第 75 节
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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;