage is thine; thou fallest if they fall;
The swollen flood of
Prussian
pride will sweep unchecked o'er all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves And the great garths and stacks and quiet farms, And all the tawny and the crimson leaves,
Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms Under the star of dusk through
stealing
mist
_ And blest the earth and gone while no man wist.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
If you are outside the United States, check
the laws of your country in
addition
to the terms of this agreement
before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or
creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project
Gutenberg-tm work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Hir fader hath hir in his armes nome, 190
And tweynty tyme he kiste his
doughter
swete,
And seyde, `O dere doughter myn, wel-come!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
And in two
Rubaiyat
of
Mons.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through
branches
bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a mortal thing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The Germans whom one party
summoned
to their aid had forced the yoke
of slavery on allies and enemies alike.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
e twys, &
faythful
I fynde ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Your strong
possession
much more than your right,
Or else it must go wrong with you and me;
So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
No board
inscribed
the needy to allure
Hung there, no bush proclaimed to old and poor
And desolate, "Here you will find a friend!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Hence nor curb
Avails you, nor
reclaiming
call.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
MARVOIL Notes
The
Personae
arc :
Arnaut of Marvoil, a troubadour, date 1170-1200.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
There are (I scarce can think it, but am told),
There are, to whom my satire seems too bold:
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,
And
something
said of Chartres much too rough.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
is the same, the same,
Perplexed and ruffled by life's
strategy?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Note: See Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' for an
expression
of like sentiment.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Now was the Sun in Western cadence low
From Noon, and gentle Aires due at thir hour
To fan the Earth now wak'd, and usher in
The Eevning coole when he from wrauth more coole
Came the mild Judge and Intercessor both
To sentence Man: the voice of God they heard
Now walking in the Garden, by soft windes
Brought to thir Ears, while day declin'd, they heard
And from his presence hid
themselves
among 100
The thickest Trees, both Man and Wife, till God
Approaching, thus to Adam call'd aloud.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
None of them had achieved any martial
exploit, such as those by which Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus,
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus, Aulus
Cornelius
Cossus, and, above
all, the great Camillus, had extorted the reluctant esteem of the
multitude.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
They were
purified
by death--they were taught and exalted.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
qui tamen haut uni
patefecit
limina uati
nec sua Vergilio permisit carmina soli.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
, Freedom
supporting
the
World.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing
in a jar.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Unseen by these, the king his entry made:
And, prostrate now before Achilles laid,
Sudden (a
venerable
sight!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
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 |
|
For her he once did Nature's tribute pay ;
For these his life adventured every day ;
And 'twould be found, could we his
thoughts
have
cast,
Their griefs struck deepest, if Eliza's last.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
, _sorrowful way, an
undertaking
that brings sorrow_, i.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
let none linger, else this hand
Ruthless
will hale you by your tresses hence.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Great good treasure his knights have placed in pound,
Silver and gold and many a
jewelled
gown.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
This edition of the song I got from Tom Niel, of
facetious
fame, in
Edinburgh.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
--
The crocus stirs her lids,
Rhodora's cheek is crimson, --
She's
dreaming
of the woods.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
A Pretty Boy_
DVM dubitat natura marem
faceretne
puellam,
factus es, o pulcher, paene puella, puer.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
precious
relic of that time--
For my old age, it doth remain with thee
To make it what thou wilt.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
'Tis certain: thou hast lost a
faithful
wife.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Whose
conquests
are the gains of all mankind?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
In Art,
the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not
because they
appreciate
it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Ay, very like: and the event will rouse
Such work in the water where your comfort sails,
More than my fortune will to pieces blow;
You too I think will get some
perilous
tossing
From what proves my destruction.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
See they
encounter
thee with their harts thanks
Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st,
Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure
The Table round.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
They listen to the beat
Of the
hammered
bell,
And think of the feet
Which beat upon their tops;
But what they think they do not tell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
But at His
Excellency Hsu's house I was offered the hand of his grand-daughter,
and
lingered
there during the frosts of three autumns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
SEMI-CHORUS
How should I scan Zeus' mighty will,
The depth of counsel
undescried?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
Proudly the war bride, ending so,
Sank
breathless
in the dumb white snow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
who found
Thy long fair fields
ploughed
up as hostile ground,
Disputed foot by foot, till Treason, still
His only victor, from Montmartre's hill[293]
Looked down o'er trampled Paris!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
is;
his
martirdom
was strong I-wys,
Of sorou?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
non rastros patietur humus, non uinea falcem;
robustus quoque iam tauris iuga soluet arator;
nec uarios discet mentiri lana colores,
ipse sed in pratis aries iam suaue rubenti
murice, iam croceo mutabit uellera luto;
sponte sua sandyx
pascentis
uestiet agnos.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
We wish it to be clearly understood that we do not represent an exclusive
artistic sect; we publish our work
together
because of mutual artistic
sympathy, and we propose to bring out our coöperative volume each year for
a short term of years, until we have made a place for ourselves and our
principles such as we desire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
315
And right as Aleyn, in the Pleynt of Kinde,
Devyseth
Nature of aray and face,
In swich aray men mighten hir ther finde.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
In the place where we met we had no lions to fear, and the study of
philosophy
served us for a blind.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
So how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The monastery bell, the only one that still hangs
in its ruined
Byzantine
tower, begins to call to prayers, and one near
and one afar, some with sharp metallic notes, and some with solemn,
muffled tones, the other bells of the hillside towns reply.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
|
But I have told you a
thousand
times what I want.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
holding Thee in sight,
I'll drain this cup of gall,
And scale with step resolved that
dangerous
height,
Which rather seems a fall.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
not
completely
and for ever, but as well as
most of us learn such lessons.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
"
Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;--
"Who unto the truth flings open our gates,
Or fashions new thoughts from the light of a star;
Or forges with craft of his finger and brain
Some marvelous weapon we copy in vain;
Or chants to the winds a wild song that shall
wander forever
undying?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Do you observe that monk among the train,
Who pours from his great throat the roaring bass,
As a
cathedral
spout pours out the rain,
And this way turns his rubicund, round face?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
THE
ADVENTURER
SETS OUT.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Our selfe will mingle with Society,
And play the humble Host:
Our
Hostesse
keepes her State, but in best time
We will require her welcome
La.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
As Christ in the parable of the rich young man
demands the
abandonment
of all treasures, so in this book the poet sees
the coming of the Kingdom, the fulfilment of all our longings for a
nearness to God when we have become simple again like little children
and poor in possessions like God Himself.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
But in cases where the spelling affects the
metre, we find that the printed text and Milton's manuscript closely
correspond; and it is upon its value in determining the metre, quite as
much as its
antiquarian
interest, that I should base a justification of
this reprint.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
What a
picture!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|