Finally, to make things
quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon
home-truth, tears away all his
protective
screens, and leaves him with his
self-respect in tatters.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
470
The island left afar, and other land
Appearing none, but sky alone and sea,
Right o'er the hollow bark Saturnian Jove
Hung a
caerulean
cloud, dark'ning the Deep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
His horse he's spurred, the clear blood issued;
He's
gallopped
on, over a ditch he's leapt,
Full fifty feet a man might mark its breadth.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
My soul is filled with a nameless fear,
That after all my trouble and pain,
After all my
restless
endeavor,
The youngest, fairest soul of the twain,
The most ethereal, most divine,
Will escape from my hands for ever and ever.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
tam gratum est mihi quam ferunt puellae
pernici
aureolum
fuisse malum,
quod zonam soluit diu ligatam.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Suns are
hurrying
suns a-west,
And newborn moons make speed to meet their end.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
He
searcheth
his pockets and findeth certain papers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
How shall a blind man dare
Venture along the roaring crowded street,
Or
branching
roads where I may never hit
The way he has gone?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
I did heare
The
gallopping
of Horse.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Io non so chi tu se' ne per che modo
venuto se' qua giu; ma fiorentino
mi sembri
veramente
quand' io t'odo.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
answer for fear]
[XXX for
vindication
of Urizens word] [Thy name is familiar XXX] {These 2 partially recovered erased pencil lines are discerned by Erdman beneath line 3.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
To the gate
He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat
Open without
impediment
it flew.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
O Star of France [1870-71]
O star of France,
The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a
mastless
hulk,
And 'mid its teeming madden'd half-drown'd crowds,
Nor helm nor helmsman.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all
forwards
do contend.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
85
Hunc simulac cupido conspexit lumine virgo
Regia, quam suavis expirans castus odores
Lectulus in molli conplexu matris alebat,
Quales Eurotae
progignunt
flumina myrtus
Aurave distinctos educit verna colores, 90
Non prius ex illo flagrantia declinavit
Lumina, quam cuncto concepit corpore flammam
Funditus atque imis exarsit tota medullis.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies,
And the knights still hurried amain
To the tournament under the ladies' eyes,
Where the
jousters
were Heart and Brain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"
That
doubtful
old man of Spithead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
I shall fall
Like a bright
exhalation
in the evening,
And no man see me more.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
He who attempts the manner of translation
prescribed
by
Horace, ventures upon a task of genius.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
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: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"
For we are growing blind and cannot see,
Beyond the clouds that stand like prison bars,
EN PASSANT By Marx Sabel
Out of the sultry night she came, With tired lips aflame;
Deep in her
mutineering
eyes The nervous anger of emprise
Wakened and fought the black, Ice-cold oppression back;
Fought in the hope of hopelessness, And fought for Artemis;
Fought in the.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
A
MEDITATION
FOR HIS MISTRESS
You are a Tulip seen to-day,
But, Dearest, of so short a stay,
That where you grew, scarce man can say.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Bebold the port of
Phorcys!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
formd the lovely limbs of Enitharmon XXX & to
lamentation
of Enion ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
From thee, O AElla, alle oure courage reygnes;
Echone yn
phantasie
do lede the Danes ynne chaynes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:
Her audit (though
delayed)
answered must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the
trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone
providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance
with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production,
promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works,
harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees,
that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do
or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm
work, (b) alteration, modification, or
additions
or deletions to any
Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Looke to the Lady:
And when we haue our naked
Frailties
hid,
That suffer in exposure; let vs meet,
And question this most bloody piece of worke,
To know it further.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
It had been written by June, 1832, and appears to
have been originally
entitled
'Legend of Fair Women' (see Spedding's
letter dated 21st June, 1832, 'Life', i.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
You may convert to and
distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
XL
"Of deadly hue we both of us remain;
We both stand silent; both with
downcast
eye.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And from the rafters upon strings depend
Beanstalks beset with pods from end to end,
Whose numbers without
counting
may be seen
Wrote on the almanack behind the screen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And
comprehend
within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The Loyal London now a third time bums ;
And the true Royal Oak, and Royal James,
Allied in fate,
increase
with theirs her flames.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some
superior
tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
For whan that he me gan espye, 3815
He swoor,
afferming
sikirly,
Bitwene Bialacoil and me
Was yvel aquayntaunce and privee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Here in a bay, a
helmeted
sentry
Silent and motionless, watching while two sleep,
And he sees before him
With indifferent eyes the blasted and torn land
Peopled with stiff prone forms, stupidly rigid,
As tho' they had not been men.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Let us some
pleasing
fair-one then engage,
To serve us both:--enough she'll prove I'll wage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
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: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
My father could not believe it possible that I
should be mixed up in a disgraceful revolt, of which the object was the
downfall of the throne and the
extermination
of the race of "_boyars_.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far valley,
perishes
upon burnt grass.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
And yet how still the
landscape
stands,
How nonchalant the wood,
As if the resurrection
Were nothing very odd!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
]
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN:
A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to
sing in his country's service, where shall he so properly look for
patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who
bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their
ancestors?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music,
the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find
ourselves
melted into
tears, we weep then, not as the Abbate Gravina supposes, through excess
of pleasure, but through a certain petulant, impatient sorrow at our
inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and for ever,
those divine and rapturous joys of which _through' _the poem, or
_through _the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
My brother's hair
Is as a prince's and a rover's, strong
With
sunlight
and with strife: not like the long
Locks that a woman combs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one,
settling
a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg(TM) works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
_
LEAVING ROME, HE DESIRES ONLY PEACE WITH LAURA AND
PROSPERITY
TO
COLONNA.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
"A
singular
monument of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;" "the
very worst of all his pieces;" are, for instance, the phrases applied to
it by Schlegel.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
the vilest in the
dungeon!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
I would not have a pain to own
For those dark curls and those bright eyes
A
frowning
lip, a heart of stone,
False love and folly I despise.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Parsifal
Parsifal has
conquered
the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE
POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
What if our ruler
Be sick in very deed of cares of state
And hath no
strength
to mount the throne?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
" His son, to whom we gave
the freedom of the city, burned with desire to come here and eat
chitterlings at the feast of the Apaturia;[174] he prayed his father to
come to the aid of his new country and
Sitalces
swore on his goblet that
he would succour us with such a host that the Athenians would exclaim,
"What a cloud of grasshoppers!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT
AN
ALLEGORIC
ROMANCE
Like a lone Arab, old and blind,
Some caravan had left behind,
Who sits beside a ruin'd well,
Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell;
And now he hangs his aged head aslant,
And listens for a human sound--in vain!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
It was wont to be faithful to me; but shaken
with age now, and sloth, which weakens the
strongest
abilities, it may
perform somewhat, but cannot promise much.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
The young man was at first very
unwilling
to discover
from whence he had the original; but, after many promises made to him,
he was at last prevailed on to acknowledge, that he had received this,
_together with many other MSS_, from his father, who had found them
in a large chest in an upper room over the chapel on the north side of
Redclift church.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
therefore
love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The poet related
what had been mentioned to a young man who wrote to him
expressly
to ask
whether Arezzo could really boast of being his birthplace.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Throw
Physicke
to the Dogs, Ile none of it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
That does not mean that Virgil is more
artistic
than
Homer.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
)
The Council have
resolved
for the last time
To put to proof the power of supplication
Upon our ruler's mournful soul.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Now, when the flame they watch not towers
About the soil they trod,
Lads, we'll
remember
friends of ours
Who shared the work with God.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
_ These lines
are
condensed
and obscure.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Last, may your harrows, shears, and ploughs,
Your stacks, your stocks, your
sweetest
mows,
All prosper by our virgin vows.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Stars
There is no
oversight
of human affairs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
AElla, the Danes ar thondrynge onn our coaste;
Lyche scolles of locusts, caste oppe bie the sea,
Magnus and Hurra, wythe a
doughtie
hoaste, 240
Are ragyng, to be quansed[50] bie none botte thee;
Haste, swyfte as Levynne to these royners flee:
Thie dogges alleyne can tame thys ragynge bulle.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
In these woods, thy small Labrador,
At this pinch, wee San
Salvador!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
I took thee as my
friendly
host
That counsel might in dangers show,
But when I needed thee the most
I found thou wert my foe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
LADY:
If I be sure I am not
dreaming
now, _125
I should not doubt to say it was a dream.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
'
`And thou, my suster, ful of discomfort,'
Quod Pandarus, `what
thenkestow
to do?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Now the moon-white butterflies
Float across the liquid air,
Glad as in a dream;
And, across thy lover's heart, 10
Visions of one scarlet mouth
With its
maddening
smile.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
The victory of the foreign taste was decisive; and indeed we can
hardly blame the Romans for turning away with contempt from the
rude lays which had
delighted
their fathers, and giving their
whole admiration to the immortal productions of Greece.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There
grieving
thou shalt only hear
Vain murmuring of an empty shell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
140
`And I to ben your verray humble trewe,
Secret, and in my paynes pacient,
And ever-mo desire freshly newe,
To serven, and been y-lyke ay diligent,
And, with good herte, al holly your talent 145
Receyven
wel, how sore that me smerte,
Lo, this mene I, myn owene swete herte.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Hysteria
As she laughed I was aware of
becoming
involved in her
laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were
only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|