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the home book of verse-1-第58部分

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Upon the growing Boy;

But he beholds the light; and whence it flows;

He sees it in his joy;

The Youth; who daily farther from the East

Must travel; still is Nature's Priest;

And by the vision spendid

Is on his way attended;

At length the Man perceives it die away;

And fade into the light of common day。



VI

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;

Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind;

And even with something of a Mother's mind;

And no unworthy aim;

The homely Nurse doth all she can;

To make her Foster…child; her Inmate Man;

Forget the glories he hath known;

And that imperial palace whence he came。



VII

Behold the Child among his new…born blisses;

A six years' darling of a pigmy size!

See; where 'mid work of his own hand he lies;

Fretted by sallies of his Mother's kisses;

With light upon him from his Father's eyes!

See; at his feet; some little plan or chart;

Some fragment from his dream of human life;

Shaped by himself with newly…learned art;

A wedding or a festival;

A mourning or a funeral;

And this hath now his heart;

And unto this he frames his song:

Then will he fit his tongue

To dialogues of business; love; or strife:

But it will not be long

Ere this be thrown aside;

And with new joy and pride

The little Actor cons another part;

Filling from time to time his 〃humorous stage〃

With all the Persons; down to palsied Age;

That Life brings with her in her equipage;

As if his whole vocation

Were endless imitation。



VIII

Thou; whose exterior semblance doth belie

Thy Soul's immensity;

Thou best Philosopher; who yet dost keep

Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind;

That; deaf and silent; read'st the eternal deep;

Haunted for ever by the eternal mind; …

Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!

On whom those truths do rest;

Which we are toiling all our lives to find;

In darkness lost; the darkness of the grave:

Thou; over whom thy Immortality

Broods like the Day; a master o'er a Slave;

A Presence which is not to be put by;

Thou little Child; yet glorious in the might

Of heaven…born freedom on thy being's height;

Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke

The years to bring the inevitable yoke;

Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?

Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight;

And Custom lie upon thee with a weight

Heavy as frost; and deep almost as life!



IX

O joy! that in our embers

Is something that doth live;

That nature yet remembers

What was so fugitive!

The thought of our past years in me doth breed

Perpetual benediction: not indeed

For that which is most worthy to be blest …

Delight and liberty; the simple creed

Of Childhood; whether busy or at rest;

With new…fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: …

Not for these I raise

The song of thanks and praise;

But for those obstinate questionings

Of sense and outward things;

Fallings from us; vanishings;

Blank misgivings of a Creature

Moving about in worlds not realized;

High instincts before which our mortal Nature

Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:

But for those first affections;

Those shadowy recollections;

Which; be they what they may;

Are yet the fountain…light of all our day;

Are yet a master…light of all our seeing;

Uphold us; cherish; and have power to make

Our noisy years seem moments in the being

Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake;

To perish never;

Which neither listlessness; nor mad endeavor;

Nor Man nor Boy;

Nor all that is at enmity with joy;

Can utterly abolish or destroy!

Hence; in a season of calm weather;

Though inland far we be;

Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea

Which brought us hither;

Can in a moment travel thither

And see the children sport upon the shore;

And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore。



X

Then sing; ye Birds; sing; sing a joyous song!

And let the young Lambs bound

As to the tabor's sound!

We in thought will join your throng;

Ye that pipe and ye that play;

Ye that through your hearts to…day

Feel the gladness of the May!

What though the radiance which was once so bright

Be now for ever taken from my sight;

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass; of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not; rather find

Strength in what remains behind;

In the primal sympathy

Which having been must ever be;

In the soothing thoughts that spring

Out of human suffering;

In the faith that looks through death;

In years that bring the philosophic mind。



XI

And O; ye Fountains; Meadows; Hills; and Groves;

Forebode not any severing of our loves!

Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;

I only have relinquished one delight

To live beneath your more habitual sway。

I love the Brooks; which down their channels fret;

Even more than when I tripped lightly as they:

The innocent brightness of a new…born Day

Is lovely yet;

The Clouds that gather round the setting sun

Do take a sober coloring from an eye

That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;

Another race hath been; and other palms are won。

Thanks to the human heart by which we live;

Thanks to its tenderness; its joys; and fears;

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears。



William Wordsworth '1770…1850'













THE WOMAN













WOMAN 



Not she with traitorous kiss her Saviour stung;

Not she denied him with unholy tongue;

She; while apostles shrank; could dangers brave;

Last at the cross and earliest at the grave。



Eaton Stannard Barrett '1786…1820'





WOMAN



There in the fane a beauteous creature stands;

The first best work of the Creator's hands;

Whose slender limbs inadequately bear

A full…orbed bosom and a weight of care;

Whose teeth like pearls; whose lips like cherries; show;

And fawn…like eyes still tremble as they glow。



From the Sanskrit of Calidasa





SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS

From 〃Epicoene〃



Still to be neat; still to be dressed

As you were going to a feast;

Still to be powdered; still perfumed:

Lady; it is to be presumed;

Though art's hid causes are not found;

All is not sweet; all is not sound。



Give me a look; give me a face;

That makes simplicity a grace;

Robes loosely flowing; hair as free:

Such sweet neglect more taketh me

Than all the adulteries of art;

They strike mine eyes; but not my heart。



Ben Jonson '1573?…1637'





DELIGHT IN DISORDER



A sweet disorder in the dress

Kindles in clothes a wantonness:

A lawn about the shoulders thrown

Into a fine distraction:

An erring lace; which here and there

Enthrals the crimson stomacher:

A cuff neglectful; and thereby

Ribbons to flow confusedly:

A winning wave; deserving note;

In the tempestuous petticoat:

A careless shoe…string; in whose tie

I see a wild civility:

Do more bewitch me than when art

Is too precise in every part。



Robert Herrick '1591…1674'





A PRAISE OF HIS LADY



Give place; you ladies; and begone!

Boast not yourselves at all!

For here at hand approacheth one

Whose face will stain you all。



The virtue of her lively looks

Excels the precious stone;

I wish to have none other books

To read or look upon。



In each of her two crystal eyes

Smileth a naked boy;

It would you all in heart suffice

To see that lamp of joy。



I think Nature hath lost the mould

Where she her shape did take;

Or else I doubt if Nature could

So fair a creature make。



She may be well compared

Unto the Phoenix kind;

Whose like was never seen nor heard;

That any man can find。



In life she is Diana chaste;

In truth Penelope;

In word and eke in deed steadfast。

What will you more we say?



If all the world were sought so far;

Who could find such a wight?

Her beauty twinkleth like a star

Within the frosty night。



Her roseal color comes and goes

With such a comely grace;

More ruddier; too; than doth the rose

Within her lively face。



At Bacchus' feast none shall her meet;

Nor at no wanton play;

Nor gazing in an open street;

Nor gadding as a stray。



The modest mirth that she doth use

Is mixed with shamefastness;

All vice she doth wholly refuse;

And hateth idleness。



O Lord! it is a world to see

How virtue can repair;

And deck her in such honesty;

Whom Nature made so fair。



Truly she doth so far exceed

Our women nowadays;

As doth the gillyflower a weed;

And more a thousand ways。



How might I do to get a graff

Of this unspotted tree?

For all the rest are plain but chaff;

Which seem good corn to be。



This gift alone I shall her give:

When death doth what he can;

Her honest fame shall ever live

Within the mouth of man。



John Heywood '1497?…1580?'





ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT



I know a thing that's most uncommon;

(Envy; be silent and attend!)

I know a reasonable woman;

Handsome and witty; yet a friend。



Not warped by passion; awed by rumor;

Not grave through pride; nor gay through folly;

An equal mixture of good…humor

And sensible soft melancholy。



〃Has she no faults then; (Envy says); Sir?〃

Yes; she has one; I must aver:

When all the world conspires to praise her;

The woman's deaf; and does not hear。



Alexander Pope '1688…1744'





PERFECT WOMAN



She was a phantom of delight

When first she gleamed upon my sight;

A lovely apparition; sent

To be a moment's ornament;

Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;

Like twilight's; too; her dusky hair;

But all things else about her drawn

From May…time and the cheerful dawn;

A dancing shape; an image gay;

To haunt; to startle; and waylay。



I saw her upon nearer view;

A Spirit; yet a Woman too!

Her household motions light and free;

And steps of virgin liberty;

A countenance in which did meet

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