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the home book of verse-1-第68部分

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The old wind stirs the hawthorn tree;

The tree is blossoming;

Northward the road runs to the sea;

And past the House of Spring。



The folk go down it unafraid;

The still roofs rise before;

When you were lad and I was maid;

Wide open stood the door。



Now; other children crowd the stair;

And hunt from room to room;

Outside; under the hawthorn fair;

We pluck the thorny bloom。



Out in the quiet road we stand;

Shut in from wharf and mart;

The old wind blowing up the land;

The old thoughts at our heart。 



Lizette Woodworth Reese '1856…1935'





THE TRIUMPH OF FORGOTTEN THINGS



There is a pity in forgotten things;

Banished the heart they can no longer fill;

Since restless Fancy; spreading swallow wings;

Must seek new pleasures still!



There is a patience; too; in things forgot;

They wait … they find the portal long unused;

And knocking there; it shall refuse them not; …

Nor aught shall be refused!



Ah; yes! though we; unheeding years on years;

In alien pledges spend the heart's estate;

They bide some blessed moment of quick tears …

Some moment without date …



Some gleam on flower; or leaf; or beaded dew;

Some tremble at the ear of memoried sound

Of mother…song; … they seize the slender clew; …

The old loves gather round!



When that which lured us once now lureth not;

But the tired hands their garnered dross let fall;

This is the triumph of the things forgot …

To hear the tired heart call!



And they are with us at Life's farthest reach;

A light when into shadow all else dips;

As; in the stranger's land; their native speech

Returns to dying lips!



Edith M。 Thomas '1854…1925'





IN THE TWILIGHT



Men say the sullen instrument;

That; from the Master's bow;

With pangs of joy or woe;

Feels music's soul through every fibre sent;

Whispers the ravished strings

More than he knew or meant;

Old summers in its memory glow;

The secrets of the wind it sings;

It hears the April…loosened springs;

And mixes with its mood

All it dreamed when it stood

In the murmurous pine…wood

Long ago!



The magical moonlight then

Steeped every bough and cone;

The roar of the brook in the glen

Came dim from the distance blown;

The wind through its glooms sang low;

And it swayed to and fro;

With delight as it stood;

In the wonderful wood;

Long ago!



O my life; have we not had seasons

That only said; Live and rejoice?

That asked not for causes and reasons;

But made us all feeling and voice?

When we went with the winds in their blowing;

When Nature and we were peers;

And we seemed to share in the flowing

Of the inexhaustible years?

Have we not from the earth drawn juices

Too fine for earth's sordid uses?

Have I heard; have I seen

All I feel; all I know?

Doth my heart overween?

Or could it have been

Long ago?



Sometimes a breath floats by me;

An odor from Dreamland sent;

That makes the ghost seem nigh me

Of a splendor that came and went;

Of a life lived somewhere; I know not

In what diviner sphere;

Of memories that stay not and go not;

Like music heard once by an ear

That cannot forget or reclaim it;

A something so shy; it would shame it

To make it a show;

A something too vague; could I name it;

For others to know;

As if I had lived it or dreamed it;

As if I had acted or schemed it;

Long ago!



And yet; could I live it over;


This life that stirs in my brain;

Could I be both maiden and lover;

Moon and tide; bee and clover;

As I seem to have been; once again;

Could I but speak it and show it;

This pleasure more sharp than pain;

That baffles and lures me so;

The world should once more have a poet;

Such as it had

In the ages glad;

Long ago!



James Russell Lowell '1819…1891'





AN IMMORALITY



Sing we for love and idleness;

Naught else is worth the having。

Though I have been in many a land;

There is naught else in living。



And I would rather have my sweet;

Though rose…leaves die of grieving;

Than do high deeds in Hungary

To pass all men's believing。



Ezra Pound '1885…





THREE SEASONS



〃A cup for hope!〃 she said;

In springtime ere the bloom was old:

The crimson wine was poor and cold

By her mouth's richer red。



〃A cup for love!〃 how low;

How soft the words; and all the while

Her blush was rippling with a smile

Like summer after snow。



〃A cup for memory!〃

Cold cup that one must drain alone:

While autumn winds are up and moan

Across the barren sea。



Hope; memory; love:

Hope for fair morn; and love for day;

And memory for the evening gray

And solitary dove。



Christina Georgina Rossetti '1830…1894'





THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES



I have had playmates; I have had companions;

In my days of childhood; in my joyful schooldays; …

All; all are gone; the old familiar faces。



I have been laughing; I have been carousing;

Drinking late; sitting late; with my bosom cronies; …

All; all are gone; the old familiar faces。



I loved a Love once; fairest among women:

Closed are her doors on me; I must not see her; …

All; all are gone; the old familiar faces。



I have a friend; a kinder friend has no man:

Like an ingrate; I left my friend abruptly;

Left him; to muse on the old familiar faces。



Ghost…like; I paced round the haunts of my childhood。

Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse;

Seeking to find the old familiar faces。



Friend of my bosom; thou more than a brother;

Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling?

So might we talk of the old familiar faces … 



How some they have died; and some they have left me;

And some are taken from me; all are departed; …

All; all are gone; the old familiar faces。



Charles Lamb '1775…1834'





THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS



Oft in the stilly night;

Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me;

Fond memory brings the light

Of other days around me:

The smiles; the tears;

Of boyhood's years;

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone;

Now dimmed and gone;

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night;

Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me;

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me。



When I remember all

The friends; so linked together;

I've seen around me fall;

Like leaves in wintry weather;

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banquet…hall deserted;

Whose lights are fled;

Whose garlands dead;

And all but he departed!

Thus in the stilly night;

Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me;

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me。



Thomas Moore '1779…1852'





〃TEARS; IDLE TEARS〃

From 〃The Princess〃



Tears; idle tears; I know not what they mean;

Tears from the depth of some divine despair

Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes;

In looking on the happy Autumn…fields;

And thinking of the days that are no more。



Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail;

That brings our friends up from the underworld;

Sad as the last which reddens over one

That sinks with all we love below the verge;

So sad; so fresh; the days that are no more。



Ah; sad and strange as in dark summer dawns

The earliest pipe of half…awakened birds

To dying ears; when unto dying eyes

The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;

So sad; so strange; the days that are no more。



Dear as remembered kisses after death;

And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned

On lips that are for others; deep as love;

Deep as first love; and wild with all regret;

O Death in Life; the days that are no more!



Alfred Tennyson '1809…1892'





THE PET NAME



〃。 。 。 the name

Which from their lips seemed a caress。〃

            … Miss Milford's 〃Dramatic Scenes〃



I have a name; a little name;

Uncadenced for the ear;

Unhonored by ancestral claim;

Unsanctified by prayer and psalm

The solemn font anear。



It never did to pages wove

For gay romance belong;

It never dedicate did move

As 〃Sacharissa〃 unto love;

〃Orinda〃 unto song。



Though I write books; it will be read

Upon the leaves of none;

And afterward; when I am dead;

Will ne'er be graved for sight or tread;

Across my funeral…stone。



This name; whoever chance to call;

Perhaps your smile may win:

Nay; do not smile! mine eyelids fall

Over mine eyes and feel withal

The sudden tears within。



Is there a leaf; that greenly grows

Where summer meadows bloom;

But gathereth the winter snows;

And changeth to the hue of those;

If lasting till they come?



Is there a word; or jest; or game;

But time incrusteth round

With sad associate thoughts the same?

And so to me my very name

Assumes a mournful sound。



My brother gave that name to me

When we were children twain;

When names acquired baptismally

Were hard to utter; as to see

That life had any pain。



No shade was on us then; save one

Of chestnuts from the hill;

And through the word our laugh did run

As part thereof: the mirth being done;

He calls me by it still。



Nay; do not smile!  I hear in it

What none of you can hear; …

The talk upon the willow seat;

The bird and wind that did repeat

Around; our human cheer。



I hear the birthday's noisy bliss

My sisters' woodland glee;

My father's praise I did not miss

When stooping down; he cared to kiss

The poet at his knee; …



And voices which; to name me; aye

Their tenderest tones were keeping; …

To some I nevermore can say

An answer till God wipes away

In heaven these drops of weeping。



My name to me a sadness wears:

No murmurs cross my mind …

Now God be thanked for these thick tears;

Which show; of those departed years;

Sweet memories left behind。



Now God be thanked for years enwrought

With love which softens yet:

Now God be thanked for every thought

Which is so tender it 
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