And one thinks of Rainer Maria Rilke, young, blond, with his
slender
aristocratic
figure, the slightly bent-forward figure of one who
on solitary walks meditates much and intensely, with his sensitive full
mouth and the "firm structure of the eyebrow gladly sunk in the shadow
of contemplation," the face full of dreams and with an expression of
listening to some distant music.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Koeppel
suggests
nis for næs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
To the tally of my soul
Loud and strong kept up the grey-brown bird,
With pure,
deliberate
notes, spreading, filling the night.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
" -- 665
`Right so fare I, unhappily for me;
I love oon best, and that me
smerteth
sore;
And yet, paraunter, can I rede thee,
And not my-self; repreve me no more.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The
mornings
blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
10 posuit _niger an albus_,
licet suspicari
Quintilianum
Catulli uerba inuerso ordine _ater
an albus_ legisse
XCIV
Mentula moechatur.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
5 From the Capital
Secretly
Making My Way to Fengxiang and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one successfully got back.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
It was April fair on the Flanders Fields,
But the
dreadest
April then
That ever the years, in their fateful flight,
Had brought to this world of men.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
It is comprised of three parts; the stock, which is
the hinder thigh bone of a sheep, such as you see in a mutton ham; the
horn, which is a common Highland cow's horn, cut off at the smaller
end, until the
aperture
be large enough to admit the stock to be
pushed up through the horn until it be held by the thicker end of the
thigh-bone; and lastly, an oaten reed exactly cut and notched like
that which you see every shepherd boy have, when the corn-stems are
green and full grown.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
<
vivo ten vai cosi
parlando
onesto,
piacciati di restare in questo loco.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
[119] Cleon was
reproached
by his enemies with paying small attention to
the regular payment of the sailors.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Antiquest felt at noon
When August, burning low,
Calls forth this
spectral
canticle,
Repose to typify.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
ou
misseist
hym ou?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
But it shal not
bifallen
as ye speke;
And god to-forn, and ferther over this,
I wot my fader wys and redy is;
And that he me hath bought, as ye me tolde, 965
So dere, I am the more un-to him holde.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Platte changed first,
snatched
a watch, looked in the
glass, settled his tie, and ran.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
--I am dazed,
See the dew is on the grass,
Wakened
butterflies
amazed
Follow thee as on we pass.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
I see it's now high time I
stirred!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
O tell me of the poor
unfortunate!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
No boast can be from breed of Grendel,
any on earth, for that uproar at dawn,
from the longest-lived of the
loathsome
race
in fleshly fold!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Says Chemubles "My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And
Durendal
I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
[When Burns wrote these
touching
lines, he was staying with Sir
William Murray, of Ochtertyre, during one of his Highland tours.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
]
[Sidenote E: Each knight of the
brotherhood
agrees to wear a bright green
belt,]
[Sidenote F: for Gawayne's sake,]
[Sidenote G: who ever more honoured it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Still, at her summons, round her
Unfading
spring ye see.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Around it boys and
unwedded
girls chant
hymns and joyfully lay their hand on the rope.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
In
classical
mythology she is the daughter of
Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (earth), and the wife of Oceanus.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
And chill the breeze
Whistled upon the glassy endless seas,
Where naked feet on, on for ever went,
With naught to eat, and not a
sheltering
tent.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
org
This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm,
including how to make donations to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to
subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Ah,
Postumus!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
This
edition is just from the press; and in my gratitude to the dead, and
my respect for the living (fame belies you, my lord, if you possess
not the same dignity of man, which was your noble brother's
characteristic feature), I had
destined
a copy for the Earl of
Glencairn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
It is a thirsty season, Virgil mine:
But would you taste the grape's
Calenian
juice,
Client of noble youths, to earn your wine
Some nard you must produce.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
skich,
Biblioteka
Narodowa, 1975, Wikimedia Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Along the garden-wall the bees
With hairy bellies pass between
The
staminate
and pistilate,
Blest office of the epicene.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
de deo Socratis 120 _qui
signorum
ortus
et obitus comperit_: _bitus_ B m.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever
building
mansions new,
Nor thinking of the mansion of the tomb.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
II
For who imposture can endure,
A constant harping on one tune,
Serious endeavours to assure
What everybody long has known;
Ever to hear the same replies
And
overcome
antipathies
Which never have existed, e'en
In little maidens of thirteen?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
XXII
And plainly and more plainly,
Above that
glimmering
line,
Now might ye see the banners
Of twelve fair cities shine;
But the banner of proud Clusium
Was highest of them all,
The terror of the Umbrian,
The terror of the Gaul.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
I am startled--
a split leaf
crackles
on the paved floor--
I am anguished--defeated.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
I would to God my name
were not so
terrible
to the enemy as it is.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
No one
questions
or troubles to know.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
555
Eternal Spirit of the
chainless
Mind (_Sonnet on Chillon_), iv.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
The stunning stroke his stubborn nerves unbound:
Loud o'er the fields his ringing arms resound:
The scornful dame her
conquest
views with smiles,
And, glorying, thus the prostrate god reviles:
"Hast thou not yet, insatiate fury!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"Some year or more ago, I s'pose,
I roamed from Maine to Floridy,
And, -- see where them
Palmettos
grows?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The reference may be to a review of
the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, which
appeared
in the _British
Review_, January, 1818, or to a more recent and, naturally, most hostile
notice of _Don Juan_ (No.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
" Then, wandering,
Lordly he
traversed
courts and corridors,
Paced beneath vaults of gold on shining floors,
Glanced at the throne deserted, stalked from hall
To hall--green, yellow, crimson--empty all!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Then
suddenly
the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
--happy you could make
The man, whose
constancy
no perils shake,
What would you more?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
This
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
To
Rencesvals
I go, and Rollanz, he
Nor Oliver may scape alive from me;
The dozen peers are doomed to martyry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
let the love of our one Author win,
Some mercy for a
contrite
humble heart:
For, if her poor frail mortal dust I loved
With loyalty so wonderful and long,
Much more my faith and gratitude for thee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
a33e 3our-self be
talenttyf
to take hit to your-seluen,
[C] Whil mony so bolde yow aboute vpon bench sytten,
352 ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Das zischt und quirlt, das zieht und
plappert!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Yon rising Moon that looks for us again--
How oft
hereafter
will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden--and for one in vain!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Non ho parlato si, che tu non posse
ben veder ch'el fu re, che chiese senno
accio che re sufficiente fosse;
non per sapere il numero in che enno
li motor di qua su, o se necesse
con
contingente
mai necesse fenno;
non si est dare primum motum esse,
o se del mezzo cerchio far si puote
triangol si ch'un retto non avesse.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Gather, while 'tis fine,
Your wood; to-morrow shall be gay
With smoking pig and
streaming
wine,
And lord and slave keep holyday.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:--
"'Khayyam, who
stitched
the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Men of England,
wherefore
plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
And what is that
temperament?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
To deny
one's own
experiences
is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
"For
everybody
said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So closely!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
they wander on
In gladness all; but thou, me thinks, most glad,
My gentle-hearted
Charles!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Their deaths were dew-drops on Heaven's
amaranth
bower,
And tolled on flowers as Summer gales went by.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Such a
wondrous
thing!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
) And can that earth-artificer
have a freer power over his brother potsherd (both being made of the
same metal), than God hath over him, who, by the strange fecundity of
His
omnipotent
power, first made the clay out of nothing, and then him
out of that?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
I am
astonished
at what yon tell me of
Anthony's writing me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
L'acre amour m'a gonfle de
torpeurs
enivrantes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Whither, Bacchus, tear'st thou me,
Fill'd with thy
strength?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Hollow-necked and hollow-flanked, lean of rib and hip,
Strained and sick and weary with the wallow of the ship,
Glad to smell the turf again, hear the robin's call,
Tread again the country road they lost at
Montreal!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Before this
period, they were almost the only merchants of the East; they had
colonies in every place
convenient
for trade, and were the sole masters
of the Ethiopian, Arabian, and Indian seas.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals
blinking
through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
I thought you were like the man who clung to the bridge:[24]
Not guessing I should climb the Look-for-Husband Terrace,[25]
But next year you went far away,
To Ch'u-t'ang and the
Whirling
Water Rocks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
I wondered which would miss me least,
And when Thanksgiving came,
If father'd
multiply
the plates
To make an even sum.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Yet,
standing
on the east side of the Common just
before sundown, when the western light is transmitted through them, I
see that their yellow even, compared with the pale lemon yellow of an
elm close by, amounts to a scarlet, without noticing the bright
scarlet portions.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
what rejoicing and crackling and
roasting!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
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 |
|
Of this,
although extremely indecent in his Majesty, the
philosopher
took no
notice:--simply kicking the dog, and requesting him to be quiet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
La fin
couronne
les oeuvres.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
palais neufs, echafaudages, blocs,
Vieux faubourgs, tout pour moi devient allegorie,
Et mes chers
souvenirs
sont plus lourds que des rocs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
But when the weight of years bow down the head,
And man feels all his energies decline,
His projects gone, himself tomb'd with the dead,
Where virtues lie, nor more illusions shine,
When all our lofty thoughts dispersed and o'er,
We count within our hearts so near congealed,
Each grief that's past, each dream,
exhausted
ore!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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 |
|
Le Destin charme suit tes jupons comme un chien;
Tu semes au hasard la joie et les desastres,
Et tu
gouvernes
tout et ne reponds de rien.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Did ye hear a cry
Under the
rafters?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
She later
associated
herself more with New York
City.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
O, then, indeed, you are much
wronged!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
When laurel spirts i' th' fire, and when the hearth
Smiles to itself, and gilds the roof with mirth;
When up the Thyrse is raised, and when the sound
Of sacred orgies, flies A round, A round;
When the rose reigns, and locks with
ointments
shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Over the
monstrous
shambling sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest:
Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red West, --
Thy Prospero I'll be.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|