第 60 节
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乐乐陶陶 更新:2021-02-20 05:16 字数:9322
When thy fair tree; fully grown;
Shall bourgeon; and grow splendid
With blossoms of its own;
And the fruit begins to gather;
But the buttercups are mown。
If I should see thy autumn;
'Twill not be close at hand;
But with a spirit vision;
From some far…distant land。
Or; perhaps; I hence may see thee
Amongst the angels stand。
I know not what of fortune
The future holds for thee;
Nor if skies fair or clouded
Wait thee in days to be;
But neither joy nor sorrow
Shall sever thee from me。
Dear child; whatever changes
Across our lives may pass;
I shall see thee still for ever;
Clearly as in a glass;
The same sweet child of fancy;
The same dear winsome lass。
Lewis Morris '1833…1907'
DAISY
Where the thistle lifts a purple crown
Six foot out of the turf;
And the harebell shakes on the windy hill …
O the breath of the distant surf! …
The hills look over on the South;
And southward dreams the sea;
And with the sea…breeze hand in hand
Came innocence and she。
Where 'mid the gorse the raspberry
Red for the gatherer springs;
Two children did we stray and talk
Wise; idle; childish things。
She listened with big…lipped surprise;
Breast…deep 'mid flower and spine:
Her skin was like a grape; whose veins
Run snow instead of wine。
She knew not those sweet words she spake;
Nor knew her own sweet way;
But there's never a bird; so sweet a song
Thronged in whose throat that day!
Oh; there were flowers in Storrington
On the turf and on the spray;
But the sweetest flower on Sussex hills
Was the Daisy…flower that day!
Her beauty smoothed earth's furrowed face!
She gave me tokens three: …
A look; a word of her winsome mouth;
And a wild raspberry。
A berry red; a guileless look;
A still word; … strings of sand!
And yet they made my wild; wild heart
Fly down to her little hand。
For standing artless as the air;
And candid as the skies;
She took the berries with her hand;
And the love with her sweet eyes。
The fairest things have fleetest end:
Their scent survives their close;
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose!
She looked a little wistfully;
Then went her sunshine way: …
The sea's eye had a mist on it;
And the leaves fell from the day。
She went her unremembering way;
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone;
And partings yet to be。
She left me marveling why my soul
Was sad that she was glad;
At all the sadness in the sweet;
The sweetness in the sad。
Still; still I seemed to see her; still
Look up with soft replies;
And take the berries with her hand;
And the love with her lovely eyes。
Nothing begins; and nothing ends;
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain;
And perish in our own。
Francis Thompson '1859?…1907'
TO PETRONILLA WHO HAS PUT UP HER HAIR
Yesterday it blew alway;
Yesterday is dead;
Now forever must it stay
Coiled about your head;
Tell me Whence the great Command
Hitherward has sped。
〃Silly boy; as if I knew;〃
Petronilla said。
Nay; but I am very sure;
Since you left my side;
Something has befallen you;
You are fain to hide;
Homage has been done to you;
Innocents have died。
〃Silly boy; and what of that?〃
Petronilla cried。
Petronilla; much I fear
Scarcely have you wept
All those merry yesterdays;
Slaughtered whilst you slept;
Slain to bind that pretty crown
Closer round your head。
〃Silly boy; as if I cared;〃
Petronilla said。
Henry Howarth Bashford '1880…
THE GYPSY GIRL
Passing I saw her as she stood beside
A lonely stream between two barren wolds;
Her loose vest hung in rudely gathered folds
On her swart bosom; which in maiden pride
Pillowed a string of pearls; among her hair
Twined the light bluebell and the stone…crop gay;
And not far thence the small encampment lay;
Curling its wreathed smoke into the air。
She seemed a child of some sun…favored clime;
So still; so habited to warmth and rest;
And in my wayward musings on past time;
When my thought fills with treasured memories;
That image nearest borders on the blest
Creations of pure art that never dies。
Henry Alford '1810…1871'
FANNY
A Southern Blossom
Come and see her as she stands;
Crimson roses in her hands;
And her eyes
Are as dark as Southern night;
Yet than Southern dawn more bright;
And a soft; alluring light
In them lies。
None deny if she beseech
With that pretty; liquid speech
Of the South。
All her consonants are slurred;
And the vowels are preferred;
There's a poem in each word
From that mouth。
Even Cupid is her slave;
Of her arrows; half he gave
Her one day
In a merry; playful hour。
Dowered with these and beauty's dower;
Strong indeed her magic power;
So they say。
Venus; not to be outdone
By her generous little son;
Shaped the mouth
Very like to Cupid's bow。
Lack…a…day! Our North can show
No such lovely flowers as grow
In the South!
Anne Reeve Aldrich '1866…1892'
SOMEBODY'S CHILD
Just a picture of Somebody's child; …
Sweet face set in golden hair;
Violet eyes; and cheeks of rose;
Rounded chin; with a dimple there;
Tender eyes where the shadows sleep;
Lit from within by a secret ray; …
Tender eyes that will shine like stars
When love and womanhood come this way:
Scarlet lips with a story to tell; …
Blessed be he who shall find it out;
Who shall learn the eyes' deep secret well;
And read the heart with never a doubt。
Then you will tremble; scarlet lips;
Then you will crimson; loveliest cheeks:
Eyes will brighten and blushes will burn
When the one true lover bends and speaks。
But she's only a child now; as you see;
Only a child in her careless grace:
When Love and Womanhood come this way
Will anything sadden the flower…like face?
Louise Chandler Moulton '1835…1908'
EMILIA
Halfway up the Hemlock valley turnpike;
In the bend of Silver Water's arm;
Where the deer come trooping down at even;
Drink the cowslip pool; and fear no harm;
Dwells Emilia;
Flower of the fields of Camlet Farm。
Sitting sewing by the western window
As the too brief mountain sunshine flies;
Hast thou seen a slender…shouldered figure
With a chestnut braid; Minerva…wise;
Round her temples;
Shadowing her gray; enchanted eyes?
When the freshets flood the Silver Water;
When the swallow flying northward braves
Sleeting rains that sweep the birchen foothills
Where the windflowers' pale plantation waves …
(Fairy gardens
Springing from the dead leaves in their graves); …
Falls forgotten; then; Emilia's needle;
Ancient ballads; fleeting through her brain;
Sing the cuckoo and the English primrose;
Outdoors calling with a quaint refrain;
And a rainbow
Seems to brighten through the gusty rain。
Forth she goes; in some old dress and faded;
Fearless of the showery shifting wind;
Kilted are her skirts to clear the mosses;
And her bright braids in a 'kerchief pinned;
Younger sister
Of the damsel…errant Rosalind。
While she helps to serve the harvest supper
In the lantern…lighted village hall;
Moonlight rises on the burning woodland;
Echoes dwindle from the distant Fall。
Hark; Emilia!
In her ear the airy voices call。
Hidden papers in the dusty garret;
Where her few and secret poems lie; …
Thither flies her heart to join her treasure;
While she serves; with absent…musing eye;
Mighty tankards
Foaming cider in the glasses high。
〃Would she mingle with her young companions!〃
Vainly do her aunts and uncles say;
Ever; from the village sports and dances;
Early missed; Emilia slips away。
Whither vanished?
With what unimagined mates to play?
Did they seek her; wandering by the water;
They should find her comrades shy and strange:
Queens and princesses; and saints and fairies;
Dimly moving in a cloud of change: …
Desdemona;
Mariana of the Moated Grange。
Up this valley to the fair and market
When young farmers from the southward ride;
Oft they linger at a sound of chanting
In the meadows by the turnpike side;
Long they listen;
Deep in fancies of a fairy bride。
Sarah N。 Cleghorn '1876…
TO A GREEK GIRL
With breath of thyme and bees that hum;
Across the years you seem to come; …
Across the years with nymph…like head;
And wind…blown brows unfilleted;
A girlish shape that slips the bud
In lines of unspoiled symmetry;
A girlish shape that stirs the blood
With pulse of Spring; Autonoe!
Where'er you pass; … where'er you go;
I hear the pebbly rillet flow;
Where'er you go; … where'er you pass;
There comes a gladness on the grass;
You bring blithe airs where'er you tread; …
Blithe airs that blow from down and s