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second april-第3部分
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Through the lots where you are flinging
Yellow clay on dust!
ALMS
My heart is what it was before;
A house where people come and go;
But it is winter with your love;
The sashes are beset with snow。
I light the lamp and lay the cloth;
I blow the coals to blaze again;
But it is winter with your love;
The frost is thick upon the pane。
I know a winter when it comes:
The leaves are listless on the boughs;
I watched your love a little while;
And brought my plants into the house。
I water them and turn them south;
I snap the dead brown from the stem;
But it is winter with your love;
I only tend and water them。
There was a time I stood and watched
The small; ill…natured sparrows' fray;
I loved the beggar that I fed;
I cared for what he had to say;
I stood and watched him out of sight;
Today I reach around the door
And set a bowl upon the step;
My heart is what it was before;
But it is winter with your love;
I scatter crumbs upon the sill;
And close the window;and the birds
May take or leave them; as they will。
INLAND
People that build their houses inland;
People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house; and build a house there;
Far from the sea…board; far from the sound
Of water sucking the hollow ledges;
Tons of water striking the shore;
What do they long for; as I long for
One salt smell of the sea once more?
People the waves have not awakened;
Spanking the boats at the harbor's head;
What do they long for; as I long for;
Starting up in my inland bed;
Beating the narrow walls; and finding
Neither a window nor a door;
Screaming to God for death by drowning;
One salt taste of the sea once more?
TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG
Minstrel; what have you to do
With this man that; after you;
Sharing not your happy fate;
Sat as England's Laureate?
Vainly; in these iron days;
Strives the poet in your praise;
Minstrel; by whose singing side
Beauty walked; until you died。
Still; though none should hark again;
Drones the blue…fly in the pane;
Thickly crusts the blackest moss;
Blows the rose its musk across;
Floats the boat that is forgot
None the less to Camelot。
Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath;
Here's a song was never sung:
Growing old is dying young。
Minstrel; what is this to you:
That a man you never knew;
When your grave was far and green;
Sat and gossipped with a queen?
Thalia knows how rare a thing
Is it; to grow old and sing;
When a brown and tepid tide
Closes in on every side。
Who shall say if Shelley's gold
Had withstood it to grow old?
WRAITH
〃Thin Rain; whom are you haunting;
That you haunt my door?〃
Surely it is not I she's wanting;
Someone living here before
〃Nobody's in the house but me:
You may come in if you like and see。〃
Thin as thread; with exquisite fingers;
Have you seen her; any of you?
Grey shawl; and leaning on the wind;
And the garden showing through?
Glimmering eyes;and silent; mostly;
Sort of a whisper; sort of a purr;
Asking something; asking it over;
If you get a sound from her。
Ever see her; any of you?
Strangest thing I've ever known;
Every night since I moved in;
And I came to be alone。
〃Thin Rain; hush with your knocking!
You may not come in!
This is I that you hear rocking;
Nobody's with me; nor has been!〃
Curious; how she tried the window;
Odd; the way she tries the door;
Wonder just what sort of people
Could have had this house before 。 。 。
EBB
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide;
A little tepid pool;
Drying inward from the edge。
ELAINE
OH; come again to Astolat!
I will not ask you to be kind。
And you may go when you will go;
And I will stay behind。
I will not say how dear you are;
Or ask you if you hold me dear;
Or trouble you with things for you
The way I did last year。
So still the orchard; Lancelot;
So very still the lake shall be;
You could not guessthough you should guess
What is become of me。
So wide shall be the garden…walk;
The garden…seat so very wide;
You needs must thinkif you should think
The lily maid had died。
Save that; a little way away;
I'd watch you for a little while;
To see you speak; the way you speak;
And smile;if you should smile。
BURIAL
Mine is a body that should die at sea!
And have for a grave; instead of a grave
Six feet deep and the length of me;
All the water that is under the wave!
And terrible fishes to seize my flesh;
Such as a living man might fear;
And eat me while I am firm and fresh;
Not wait till I've been dead for a year!
MARIPOSA
Butterflies are white and blue
In this field we wander through。
Suffer me to take your hand。
Death comes in a day or two。
All the things we ever knew
Will be ashes in that hour;
Mark the transient butterfly;
How he hangs upon the flower。
Suffer me to take your hand。
Suffer me to cherish you
Till the dawn is in the sky。
Whether I be false or true;
Death comes in a day or two。
THE LITTLE HILL
OH; here the air is sweet and still;
And soft's the grass to lie on;
And far away's the little hill
They took for Christ to die on。
And there's a hill across the brook;
And down the brook's another;
But; oh; the little hill they took;
I think I am its mother!
The moon that saw Gethsemane;
I watch it rise and set:
It has so many things to see;
They help it to forget。
But little hills that sit at home
So many hundred years;
Remember Greece; remember Rome;
Remember Mary's tears。
And far away in Palestine;
Sadder than any other;
Grieves still the hill that I call mine;
I think I am its mother!
DOUBT NO MORE THAT OBERON
Doubt no more that Oberon
Never doubt that Pan
Lived; and played a reed; and ran
After nymphs in a dark forest;
In the merry; credulous days;
Lived; and led a fairy band
Over the indulgent land!
Ah; for in this dourest; sorest
Age man's eye has looked upon;
Death to fauns and death to fays;
Still the dog…wood dares to raise
Healthy tree; with trunk and root
Ivory bowls that bear no fruit;
And the starlings and the jays
Birds that cannot even sing
Dare to come again in spring!
LAMENT
Listen; children:
Your father is dead。
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants。
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there;
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with。
Life must go on;
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on;
Though good men die;
Anne; eat your breakfast;
Dan; take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why。
EXILED
Searching my heart for its true sorrow;
This is the thing I find to be:
That I am weary of words and people;
Sick of the city; wanting the sea;
Wanting the sticky; salty sweetness
Of the strong wind and shattered spray;
Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound
Of the big surf that breaks all day。
Always before about my dooryard;
Marking the reach of the winter sea;
Rooted in sand and dragging drift…wood;
Straggled the purple wild sweet…pea;
Always I climbed the wave at morning;
Shook the sand from my shoes at night;
That now am caught beneath great buildings;
Stricken with noise; confused with light。
If I could hear the green piles groaning
Under the windy wooden piers;
See once again the bobbing barrels;
And the black sticks that fence the weirs;
If I could see the weedy mussels
Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls;
Hear once again the hungry crying
Overhead; of the wheeling gulls;
Feel once again the shanty straining
Under the turning of the tide;
Fear once again the rising freshet;
Dread the bell in the fog outside;
I should be happy;that was happy
All day long on the coast of Maine!
I have a need to hold and handle
Shells and anchors and ships again!
I should be happy; that am happy
Never at all since I came here。
I am too long away from water。
I have a need of water near。
THE DEATH OF AUTUMN
When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes;
And feathered pampas…grass rides into the wind
Like aged warriors westward; tragic; thinned
Of half their tribe; and over the flattened rushes;
Stripped of its secret; open; stark and bleak;
Blackens afar the half…forgotten creek;
Then leans on me the weight of the year; and crushes
My heart。 I know that Beauty must ail and die;
And will be born again;but ah; to see
Beauty stiffened; staring up at the sky!
Oh; Autumn! Autumn!What is the Spring to me?
ODE TO SILENCE
Aye; but she?
Your other sister and my other soul
Grave Silence; lovelier
Than the three loveliest maidens; what of her?
Clio; not you;
Not you; Calliope;
Nor all your wanton line;
Not Beauty's perfect self shall comfort me
For Silence once departed;
For her the cool…tongued; her the tranquil…hearted;
Whom evermore I follow wistfully;
Wandering Heaven and Earth and Hell and the four seasons through;
Thalia; not you;
Not you; Melpomene;
Not your incomparable feet; O thin Terpsichore;
I seek in this great hall;
But one more pale; more pensive; most beloved of you all。
I seek her from afar;
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