友情提示:如果本网页打开太慢或显示不完整,请尝试鼠标右键“刷新”本网页!
合租小说网 返回本书目录 加入书签 我的书架 我的书签 TXT全本下载 『收藏到我的浏览器』

dramatic lyrics-第8部分

快捷操作: 按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页 按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页 按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部! 如果本书没有阅读完,想下次继续接着阅读,可使用上方 "收藏到我的浏览器" 功能 和 "加入书签" 功能!


XXVIII。







Margheritone of Arezzo;



  With the grave…clothes garb and swaddling barret



(Why purse up mouth and beak in a pet so;



  You bald old saturnine poll…clawed parrot?)



Not a poor glimmering Crucifixion;



  Where in the foreground kneels the donor?



If such remain; as is my conviction;



  The hoarding it does you but little honour。







XXIX。







They pass; for them the panels may thrill;



  The tempera grow alive and tinglish;



Their pictures are left to the mercies still



  Of dealers and stealers; Jews and the English;



Who; seeing mere money's worth in their prize;



  Will sell it to somebody calm as Zeno



At naked High Art; and in ecstasies



  Before some clay…cold vile Carlino!







XXX。







No matter for these! But Giotto; you;



  Have you allowed; as the town…tongues babble it;…



Oh; never! it shall not be counted true…



  That a certain precious little tablet



Which Buonarroti eyed like a lover;…



  Was buried so long in oblivion's womb



And; left for another than I to discover;



  Turns up at last! and to whom?…to whom?







XXXI。







I; that have haunted the dim San Spirito;



  (Or was it rather the Ognissanti?)



Patient on altar…step planting a weary toe!



  Nay; I shall have it yet! _Detur amanti!_



My Koh…i…noor…or (if that's a platitude)



  Jewel of Giamschid; the Persian Sofi's eye



So; in anticipative gratitude;



  What if I take up my hope and prophesy?







XXXII。







When the hour grows ripe; and a certain dotard



  Is pitched; no parcel that needs invoicing;



To the worse side of the Mont Saint Gothard;



  We shall begin by way of rejoicing;



None of that shooting the sky (blank cartridge);



  Nor a civic guard; all plumes and lacquer;



Hunting Radetzky's soul like a partridge



  Over Morello with squib and cracker。







XXXIII。







This time we'll shoot better game and bag 'em hot…



  No mere display at the stone of Dante;



But a kind of sober Witanagemot



  (Ex: ‘‘Casa Guidi;'' _quod videas ante_)



Shall ponder; once Freedom restored to Florence;



  How Art may return that departed with her。 



Go; hated house; go each trace of the Loraine's;



  And bring us the days of Orgagna hither!







XXXIV。







How we shall prologize; how we shall perorate;



  Utter fit things upon art and history;



Feel truth at blood…heat and falsehood at zero rate;



  Make of the want of the age no mystery;



Contrast the fructuous and sterile eras;



  Show…monarchy ever its uncouth cub licks



Out of the bear's shape into Chimra's;



  While Pure Art's birth is still the republic's。







XXXV。







Then one shall propose in a speech (curt Tuscan;



  Expurgate and sober; with scarcely an ‘‘_issimo;_'')



To end now our half…told tale of Cambuscan;



  And turn the bell…tower's _alt_ to _altissimo_:



And fine as the beak of a young beccaccia



  The Campanile; the Duomo's fit ally;



Shall soar up in gold full fifty braccia;



  Completing Florence; as Florence Italy。







XXXVI。







Shall I be alive that morning the scaffold



  Is broken away; and the long…pent fire; 



Like the golden hope of the world; unbaffled



  Springs from its sleep; and up goes the spire



While ‘‘God and the People'' plain for its motto; 



  Thence the new tricolour flaps at the sky?



At least to foresee that glory of Giotto



  And Florence together; the first am I!







* 1  A sculptor; died 1278。



* 2  Died 1455。 Designed the bronze gates of the Baptistry at Florence。



* 3  A painter; died 1498。



* 4  The son of Fr Lippo Lippi。 Wronged; because some of his



*    pictures have been attributed to others。



* 5  Died 1366。 One of Giotto's pupils and assistants。



* 6  Rough cast。



* 7  Painter; sculptor; and goldsmith。



* 8  Distemper…mixture of water and egg yolk。



* 9  Sculptor and architect; died 1313…



*10  All Saints。



*11  A Florentine painter; died 1576。



*12  Tartar king。



*13  A woodcock











‘‘DE GUSTIBUS…''







I。







Your ghost will walk; you lover of trees;



    (If our loves remain)



    In an English lane;



By a cornfield…side a…flutter with poppies。



Hark; those two in the hazel coppice…



A boy and a girl; if the good fates please;



    Making love; say;…



    The happier they!



Draw yourself up from the light of the moon;



And let them pass; as they will too soon;



    With the bean…flowers' boon; 



    And the blackbird's tune;



    And May; and June!







II。







What I love best in all the world



Is a castle; precipice…encurled;



In a gash of the wind…grieved Apennine



Or look for me; old fellow of mine;



(If I get my head from out the mouth



O' the grave; and loose my spirit's bands;



And come again to the land of lands)…



In a sea…side house to the farther South;



Where the baked cicala dies of drouth;



And one sharp tree…'tis a cypress…stands;



By the many hundred years red…rusted;



Rough iron…spiked; ripe fruit…o'ercrusted;



My sentinel to guard the sands



To the water's edge。 For; what expands



Before the house; but the great opaque



Blue breadth of sea without a break?



While; in the house; for ever crumbles



Some fragment of the frescoed walls;



From blisters where a scorpion sprawls。



A girl bare…footed brings; and tumbles



Down on the pavement; green…flesh melons;



And says there's news to…day…the king



Was shot at; touched in the liver…wing;



Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling:



…She hopes they have not caught the felons。



Italy; my Italy!



Queen Mary's saying serves for me…



    (When fortune's malice



    Lost her…Calais)…



Open my heart and you will see



Graved inside of it; ‘‘Italy。''



Such lovers old are I and she:



So it always was; so shall ever be!















HOME…THOUGHTS; FROM ABROAD。







I。







Oh; to be in England



Now that April's there;



And whoever wakes in England



Sees; some morning; unaware;



That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf



Round the elm…tree bole are in tiny leaf;



While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough



In England…now!!







II。







And after April; when May follows;



And the whitethroat builds; and all the swallows!



Hark; where my blossomed pear…tree in the hedge



Leans to the field and scatters on the clover



Blossoms and dewdrops…at the bent spray's edge…



That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over;



Lest you should think he never could recapture



The first fine careless rapture!



And though the fields look rough with hoary dew;



All will be gay when noontide wakes anew



The buttercups; the little children's dower



…Far brighter than this gaudy melon…flower!















 HOME…THOUGHTS; FROM THE SEA。







Nobly; nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North…west died away;



Sunset ran; one glorious blood…red; reeking into Cadiz Bay;



Bluish 'mid the burning water; full in face Trafalgar lay;



In the dimmest North…east distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray;



‘‘Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?''…say;



Whoso turns as I; this evening; turn to God to praise and pray;



While Jove's planet rises yonder; silent over Africa。















SAUL。







I。







Said Abner; ‘‘At last thou art come! Ere I tell; ere thou speak;



‘‘Kiss my cheek; wish me well!'' Then I wished it; and did kiss his cheek。 



And he; ‘‘Since the King; O my friend; for thy countenance sent;



‘‘Neither drunken nor eaten have we; nor until from his tent



‘‘Thou return with the joyful assurance the King liveth yet;



‘‘Shall our lip with the honey be bright; with the water be wet。



‘‘For out of the black mid…tent's silence; a space of three days;



‘‘Not a sound hath escaped to thy servants; of prayer nor of praise;



‘‘To betoken that Saul and the Spirit have ended their strife;



‘‘And that; faint in his triumph; the monarch sinks back upon life。







II。







‘‘Yet now my heart leaps; O beloved! God's child with his dew



‘‘On thy gracious gold hair; and those lilies still living and blue



‘‘Just broken to twine round thy harp…strings; as if no wild beat



‘‘Were now raging to torture the desert!''







III。







                                           Then I; as was meet;



Knelt down to the God of my fathers; and rose on my feet;



And ran o'er the sand burnt to powder。 The tent was unlooped;



I pulled up the spear that obstructed; and under I stooped



Hands and knees on the slippery grass…patch; all withered and gone;



That extends to the second enclosure; I groped my way on



Till I felt where the foldskirts fly open。 Then once more I prayed;



And opened the foldskirts and entered; and was not afraid



But spoke; ‘‘Here is David; thy servant!'' And no voice replied。



At the first I saw nought but the blackness but soon I descried



A something more black than the blackness…the vast; the upright



Main prop which sustains the pavilion: and slow into sight



Grew a figure against it; gigantic and blackest of all。



Then a sunbeam; that burst thro' the tent…roof; showed Saul。







IV。







He stood as erect as that tent…prop; both arms str
返回目录 上一页 下一页 回到顶部 0 0
快捷操作: 按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页 按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页 按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部!
温馨提示: 温看小说的同时发表评论,说出自己的看法和其它小伙伴们分享也不错哦!发表书评还可以获得积分和经验奖励,认真写原创书评 被采纳为精评可以获得大量金币、积分和经验奖励哦!