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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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