Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Be gracious,
Accessible
to foreigners, accept
Their service trustfully.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
whose voice rang through my ear,
Whose mighty
yearning
drew me from my sphere?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
It is my purpose, lest I wear thee out,
Thee and thy friends, to seek at early dawn
The city, there to beg--But give me first
Needful instructions, and a trusty guide
Who may conduct me thither; there my task
Must be to roam the streets; some hand humane
Perchance shall give me a small
pittance
there,
A little bread, and a few drops to drink.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The mercy of the king is
godlike, and
rebellion
is like unto the sin of witchcraft.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
THE BRIDE
Call me,
Beloved!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Much of the
poem is but a somewhat ambling paraphrase and expansion of Scriptural
narratives; but there are passages where Milton resumes his perfect
mastery of poetic form, under the inspiration that places him among the
selectest band of
immortal
singers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
_ Beside these, too, I
bestowed
on them fire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
And Betty, now at Susan's side,
Is in the middle of her story,
What speedy help her Boy will bring, [11]
With many a most
diverting
thing, 125
Of Johnny's wit, and Johnny's glory.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"
In this little book we have some of the best thoughts of one of the most
vigorous minds that ever added to the
strength
of English literature.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
"
{19c} "No art is
discovered
at once and absolutely.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
225
XXVI
"The suns of twenty summers danced along,--
Too little marked how fast they rolled away:
But, through severe mischance and cruel wrong,
My father's
substance
fell into decay:
We toiled and struggled, hoping for a day 230
When Fortune might [13] put on a kinder look;
But vain were wishes, efforts vain as they;
He from his old hereditary nook
Must part; the summons [14] came;--our final leave we took.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Lastly, with any grain,
Thou'lt see that no one kernel in one kind
Is so far like another, that there still
Is not in shapes some
difference
running through.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
The eagle, from the cliffy brow,
Marking you his prey below,
In his breast no pity dwells,
Strong necessity compels:
But Man, to whom alone is giv'n
A ray direct from pitying Heav'n,
Glories in his heart humane--
And
creatures
for his pleasure slain!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"The best
treasure
is in that
man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
All day the waves
assailed
the rock
Alone in Rome.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"
"Hath he let vultures climb his eagle's seat
To make Jove's bolts
purveyors
of their maw?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Such the love I bear
My heroine,
Tattiana
dear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Droop, droop no more, or hang the head,
Ye roses almost withered;
Now
strength
and newer purple get,
Each here declining violet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
I
wonder he's not ashamed of
himself!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Ah, 'tis not the jewels and
trinkets
alone;
Her look is so piercing, so _distingue_!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Could I of my Queen be the hair-lock,
Neighbour
to Hydrochois e'en let Oarion shine.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
This
freedom from the usual faults of satirists may be
traced to several causes ; partly to the
honhommie
which, with all his talents for satire, was a pecu-
liar characteristic of the man, and which rendered
him as little disposed to take offence, and as pla-
cable when it was offered, as any man of his time;
partly to the integrity of his nature, which, while
it prompted him to champion any cause in which
justice had been outraged or innocence wmnged,
effectually preserved him from the wanton exer-
cise of his wit for the gratification of malevo-
lence; partly, perhaps principally, to the fact,
that both the above qualities restricted him to
encounters in which he had personally no con-
cern.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
of
Zhuangzi
the useless chu tree is ignored because its timber cannot be used.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
ei suffren more
greuously
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the
livelong
day
To an admiring bog!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
You fear the
sovereign
power so little.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
A sudden trust from sudden liking grew;
She told her name, her race, and all she knew,
'I too (she cried) from
glorious
Sidon came,
My father Arybas, of wealthy fame:
But, snatch'd by pirates from my native place,
The Taphians sold me to this man's embrace.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
"Now to the shores we bend, a mournful train,
Climb the tall bark, and launch into the main;
At once the mast we rear, at once unbind
The
spacious
sheet, and stretch it to the wind;
Then pale and pensive stand, with cares oppress'd,
And solemn horror saddens every breast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout
labourer
the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Just then,
Clarissa
drew with tempting grace
A two-edg'd weapon from her shining case:
So Ladies in Romance assist their Knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Enter
Macbeths
Lady, and a Seruant.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer,
Which shall
possesse
them with the heauiest sound
that euer yet they heard
Macd.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Of all this
Guildenstern
and Rosencrantz realise nothing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
O coeurs de salete, bouches epouvantables,
Fonctionnez plus fort, bouches de
puanteurs!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
_
HE INVITES HIS EYES TO FEAST
THEMSELVES
ON LAURA.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
These
principles
are not new; they
have fallen into desuetude.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
4 (of 8), by William Butler Yeats
*** END OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK WORKS OF W B YEATS, VOL 4 ***
***** This file should be named 49611-0.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
31-48 in
codicibus
continuantur sine omni nota distributionis:
eos uarie dispertiunt Froehlich, Rossbach, Schwabe, L.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And now that the deed was
securely
done, in the night
When none had known her fate,
They answered those that had striven for her, day by day:
"It is over, you come too late.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
But who-so wol
chastyse
me,
Anoon my love lost hath he;
For I love no man in no gyse,
That wol me repreve or chastyse; 6990
But I wolde al folk undirtake,
And of no wight no teching take;
For I, that other folk chastye,
Wol not be taught fro my folye.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Defer to the you,
she has
certitude
for, me?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
That some spot in
darkness
could be found
That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
He (the
witness) now solemnly called upon the accused to state whether what
he (the
witness)
had just stated was or was not the truth in every
substantial particular.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
163);
hrīmge =
_frosty_
(Sw.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The
trembling
mariners?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
What the father was I look for in the son;
My
daughter
may love him, pleasing me for one.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is
synonymous
with the free distribution of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
It seems
certainly more like a jaunt of
pleasure
than the progress of an invader
through a country to be gained.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
, are
arranged
at the end of the list.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
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 |
|
To the stile
She came o'er violet carpets soft, attired,
To meet the harvest bridegroom, as erewhile,
To be his
truelove
till the feast expired.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
e hersum
euensong
of ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
Di sua
bestialitate
il suo processo
fara la prova; si ch'a te fia bello
averti fatta parte per te stesso.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
stōd,
2230
hwæðre
earm-sceapen .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Who's there
i'th' name of
Belzebub?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Playful the spirits of noon, that rushing soft through thy tresses,
Green-hair'd
goddess!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
'
Quick answered Lilia 'There are thousands now
Such women, but convention beats them down:
It is but
bringing
up; no more than that:
You men have done it: how I hate you all!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
travelling
along even to its destind end
Then falling down.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A resurrection morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad
inanition
wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
William Morris if he had thought of writing a play, and
he
answered
that he had, but would not write one, because actors did
not know how to speak poetry with the half-chant men spoke it with in
old times.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Who could keep a smiling wit,
Roasted so in heart and hide,
Turning on the sun's red spit,
Scorched
by love inside?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
XXXIX
Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace
To look through and behind this mask of me,
(Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly,
With their rains,) and behold my soul's true face,
The dim and weary witness of life's race,--
Because thou hast the faith and love to see,
Through that same soul's
distracting
lethargy,
The patient angel waiting for a place
In the new Heavens,--because nor sin nor woe,
Nor God's infliction, nor death's neighbourhood,
Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,
Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed,--
Nothing repels thee, .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Lay him soft in the silks he had
pleasure
to fold
When, beside thee at night, holy dreams deep and deeper
Enclosed his young life on the couch made of gold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
But Hugo's method, of a connected sequence of separate
poems, instead of one
continuous
poem, may come in here.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Nay, sometimes it is
the reward of a man's study, the praise of quoting another man fitly; and
though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another,
yet he must
exercise
all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Ils sont
familiers
du grand turc!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Ye deities of the nether world, grant a pleasant journey to the
poet who is leaving us to return to the light of day; grant
likewise
wise
and healthy thoughts to our city.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Indeed, and were there not
For each its
procreant
atoms, could things have
Each its unalterable mother old?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
I call him
bankrupt
in the courts of song Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not, Defaulter do I call the knave who hath got Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Thence to
Magnesia
came we, and the land
Where Macedonians dwell, and crossed the ford
Of Axius, and Bolbe's reedy fen,
And mount Pangaeus, in Edonian land.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Now they begin to roar their terror: now
They wave and beckon
wordless
desperate things
One to another.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Und steigt vor meinem Blick der reine Mond
Besanftigend heruber,
schweben
mir
Von Felsenwanden, aus dem feuchten Busch
Der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten auf
Und lindern der Betrachtung strenge Lust.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
The rats are
underneath
the piles.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|