第 75 节
作者:乐乐陶陶      更新:2021-02-20 05:16      字数:9322
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '1807…1882'
  〃VOICE OF THE WESTERN WIND〃
  Voice of the western wind!
  Thou singest from afar;
  Rich with the music of a land
  Where all my memories are;
  But in thy song I only hear
  The echo of a tone
  That fell divinely on my ear
  In days forever flown。
  Star of the western sky!
  Thou beamest from afar;
  With lustre caught from eyes I knew
  Whose orbs were each a star;
  But; oh; those orbs … too wildly bright …
  No more eclipse thine own;
  And never shall I find the light
  Of days forever flown!
  Edmund Clarence Stedman '1833…1908'
  LANGSYNE; WHEN LIFE WAS BONNIE〃
  Langsyne; when life was bonnie;
  An' a' the skies were blue;
  When ilka thocht took blossom;
  An' hung its heid wi' dew;
  When winter wasna winter;
  Though snaws cam' happin' doon;
  Langsyne; when life was bonnie;
  Spring gaed a twalmonth roun'。
  Langsyne; when life was bonnie;
  An' a' the days were lang;
  When through them ran the music
  That comes to us in sang;
  We never wearied liltin'
  The auld love…laden tune;
  Langsyne; when life was bonnie;
  Love gaed a twalmonth roun'。
  Langsyne; when life was bonnie;
  An' a' the warld was fair;
  The leaves were green wi' simmer;
  For autumn wasna there。
  But listen hoo they rustle;
  Wi' an eerie; weary soun';
  For noo; alas; 'tis winter
  That gangs a twalmonth roun'。
  Alexander Anderson '1845…1909'
  THE SHOOGY…SHOO
  I do be thinking; lassie; of the old days now;
  For oh! your hair is tangled gold above your Irish brow;
  And oh! your eyes are fairy flax! no other eyes so blue;
  Come nestle in my arms; and swing upon the shoogy…shoo。
  Sweet and slow; swinging low; eyes of Irish blue;
  All my heart is swinging; dear; swinging here with you;
  Irish eyes are like the flax; and mine are wet with dew;
  Thinking of the old days upon the shoogy…shoo。
  When meadow…larks would singing be in old Glentair;
  Was one sweet lass had eyes of blue and tangled golden hair;
  She was a wee bit girleen then; dear heart; the like of you;
  When we two swung the braes among; upon the shoogy…shoo。
  Ah well; the world goes up and down; and some sweet day
  Its shoogy…shoo will swing us two where sighs will pass away;
  So nestle close your bonnie head; and close your eyes so true;
  And swing with me; and memory; upon the shoogy…shoo。
  Sweet and slow; swinging low; eyes of Irish blue;
  All my heart is swinging; dear; swinging here with you;
  Irish eyes are like the flax; and mine are wet with dew;
  Thinking of the old days upon the shoogy…shoo。
  Winthrop Packard '1862…
  BABYLON
  〃We shall meet again in Babylon。〃
  I'm going softly all my years in wisdom if in pain …
  For; oh; the music stirs my blood as once it did before;
  And still I hear in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;
  The dancing feet in Babylon; of those who took my floor。
  I'm going silent all my years; but garnered in my brain
  Is that swift wit which used to flash and cut them like a sword …
  And now I hear in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;
  The foolish tongues in Babylon; of those who took my word。
  I'm going lonely all my days; who was the first to crave
  The second; fierce; unsteady voice; that struggled to speak free …
  And now I watch in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;
  The pallid loves in Babylon of men who once loved me。
  I'm sleeping early by a flame as one content and gray;
  But; oh; I dream a dream of dreams beneath a winter moon;
  I breathe the breath of Babylon; of Babylon; of Babylon;
  The scent of silks in Babylon that floated to a tune。
  A band of years has flogged me out … an exile's fate is mine;
  To sit with mumbling crones and still a heart that cries with youth。
  But; oh; to walk in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;
  The happy streets in Babylon; when once the dream was truth。
  Viola Taylor '18
  THE ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE
  The old wind stirs the hawthorn tree;
  The tree is blossoming;
  Northward the road runs to the sea;
  And past the House of Spring。
  The folk go down it unafraid;
  The still roofs rise before;
  When you were lad and I was maid;
  Wide open stood the door。
  Now; other children crowd the stair;
  And hunt from room to room;
  Outside; under the hawthorn fair;
  We pluck the thorny bloom。
  Out in the quiet road we stand;
  Shut in from wharf and mart;
  The old wind blowing up the land;
  The old thoughts at our heart。
  Lizette Woodworth Reese '1856…1935'
  THE TRIUMPH OF FORGOTTEN THINGS
  There is a pity in forgotten things;
  Banished the heart they can no longer fill;
  Since restless Fancy; spreading swallow wings;
  Must seek new pleasures still!
  There is a patience; too; in things forgot;
  They wait … they find the portal long unused;
  And knocking there; it shall refuse them not; …
  Nor aught shall be refused!
  Ah; yes! though we; unheeding years on years;
  In alien pledges spend the heart's estate;
  They bide some blessed moment of quick tears …
  Some moment without date …
  Some gleam on flower; or leaf; or beaded dew;
  Some tremble at the ear of memoried sound
  Of mother…song; … they seize the slender clew; …
  The old loves gather round!
  When that which lured us once now lureth not;
  But the tired hands their garnered dross let fall;
  This is the triumph of the things forgot …
  To hear the tired heart call!
  And they are with us at Life's farthest reach;
  A light when into shadow all else dips;
  As; in the stranger's land; their native speech
  Returns to dying lips!
  Edith M。 Thomas '1854…1925'
  IN THE TWILIGHT
  Men say the sullen instrument;
  That; from the Master's bow;
  With pangs of joy or woe;
  Feels music's soul through every fibre sent;
  Whispers the ravished strings
  More than he knew or meant;
  Old summers in its memory glow;
  The secrets of the wind it sings;
  It hears the April…loosened springs;
  And mixes with its mood
  All it dreamed when it stood
  In the murmurous pine…wood
  Long ago!
  The magical moonlight then
  Steeped every bough and cone;
  The roar of the brook in the glen
  Came dim from the distance blown;
  The wind through its glooms sang low;
  And it swayed to and fro;
  With delight as it stood;
  In the wonderful wood;
  Long ago!
  O my life; have we not had seasons
  That only said; Live and rejoice?
  That asked not for causes and reasons;
  But made us all feeling and voice?
  When we went with the winds in their blowing;
  When Nature and we were peers;
  And we seemed to share in the flowing
  Of the inexhaustible years?
  Have we not from the earth drawn juices
  Too fine for earth's sordid uses?
  Have I heard; have I seen
  All I feel; all I know?
  Doth my heart overween?
  Or could it have been
  Long ago?
  Sometimes a breath floats by me;
  An odor from Dreamland sent;
  That makes the ghost seem nigh me
  Of a splendor that came and went;
  Of a life lived somewhere; I know not
  In what diviner sphere;
  Of memories that stay not and go not;
  Like music heard once by an ear
  That cannot forget or reclaim it;
  A something so shy; it would shame it
  To make it a show;
  A something too vague; could I name it;
  For others to know;
  As if I had lived it or dreamed it;
  As if I had acted or schemed it;
  Long ago!
  And yet; could I live it over;
  This life that stirs in my brain;
  Could I be both maiden and lover;
  Moon and tide; bee and clover;
  As I seem to have been; once again;
  Could I but speak it and show it;
  This pleasure more sharp than pain;
  That baffles and lures me so;
  The world should once more have a poet;
  Such as it had
  In the ages glad;
  Long ago!
  James Russell Lowell '1819…1891'
  AN IMMORALITY
  Sing we for love and idleness;
  Naught else is worth the having。
  Though I have been in many a land;
  There is naught else in living。
  And I would rather have my sweet;
  Though rose…leaves die of grieving;
  Than do high deeds in Hungary
  To pass all men's believing。
  Ezra Pound '1885…
  THREE SEASONS
  〃A cup for hope!〃 she said;
  In springtime ere the bloom was old:
  The crimson wine was poor and cold
  By her mouth's richer red。
  〃A cup for love!〃 how low;
  How soft the words; and all the while
  Her blush was rippling with a smile
  Like summer after snow。
  〃A cup for memory!〃
  Cold cup that one must drain alone:
  While autumn winds are up and moan
  Across the barren sea。
  Hope; memory; love:
  Hope for fair morn; and love for day;
  And memory for the evening gray
  And solitary dove。
  Christina Georgina Rossetti '1830…1894'
  THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES
  I have had playmates; I have had companions;
  In my days of childhood; in my joyful schooldays; …
  All; all are gone; the old familiar faces。
  I have been laughing; I have been carousing;
  Drinking late; sitting late; with my bosom cronies; …
  All;