第 2 节
作者:僻处自说      更新:2021-02-21 12:01      字数:9322
  What is the solace of these hills and vales That rise and fall? What is
  there   glorious   in   the   greenwood   glen;   Or   twittering   thrush   or   wing   of
  darting wren? Give me the gusty; Raucous and rusty Call of the sea gull in
  the echoing sky; The wild shriek of the winds that cannot die; Give me the
  life that follows the bending sails; Or none at all!
  ERNEST BENSHIMOL
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  ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS
  A BANQUET ONE MEMORY
  FROM SOCRATES
  AFTER the song the love; and after the love the play; Flute girl and
  pretty boy blowing Bubbles of sparkling Wine into darkling Beards of a
  former austerity; stern even now; but Fast growing Foolish; with less of a
  stately Reserve that held them sedately。 Oh Zeus; what a sight! With the
  wine dripping off it; The grin of an ass on a bald…pated prophet。
  After   the  feast  the  night;  and  after  the  night  the  day;  Fool  and
  philosopher stirring With the day dawning; Stretching and yawning; While
  in each wine…throbbing; desolated brain is the Wheeling and whirring Of
  thousands of bats; that the slaking Of throats will not hinder from aching;
  No wine for the brow that is beating to bursting; But water at morning is
  quench for the thirsting!
  ERNEST BENSHIMOL
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  SONG
  OUT of   one heart   the birds   and   I   together;  Earth hushed in twilight;
  Low through the live…oaks hung heavy with silver; Gemmed with the sky…
  light; Under the great wet star Shaking with light; we jar Lute…voiced the
  silence with intervaled music。
  While under the margined world the slow sun lingers; Flaming earth's
  portal;   Over   the   lilac   dusk   spreads   his   great   fingers…   Earth   is   immortal!
  While   the   frail   beauty   dies。   Dream   in   the   dreamer's   eyes; All   the   good
  gladness turns praise for the singers。
  Hark; 'tis the breath of life!      Hush! and I need it; Northern; gigantic;…
  Questing the silences; herding the sudden foam Down the Atlantic; Leaves
  from the   autumn's   store   Shrill   at   my  desert   door; They  and   I   out   of one
  heart that is grieving。
  GEORGE CABOT LODGE
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  ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS
  THE WORLDS
  I SAW an idler on a summer day Piping with Iris by a dancing brook;
  And all his world was rife with Pleasures gay; And languid Follies smiled
  from every nook。
  I   saw   an   artist   in   a   world   of   dreams;   His   rainbow   rising   from   his
  radiant   task;  To   throw   its  magic  prism   beams    O'er  Fancy's    changeful
  masque and counter… masque。
  I saw Toilstooping underneath   a world Whereon his   foster…brothers
  lighter   tread;  His  skyward    pinions   ever   closer  furled  Before    the  grim
  necessity of bread!
  I saw a sinner   working hard to be Worthy his death…wage from  the
  mint of time; I saw a sailor; unto whom the sea Was hearth and hope and
  love and wedding… chime。
  I   saw   a   mother   living   in   her   child   I   saw   a   saint   among   his   fellow
  men     Brave    soldiery   before   my    eyes   defiled   And    solemn…hearted
  scholarsSudden then
  I cried: 〃The stars are no less neighborly In their ethereal remoteness
  swung; Than these near human orbits wherein we Live out our lives and
  speak our chosen tongue!
  〃Love seek through allless there be one Least soul unlit within the
  night And over all; the selfsame sun Give each creation light!〃
  MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI
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  THE RIOT
  YOU may think my life is quiet。 I find it full of change; An ever…varied
  diet; As piquant as 'tis strange。
  Wild   thoughts   are   always   flying;   Like   sparks   across   my   brain;   Now
  flashing out; now dying; To kindle soon again。
  Fine   fancies   set   me   thrilling;  And   subtle   monsters   creep   Before   my
  sight unwilling: They even haunt my sleep。
  One broad; perpetual riot Enfolds me night and day。 You think my life
  is quiet? You don't know what you say。
  GAMALIEL BRADFORD
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  HUNGER
  I'VE   been   a   hopeless   sinner;   but   I   understand   a   saint;  Their   bend   of
  weary knees and their con… tortions long and faint; And the endless pricks
  of conscience; like a hundred thousand pins; A real perpetual penance for
  imaginary sins。
  I love to wander widely; but I understand a cell; Where you tell and tell
  your beads because you've nothing else to tell; Where the crimson joy of
  flesh; with all its wild fantastic tricks; Is forgotten in the blinding glory of
  the crucifix。
  I cannot speak for others; but my inmost soul is torn With a battle of
  desires   making   all   my   life   forlorn。   There   are   moments   when   I   would
  untread the paths that I have trod。 I'm a haunter of the devil; but I hunger
  after God。
  GAMALIEL BRADFORD
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  EXIT GOD
  Of old our father's God was real; Something they almost saw; Which
  kept them to a stern ideal And scourged them into awe。
  They  walked   the narrow   path   of   right   Most   vigilantly  well;   Because
  they feared eternal night And boiling depths of Hell。
  Now Hell has wholly boiled away And God become a shade。 There is
  no place for him to stay In all the world He made。
  The followers of William James Still let the Lord exist; And call Him
  by  imposing   names; A  venerable   list。   But   nerve   and   muscle   only   count;
  Gray   matter   of   the   brain;   And   an   astonishing   amount   Of   inconvenient
  pain。
  I sometimes wish that God were back In this dark world and wide; For
  though sonic virtues He might lack; He had his pleasant side。
  GAMALIEL BRADFORD
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  ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS
  CHAPTER ROUSSEAU
  THAT   odd;   fantastic   ass;   Rousseau;   Declared   himself   unique。   How
  men persist in doing so; Puzzles me more than Greek。
  The   sins   that   tarnish   whore   and   thief   Beset   me   every   day。   My   most
  ethereal belief Inhabits common clay。
  GAMALIEL BRADFORD
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  JOHN MASEFIELD
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  MASEFIELD (HIMSELF)
  GOD   said;   and   frowned;   as   He   looked   on   Shropshire   clay:   〃Alone;
  'twont   do;   composite;   would   I   make   This   man…child   rare;   'twere   well;
  methinks; to take A handful from the Stratford tomb; and weigh A few of
  Shelley's ashes; Bunyan may Contribute; too; and; for my sweet Son's sake;
  I'll visit Avalon; then; let me slake The whole with Wyclif…water from the
  Bay。
  A sailor; he!    Too godly; though; I fear; Offset it with tobacco!       Next;
  I'll   find   Hedge…roses;  star…dust;   and   a vagrant's   mind;   His   mother's   heart
  now let me breathe upon; When west winds blow; I'll whisper in her ear:
  〃Apocalypse awaits him; call him John!〃
  II
  HIS PORTRAIT
  A Man of Sorrows! with such haunted eyes; I trow; the Master looked
  across the lake; Looked from the Judas…heart; so soon to make Of Him
  the   world's   historic   sacrifice;   Moreover;   as   I   gaze;   do   more   arise;   Great
  souls; great pallid ghosts of pain; who wake And wander yet; all; weary
  men    who    brake   Their  hearts;  all  hemlock…drunk;     with  growing    wise:
  Hudson   adrift;   Defoe;   the   Wandering   Jew;   Tannhauser;   Faust;   Andrea;
  phantoms; all; In Masefield's eyes you lodge; and to the wall I turn you;
  hand a…tremble;lest you make Of mine own stricken eyes a mirror; too。
  Wherein the sad world's sadder for your sake。
  III
  HIS 〃DAUBER〃
  O   Mase