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poems-1-第4部分
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Awaited their low brows;
Or bees; that thought the summer's name
Some rumor of delirium
No summer could for them;
Or Arctic creature; dimly stirred
By tropic hint; some travelled bird
Imported to the wood;
Or wind's bright signal to the ear;
Making that homely and severe;
Contented; known; before
The heaven unexpected came;
To lives that thought their worshipping
A too presumptuous psalm。
XIII。
THE SEA OF SUNSET。
This is the land the sunset washes;
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose; or whither it rushes;
These are the western mystery!
Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons;
Dip; and vanish with fairy sails。
XIV。
PURPLE CLOVER。
There is a flower that bees prefer;
And butterflies desire;
To gain the purple democrat
The humming…birds aspire。
And whatsoever insect pass;
A honey bears away
Proportioned to his several dearth
And her capacity。
Her face is rounder than the moon;
And ruddier than the gown
Of orchis in the pasture;
Or rhododendron worn。
She doth not wait for June;
Before the world is green
Her sturdy little countenance
Against the wind is seen;
Contending with the grass;
Near kinsman to herself;
For privilege of sod and sun;
Sweet litigants for life。
And when the hills are full;
And newer fashions blow;
Doth not retract a single spice
For pang of jealousy。
Her public is the noon;
Her providence the sun;
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign; swerveless tune。
The bravest of the host;
Surrendering the last;
Nor even of defeat aware
When cancelled by the frost。
XV。
THE BEE。
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes;
Their velvet masonry
Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes;
While he; victorious; tilts away
To vanquish other blooms。
His feet are shod with gauze;
His helmet is of gold;
His breast; a single onyx
With chrysoprase; inlaid。
His labor is a chant;
His idleness a tune;
Oh; for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
XVI。
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass。
XVII。
As children bid the guest good…night;
And then reluctant turn;
My flowers raise their pretty lips;
Then put their nightgowns on。
As children caper when they wake;
Merry that it is morn;
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep; and prance again。
XVIII。
Angels in the early morning
May be seen the dews among;
Stooping; plucking; smiling; flying:
Do the buds to them belong?
Angels when the sun is hottest
May be seen the sands among;
Stooping; plucking; sighing; flying;
Parched the flowers they bear along。
XIX。
So bashful when I spied her;
So pretty; so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets;
Lest anybody find;
So breathless till I passed her;
So helpless when I turned
And bore her; struggling; blushing;
Her simple haunts beyond!
For whom I robbed the dingle;
For whom betrayed the dell;
Many will doubtless ask me;
But I shall never tell!
XX。
TWO WORLDS。
It makes no difference abroad;
The seasons fit the same;
The mornings blossom into noons;
And split their pods of flame。
Wild…flowers kindle in the woods;
The brooks brag all the day;
No blackbird bates his jargoning
For passing Calvary。
Auto…da…fe and judgment
Are nothing to the bee;
His separation from his rose
To him seems misery。
XXI。
THE MOUNTAIN。
The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair;
His observation omnifold;
His inquest everywhere。
The seasons prayed around his knees;
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he;
Of dawn the ancestor。
XXII。
A DAY。
I'll tell you how the sun rose;
A ribbon at a time。
The steeples swam in amethyst;
The news like squirrels ran。
The hills untied their bonnets;
The bobolinks begun。
Then I said softly to myself;
〃That must have been the sun!〃
* * *
But how he set; I know not。
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side;
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars;
And led the flock away。
XXIII。
The butterfiy's assumption…gown;
In chrysoprase apartments hung;
This afternoon put on。
How condescending to descend;
And be of buttercups the friend
In a New England town!
XXIV。
THE WIND。
Of all the sounds despatched abroad;
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs;
That phraseless melody
The wind does; working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky;
Then quiver down; with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me。
When winds go round and round in bands;
And thrum upon the door;
And birds take places overhead;
To bear them orchestra;
I crave him grace; of summer boughs;
If such an outcast be;
He never heard that fleshless chant
Rise solemn in the tree;
As if some caravan of sound
On deserts; in the sky;
Had broken rank;
Then knit; and passed
In seamless company。
XXV。
DEATH AND LIFE。
Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower;
The frost beheads it at its play
In accidental power。
The blond assassin passes on;
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God。
XXVI。
'T WAS later when the summer went
Than when the cricket came;
And yet we knew that gentle clock
Meant nought but going home。
'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came;
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps esoteric time。
XXVII。
INDIAN SUMMER。
These are the days when birds come back;
A very few; a bird or two;
To take a backward look。
These are the days when skies put on
The old; old sophistries of June;
A blue and gold mistake。
Oh; fraud that cannot cheat the bee;
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief;
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear;
And softly through the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf!
Oh; sacrament of summer days;
Oh; last communion in the haze;
Permit a child to join;
Thy sacred emblems to partake;
Thy consecrated bread to break;
Taste thine immortal wine!
XXVIII。
AUTUMN。
The morns are meeker than they were;
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper;
The rose is out of town。
The maple wears a gayer scarf;
The field a scarlet gown。
Lest I should be old…fashioned;
I'll put a trinket on。
XXIX。
BECLOUDED。
The sky is low; the clouds are mean;
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go。
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature; like us; is sometimes caught
Without her diadem。
XXX。
THE HEMLOCK。
I think the hemlock likes to stand
Upon a marge of snow;
It suits his own austerity;
And satisfies an awe
That men must slake in wilderness;
Or in the desert cloy;
An instinct for the hoar; the bald;
Lapland's necessity。
The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;
The gnash of northern winds
Is sweetest nutriment to him;
His best Norwegian wines。
To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play;
And Dnieper wrestlers run。
XXXI。
There's a certain slant of light;
On winter afternoons;
That oppresses; like the weight
Of cathedral tunes。
Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar;
But internal difference
Where the meanings are。
None may teach it anything;
' T is the seal; despair;
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air。
When it comes; the landscape listens;
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes; 't is like the distance
On the look of death。
IV。
TIME AND ETERNITY。
I。
One dignity delays for all;
One mitred afternoon。
None can avoid this purple;
None evade this crown。
Coach it insures; and footmen;
Chamber and state and throng;
Bells; also; in the village;
As we ride grand along。
What dignified attendants;
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!
How pomp surpassing ermine;
When simple you and I
Present our meek escutcheon;
And claim the rank to die!
II。
TOO LATE。
Delayed till she had ceased to know;
Delayed till in its vest of snow
Her loving bosom lay。
An hour behind the fleeting breath;
Later by just an hour than death;
Oh; lagging yesterday!
Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace;
Who knows but this surrendered face
Were undefeated still?
Oh; if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round;
Show them this meek apparelled thing;
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