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helen of troy and other poems-第3部分
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〃She was the perfect lover〃 I shall die;
I loved too much to live。 Go Sappho; go
I hate your hands that beat so full of life;
Go; lest my hatred hurt you。 I shall die;
But you will live to love and love again。
He might have loved some other spring than this;
I should have kept my life I let it go。
He would not love me now tho' Cypris bound
Her girdle round me。 I am Death's; not Love's。
Go from me; Sappho; back to find the sun。
I am alone; alone。 O Cyprian 。 。 。
Love Songs
Song
You bound strong sandals on my feet;
You gave me bread and wine;
And bade me out; 'neath sun and stars;
For all the world was mine。
Oh take the sandals off my feet;
You know not what you do;
For all my world is in your arms;
My sun and stars are you。
The Rose and the Bee
If I were a bee and you were a rose;
Would you let me in when the gray wind blows?
Would you hold your petals wide apart;
Would you let me in to find your heart;
If you were a rose?
〃If I were a rose and you were a bee;
You should never go when you came to me;
I should hold my love on my heart at last;
I should close my leaves and keep you fast;
If you were a bee。〃
The Song Maker
I made a hundred little songs
That told the joy and pain of love;
And sang them blithely; tho' I knew
No whit thereof。
I was a weaver deaf and blind;
A miracle was wrought for me;
But I have lost my skill to weave
Since I can see。
For while I sang ah swift and strange!
Love passed and touched me on the brow;
And I who made so many songs
Am silent now。
Wild Asters
In the spring I asked the daisies
If his words were true;
And the clever little daisies
Always knew。
Now the fields are brown and barren;
Bitter autumn blows;
And of all the stupid asters
Not one knows。
When Love Goes
I
O mother; I am sick of love;
I cannot laugh nor lift my head;
My bitter dreams have broken me;
I would my love were dead。
〃Drink of the draught I brew for thee;
Thou shalt have quiet in its stead。〃
II
Where is the silver in the rain;
Where is the music in the sea;
Where is the bird that sang all day
To break my heart with melody?
〃The night thou badst Love fly away;
He hid them all from thee。〃
The Wayfarer
Love entered in my heart one day;
A sad; unwelcome guest;
But when he begged that he might stay;
I let him wait and rest。
He broke my sleep with sorrowing;
And shook my dreams with tears;
And when my heart was fain to sing;
He stilled its joy with fears。
But now that he has gone his way;
I miss the old sweet pain;
And sometimes in the night I pray
That he may come again。
The Princess in the Tower
I
The Princess sings:
I am the princess up in the tower
And I dream the whole day thro'
Of a knight who shall come with a silver spear
And a waving plume of blue。
I am the princess up in the tower;
And I dream my dreams by day;
But sometimes I wake; and my eyes are wet;
When the dusk is deep and gray。
For the peasant lovers go by beneath;
I hear them laugh and kiss;
And I forget my day…dream knight;
And long for a love like this。
II
The Minstrel sings:
I lie beside the princess' tower;
So close she cannot see my face;
And watch her dreaming all day long;
And bending with a lily's grace。
Her cheeks are paler than the moon
That sails along a sunny sky;
And yet her silent mouth is red
Where tender words and kisses lie。
I am a minstrel with a harp;
For love of her my songs are sweet;
And yet I dare not lift the voice
That lies so far beneath her feet。
III
The Knight sings:
O princess cease your dreams awhile
And look adown your tower's gray side
The princess gazes far away;
Nor hears nor heeds the words I cried。
Perchance my heart was overbold;
God made her dreams too pure to break;
She sees the angels in the air
Fly to and fro for Mary's sake。
Farewell; I mount and go my way;
But oh her hair the sun sifts thro'
The tilts and tourneys wait my spear;
I am the Knight of the Plume of Blue。
When Love Was Born
When Love was born I think he lay
Right warm on Venus' breast;
And whiles he smiled and whiles would play
And whiles would take his rest。
But always; folded out of sight;
The wings were growing strong
That were to bear him off in flight
Erelong; erelong。
The Shrine
There is no lord within my heart;
Left silent as an empty shrine
Where rose and myrtle intertwine;
Within a place apart。
No god is there of carven stone
To watch with still approving eyes
My thoughts like steady incense rise;
I dream and weep alone。
But if I keep my altar fair;
Some morning I shall lift my head
From roses deftly garlanded
To find the god is there。
The Blind
The birds are all a…building;
They say the world's a…flower;
And still I linger lonely
Within a barren bower。
I weave a web of fancies
Of tears and darkness spun。
How shall I sing of sunlight
Who never saw the sun?
I hear the pipes a…blowing;
But yet I may not dance;
I know that Love is passing;
I cannot catch his glance。
And if his voice should call me
And I with groping dim
Should reach his place of calling
And stretch my arms to him;
The wind would blow between my hands
For Joy that I shall miss;
The rain would fall upon my mouth
That his will never kiss。
Love Me
Brown…thrush singing all day long
In the leaves above me;
Take my love this little song;
〃Love me; love me; love me!〃
When he harkens what you say;
Bid him; lest he miss me;
Leave his work or leave his play;
And kiss me; kiss me; kiss me!
The Song for Colin
I sang a song at dusking time
Beneath the evening star;
And Terence left his latest rhyme
To answer from afar。
Pierrot laid down his lute to weep;
And sighed; 〃She sings for me;〃
But Colin slept a careless sleep
Beneath an apple tree。
Four Winds
〃Four winds blowing thro' the sky;
You have seen poor maidens die;
Tell me then what I shall do
That my lover may be true。〃
Said the wind from out the south;
〃Lay no kiss upon his mouth;〃
And the wind from out the west;
〃Wound the heart within his breast;〃
And the wind from out the east;
〃Send him empty from the feast;〃
And the wind from out the north;
〃In the tempest thrust him forth;
When thou art more cruel than he;
Then will Love be kind to thee。〃
Roundel
If he could know my songs are all for him;
At silver dawn or in the evening glow;
Would he not smile and think it but a whim;
If he could know?
Or would his heart rejoice and overflow;
As happy brooks that break their icy rim
When April's horns along the hillsides blow?
I may not speak till Eros' torch is dim;
The god is bitter and will have it so;
And yet to…night our fate would seem less grim
If he could know。
Dew
I dream that he is mine;
I dream that he is true;
And all his words I keep
As rose…leaves hold the dew。
O little thirsty rose;
O little heart beware;
Lest you should hope to hold
A hundred roses' share。
A Maiden
Oh if I were the velvet rose
Upon the red rose vine;
I'd climb to touch his window
And make his casement fine。
And if I were the little bird
That twitters on the tree;
All day I'd sing my love for him
Till he should harken me。
But since I am a maiden
I go with downcast eyes;
And he will never hear the songs
That he has turned to sighs。
And since I am a maiden
My love will never know
That I could kiss him with a mouth
More red than roses blow。
〃I Love You〃
When April bends above me
And finds me fast asleep;
Dust need not keep the secret
A live heart died to keep。
When April tells the thrushes;
The meadow…larks will know;
And pipe the three words lightly
To all the winds that blow。
Above his roof the swallows;
In notes like far…blown rain;
Will tell the little sparrow
Beside his window…pane。
O sparrow; little sparrow;
When I am fast asleep;
Then tell my love the secret
That I have died to keep。
But Not to Me
The April night is still and sweet
With flowers on every tree;
Peace comes to them on quiet feet;
But not to me。
My peace is hidden in his breast
Where I shall never be;
Love comes to…night to all the rest;
But not to me。
Hidden Love
I hid the love within my heart;
And lit the laughter in my eyes;
That when we meet he may not know
My love that never dies。
But sometimes when he dreams at night
Of fragrant forests green and dim;
It may be that my love crept out
And brought the dream to him。
And sometimes when his heart is sick
And suddenly grows well again;
It may be that my love was there
To free his life of pain。
Snow Song
Fairy snow; fairy snow;
Blowing; blowing everywhere;
Would that I
Too; could fly
Lightly; lightly through the air。
Like a wee; crystal star
I should drift; I should blow
Near;
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