第 5 节
作者:僻处自说      更新:2021-02-21 12:01      字数:9322
  Ledwidge; even!
  GRACE HAZARD CONKLING
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  DANDELION
  LITTLE soldier with the golden helmet; O What are you guarding on
  my lawn? You with your green gun And your yellow beard; Why do you
  stand so stiff? There is only the grass to fight!
  HILDA CONKLING
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  RED ROOSTER
  RED     ROOSTER       in  your  gray  coop;   O  stately  creature  with   tail…
  feathers red and blue; Yellow and black; You have a comb gay as a parade
  On   your   head: You   have   pearl   trinkets   On   your   feet:   The   short   feathers
  smooth along your back Are the dark color of wet rocks; Or the rippled
  green of ships When I look at their sides through water。 I don't know how
  you happened to be made So proud; so foolish; Wearing your coat of many
  colors; Shouting all day long your crooked words; Loud 。 。 。 sharp 。 。 。 not
  beautiful!
  HILDA CONKLING
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  VELVETS (BY A BED OF
  PANSIES)
  THIS pansy has a thinking face Like the yellow moon。 This one has a
  face with white blots; I call him the clown。 Here goes one down the grass
  With a pretty look of plumpness; She is a little girl going to school With
  her hands in the pockets of her pinafore。 Her name is Sue。 I like this one;
  in a bonnet; Waiting; Her eyes are so deep! But these on the other side;
  These that wear purple and blue; They are the Velvets; The king with his
  cloak; The   queen   with her gown; The   prince   with   his   feather。 These   are
  dark and quiet And stay alone。 I know you; Velvets; Color of Dark; Like
  the pine…tree on the hill When stars shine!
  HILDA CONKLING
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  HE MOODS
  THE   Moods   have   laid   their   hands   across   my   hair:   The   Moods   have
  drawn their fingers through my heart; My hair shall never more lie smooth
  and   bright;   But   stir   like   tide…worn   sea…weed;   and   my   heart   Shall   never
  more be glad of small sweet things;… A wild rose; or a crescent moon;…a
  book Of little verses; or a dancing child。 My heart turns crying from the
  rose   and   book;   My   heart   turns   crying   from   the   thin   bright   moon;   And
  weeps with useless sorrow for the child。 The Moods have loosed a wind to
  vex my hair; And made my heart too wise; that was a child。
  Now   I   shall   blow   like   smitten   candle…flame:   I   shall   desire   all   things
  that may not be: The years; the stars; the souls of ancient men; All tears
  that must; and smiles that may not be; Yes; glimmering lights across a
  windy ford; And vagrant voices on a darkened plain; And holy things; and
  outcast things; and things; Far too remote; frail…bodied to be plain。
  My pity and my joy are grown alike。 I cannot sweep the strangeness
  from   my   heart。   The   Moods   have   laid   swift   hands   across   my   hair:   The
  Moods have drawn   swift   fingers through   my  heart。  FANNIE  STEARNS
  DAVIS
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  HILL…FANTASY
  SITTETH by the red cairn a brown One; a hoofed One; High upon the
  mountain;   where   the   grasses   fail。   Where   the   ash…trees   flourish   far   their
  blazing Bunches to the sun; A brown One; a hoofed One; pipes against the
  gale。 Up scrambled I then; furry fingers helping me。
  I   was   on   the   mountain;   wandering;   wandering;   No   one   but   the   pine
  trees   and   the   white   birch   knew。   Over   rocks   I   scrambled;   looked   up   and
  saw that Strange Thing; Peaked ears and sharp horns; pricked against the
  blue。
  Oh; and; how he piped there! piped upon the high reeds Till the blue
  air crackled like a frost…film on a pool! Oh; and how he spread himself;
  like a child whom no one heeds; Tumbled chuckling in the brook; all sleek
  and kind and cool!
  He   had   berries   'twixt   his   horns;   crimson…red   as   cochineal。;   Bobbing;
  wagging wantonly they  tickled him; and   oh; How his deft lips   puckered
  round   the   reed;   seemed   to   chase   and   steal   Sky…music;   earth…music;   tree…
  music low! I said 〃Good…day; Thou!〃 He said; 〃Good…day; Thou!〃 Wiped
  his reed against the spotted doe…skin on his back; He said; 〃Come up here;
  and I will teach thee piping now。 While the earth is singing so; for tunes
  we shall not Lack。〃
  Up scrambled I then; furry fingers helping me。 Up scrambled I。 So we
  sat   beside   the   cairn。   Broad   into   my   face   laughed   that   horned   Thing   so
  Naughtily。 Oh; it was a rascal of a woodland Satyr's bairn!
  'So blow; and so; Thou! Move thy fingers faster; look! Move them like
  the   little   leaves   and   whirling   midges。   So!   Soon   ‘twill   twist   like   tendrils
  and out…twinkle like the lost brook。 Move thy fingers merrily; and blow!
  Blow! Blow!〃
  Brown One! Hoofed One! Beat time to keep me Straight。 Kick it on
  the   red   stone;   whistle   in   my   ear。   Brush   thy   crimson   berries   in   my   face;
  then hold Thy breath; for…wait! Joy comes bubbling to me lips。 I pipe; oh;
  hear!
  Blue sky; art glad of us? Green wood; art glad of us? Old hard…heart
  mountain; dost thou hear me; how I blow? Far away the sea…isles swim in
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  sun…haze luminous。 Each one has a color like the seven…splendor bow。
  Wind; wind; wind; dost thou mind me how I pipe; Now? Chipmunk
  chatt'ring   in   the   beech;   rabbit   in   the   brake?   Furry   arm  around   my   neck:
  〃Oh; Thou art a brave one; Thou!〃 Satyr; little satyr…friend; my heart with
  joy doth ache !
  Sky…music;   earth…music;   tree…music   tremulous;   Water   over   steaming
  rocks;   water   in   the   shade;   Storm…tune   and   sun…tune;   how   they   flock   up
  unto us; Sitting by the red cairn; gay and unafraid!
  Brown One; Hoofed One; give me nimble hoofs; Thou! Give me furry
  fingers and a secret furry tail! Pleasant are thy smooth horns: if their like
  were on my brow Might I not abide here; till the strong sun fail?
  Oh;   the   sorry   brown   eyes!    Oh;   the   soft   kind   hand…   touch;   Sudden
  brush of velvet ears   across my  wind…cool cheek!   〃Play…mate;   Pipe…mate;
  thou askest one good boon too much。 I could never find thee horns; though
  day…long I seek。
  〃Yet; keep the pipe; Thou: I will cut another one。 Keep the pipe and
  play on it for all the world to hear。 Ah; but it was good once to sit together
  in the sun! Though I have but half a soul; it finds thee very dear!
  〃Wise Thing; Mortal Thing; yet my half…soul fears thee! Take the pipe
  and go   thy  ways;quick now; for the   sun   Reels across the   hot   west   and
  stumbles dazzled to the sea。 Take the pipe; and oh…one kiss! then run; run;
  run! run!〃
  Silence on the mountain。         Lonely stands the high cairn; All the leaves
  a…shivering; all the stones dead…gray。 O thou cold small pipe; which way is
  fled that Satyr's bairn? I am lost and all alone; and down drops the day。
  I was on the mountain; wandering; wandering There I got this Pipe o'
  dreams。      Strange; when I blow; Something deep as human love starts a…
  crying; troubling。 Is it only sky…music; earth…music low?
  FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS
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  THE MIRAGE
  ACROSS       the  Bay   are  low…lying   cliffs;  Where   stand   fishermen's
  cottages: I can barely distinguish them with the naked eye。 But to…day the
  cliffs are lifted; escarpt; Perpendicular; mysterious; inaccessible; And those
  sordid   dwellings   have   become   The   magnificent   fortified   castles   of   Sea…
  kings。
  NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
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  THE ROAD BEYOND THE
  TOWN
  A ROAD goes up a pleasant hill; And a little house looks down: Ah!
  but I see the roadway still And the day I left the town。
  The day I left my father's home; It'