- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
(_Die
Alkestis
von Euripides_, Kiel, 1895.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
A
humorous
sally
1787.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
We have seen
an album
containing
sketches by the poet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
He sits in a beautiful parlor,
With
hundreds
of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Come you Spirits,
That tend on mortall thoughts, vnsex me here,
And fill me from the Crowne to the Toe, top-full
Of direst Crueltie: make thick my blood,
Stop vp th' accesse, and passage to Remorse,
That no compunctious
visitings
of Nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keepe peace betweene
Th' effect, and hit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
"
Submissive thus the hoary sire preferr'd
His holy vow: the
favouring
goddess heard.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
"
Those two old Bachelors without loss of time
The nearly
purpledicular
crags at once began to climb;
And at the top, among the rocks, all seated in a nook,
They saw that Sage a-reading of a most enormous book.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Remembrance
and Reflection how ally'd; 225
What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide:
And Middle natures, how they long to join,
Yet never pass th' insuperable line!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
They did so:
To th'
amazement
of mine eyes that look'd vpon't.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Note
that in each case the
metaphor
is of a stringed instrument.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
No, pasture
molehills
used to lie
And talk to me of sunny days,
And then the glad sheep resting bye
All still in ruminating praise
Of summer and the pleasant place
And every weed and blossom too
Was looking upward in my face
With friendship's welcome "how do ye do?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The language is
extremely
simple, but the effect is
awe-inspiring.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the
fearsome
noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Verum, siquid ages, statim iubeto:
Nam pransus iaceo et satur supinus 10
Pertundo
tunicamque
palliumque.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
sent
A flake of fire, that,
flashing
in his beard,
Him all amazd, and almost made affeard: 230
The scorching flame sore swinged all his face,
And through his armour all his body seard,
That he could not endure so cruell cace,
But thought his armes to leave, and helmet to unlace.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
DRINKING
SONG
See the waters of the Yellow River leap down from Heaven,
Roll away to the deep sea and never turn again!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
My gentle reader, I perceive
How
patiently
you've waited,
And I'm afraid that you expect
Some tale will be related.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
And o'er the fountains draw a shady veil-
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done-
And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame
Am to the stars exalted,
guardian
once
Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Be just at home; then write your scroll
Of honor o'er the sea,
And bid the broad
Atlantic
roll,
A ferry of the free.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Hast thou marked the crocodile's weeping,
Or the fox's
sleeping?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
E come questa imagine rompeo
se per se stessa, a guisa d'una bulla
cui manca l'acqua sotto qual si feo,
surse in mia visione una fanciulla
piangendo
forte, e dicea: <
perche per ira hai voluto esser nulla?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
I fly along as an
undoubted
man,
On four and twenty legs the road I scour.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Not less are summer
mornings
dear
To every child they wake,
And each with novel life his sphere
Fills for his proper sake.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
The most
generous
and amiable natures
were those which participated the most extensively in these
sympathies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
for I think I have reason to be the
proudest
son
alive--for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
And who has been bold and true?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
I swear I think now that
everything
without exception has an eternal soul!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Such of late
Columbus found th'
American
so girt
With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde
Among the Trees on Iles and woodie Shores.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
The angel host withdraws
With empty boasts
throughout
its sullen files.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
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: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Hir court hath many a losengere, 1050
And many a
traytour
envious,
That been ful besy and curious
For to dispreisen, and to blame
That best deserven love and name.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
THE FLAME AND THE SMOKE By
Gertrude
Cornwell Hopkins
It is high, it is far~
Unattainably great,
Yet its rapture releases;
Melted are bonds and, unhindered,
I am at last not less than the thing that I am: Free of the universe,
Swept with pure fires,
Aware, unafraid, of the roaring, tumultuous vastness, Knowing my fire to be one with the core of all life; Set free from limits, definements and edges,
Enlarged by my high adoration,
Stilled even by madness of joy — Thus comes always upon me
The sense of the Oneness I worship, The sense of the Beauty I love.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
To be told that Chopin filed
at his music for years, that
Beethoven
in his smithy forged his
thunderbolts by the sweat of his brow, that Manet toiled like a
labourer on the dock, that Baudelaire was a mechanic in his devotion
to poetic work, that Gautier was a hard-working journalist, are
disillusions for the sentimental.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From
innocent
play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Two puissant people
are flying to arms; two flourishing cities are
agitated
by the approach
of war.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"Avdotia Vassilieva,"[6] said he, sharply
addressing
my mother, "how
old is Petrousha?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Early on the morrow the lord and his men hasten to
the woods, and come upon the track of a fox, the hunting of which
affords them plenty of
employment
and sport (ll.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
The sounds of waist-strung swords follow steps on the pavements of�jade, bodies in caps and gowns tease wisps of incense from
imperial
braziers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Yes, since I've taught thee that from off the things
Stream and depart
innumerable
bodies
In modes innumerable too; but most
Must be the bodies streaming from the living--
Which bodies, vexed by motion evermore,
Are through the mouth exhaled innumerable,
When weary creatures pant, or through the sweat
Squeezed forth innumerable from deep within.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
By birth and
temperament
he was singularly fitted for the task, and this
fitness is proved by the unique extent to which his productions were
accepted by his countrymen, and have passed into the life and feeling of
his race.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
CEPHISE, the river Cephissus in Boeotia whose waters possessed the
power of
bleaching
the fleece of sheep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
A gaudy dress and gentle air
May slightly touch the heart;
But it's
innocence
and modesty
That polishes the dart.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Contributions to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the
full extent permitted by U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
TO HIS
PATERNAL
COUNTRY
O earth!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
E'en now, a helpless wrack,
You drift, despoil'd of oars;
The Afric gale has dealt your mast a wound;
Your
sailyards
groan, nor can your keel sustain,
Till lash'd with cables round,
A more imperious main.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
"
as well as the two preceding ones, are
unequalled
almost by anything I
ever heard or read: and the lines,
"The present moment is our ain,
The neist we never saw,"--
are worthy of the first poet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
org
[Picture: Book cover]
SONNETS FROM THE
PORTUGUESE
* * * * *
BY
ELIZABETH
BARRETT BROWNING
* * * * *
[Picture: Decorative graphic]
THE CARADOC PRESS BEDFORD PARK
CHISWICK LONDON MDCCCCVI
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
I I thought once how Theocritus had sung
II But only three in all God's universe
III Unlike are we, unlike, O
princely
Heart!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Not
otherwise
he sacks
Those many-chambered palaces of wax.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
enne
worschupeden
heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
et precor ut uigeant
tandemque
superstite utroque
nuntiet hoc cineri nostra fauilla tuo.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
'Tis this in Nelly pleases me,
'Tis this enchants my soul;
For
absolutely
in my breast
She reigns without control.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
Afterwards,
When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,
And when the woman, joined unto the man,
Withdrew
with him into one dwelling place,
*****
Were known; and when they saw an offspring born
From out themselves, then first the human race
Began to soften.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
net (This file was made using scans of
public domain works from the University of
Michigan
Digital
Libraries.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
A kinde
goodnight
to all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
) I
agree with Hayward, "the meaning
probably
is, that our Saviour enjoys, in
coming to life again," (I should say, in being born into the upper life,)
"a happiness nearly equal to that of the Creator in creating.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
--Not one moment
Of
dreamless
sleep!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
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: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief
excitement
for the wind;
They hold a breathless final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft
responsive
voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge impatient rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
ATHENA
Such as aspires towards a victory
Unrued by any: chants from breast of earth,
From wave, from sky; and let the wild winds' breath
Pass with soft
sunlight
o'er the lap of land,--
Strong wax the fruits of earth, fair teem the kine,
Unfailing, for my town's prosperity,
And constant be the growth of mortal seed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
But we with living overwrought,
And full of grave and sombre thought,
Are
snappish
oft: dear little men,
We have ill-tempered days, and then,
Are quite unjust and full of care;
It rained this morning and the air
Was chill; but clouds that dimm'd the sky
Have passed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
* If an individual Project Gutenberg(TM) electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with
permission
of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
[the end of the
introductory
text to
'Guilt and Sorrow', the next poem in this text.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
It
perseveres
if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
In him who twice entraps the routed foe,
Gonslavo
you behold, the pride of Spain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
When the skies are sad and murky,
'Tis a
cheerful
thing to meet
Round this homely roast of turkey--
Pilgrims, pausing just to greet,
Then, with earnest grace, to eat
A new Thanksgiving turkey.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[d] The original has, the citadel of eloquence, which calls to mind an
admired passage in Lucretius:
Sed nil dulcius est bene quam munita tenere
Edita doctrinâ sapientum templa serena,
Despicere unde queas alios,
passimque
videre
Errare, atque viam pallantes quærere vitæ.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
In whose lap
shrouded
both my parents lie!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"--Letter to Murray,
February
8, 1822, _Letters_,
1901, vi.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
It is not an age that lasts for very long as a rule;
and before there comes the state in which strong social organization and
strong private individuality are compatible--mutually helpful instead of
destroying one another, as they do, in opposite ways, in savagery and in
the Heroic Age--before the state called civilization can arrive, there
has commonly been a long passage of dark obscurity, which throws up into
exaggerated
brightness
the radiance of the Heroic Age.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
"
"You came with your
parents?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Now, thank God,
The golden fire has gone, and your face is ash
Indistinguishable
in the grey, chill day,
The night has burnt you out, at last the good
Dark fire burns on untroubled without clash
Of you upon the dead leaves saying me yea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Menier repeatedly points out in his "La
medecine
et les
po?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
_insert_ that
_after_ thus,
_except_
Sh.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Thus policy in love, to anticipate
The ills that were not, grew to faults assur'd,
And brought to medicine a
healthful
state
Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cur'd;
But thence I learn and find the lesson true,
Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Our sad decay in church and state
Surpasses
my descriving:
The Whigs cam' o'er us for a curse,
An' we hae done wi' thriving.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
/ am an eternal spirit and the things I make are
but ephemera, yet I endure:
Yea, and the little earth
crumbles
beneath our feet
and we endure.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
But what was she, the black-robed, with the eyes
So
fearfully
alight, the last who spoke?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Chacun de vous m'a fait un temple dans son coeur;
Vous avez, en secret, baise ma fesse
immonde!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Why an Ear, a
whirlpool
fierce to draw creations in?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
, New York
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of poems for
the year 1917.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|