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the home book of verse-3-第10部分
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Ah! my heart is weary waiting;
Waiting for the May; …
Waiting for the pleasant rambles
Where the fragrant hawthorn…brambles;
With the woodbine alternating;
Scent the dewy way。
Ah! my heart is weary waiting;
Waiting for the May。
Ah! my heart is sick with longing;
Longing for the May; …
Longing to escape from study
To the young face fair and ruddy;
And the thousand charms belonging
To the summer's day。
Ah! my heart is sick with longing;
Longing for the May。
Ah! my heart is sore with sighing;
Sighing for the May; …
Sighing for their sure returning;
When the summer beams are burning;
Hopes and flowers that; dead or dying;
All the winter lay。
Ah! my heart is sore with sighing;
Sighing for the May。
Ah! my heart is pained with throbbing;
Throbbing for the May; …
Throbbing for the seaside billows;
Or the water…wooing willows;
Where; in laughing and in sobbing;
Glide the streams away。
Ah! my heart; my heart is throbbing;
Throbbing for the May。
Waiting sad; dejected; weary;
Waiting for the May:
Spring goes by with wasted warnings; …
Moonlit evenings; sunbright mornings; …
Summer comes; yet dark and dreary
Life still ebbs away;
Man is ever weary; weary;
Waiting for the May!
Denis Florence MacCarthy '1817…1882'
MIDSUMMER
Around this lovely valley rise
The purple hills of Paradise。
O; softly on yon banks of haze;
Her rosy face the Summer lays!
Becalmed along the azure sky;
The argosies of cloudland lie;
Whose shores; with many a shining rift;
Far off their pearl…white peaks uplift。
Through all the long midsummer…day
The meadow…sides are sweet with hay。
I seek the coolest sheltered seat;
Just where the field and forest meet;…
Where grow the pine…trees tall and bland;
The ancient oaks austere and grand;
And fringy roots and pebbles fret
The ripples of the rivulet。
I watch the mowers; as they go
Through the tall grass; a white…sleeved row。
With even stroke their scythes they swing;
In tune their merry whetstones ring。
Behind the nimble youngsters run;
And toss the thick swaths in the sun。
The cattle graze; while; warm and still;
Slopes the broad pasture; basks the hill;
And bright; where summer breezes break;
The green wheat crinkles like a lake。
The butterfly and humblebee
Come to the pleasant woods with me;
Quickly before me runs the quail;
Her chickens skulk behind the rail;
High up the lone wood…pigeon sits;
And the woodpecker pecks and flits。
Sweet woodland music sinks and swells;
The brooklet rings its tinkling bells;
The swarming insects drone and hum;
The partridge beats its throbbing drum。
The squirrel leaps among the boughs;
And chatters in his leafy house。
The oriole flashes by; and; look!
Into the mirror of the brook;
Where the vain bluebird trims his coat;
Two tiny feathers fall and float。
As silently; as tenderly;
The down of peace descends on me。
O; this is peace! I have no need
Of friend to talk; of book to read:
A dear Companion here abides;
Close to my thrilling heart He hides;
The holy silence is His Voice:
I lie and listen; and rejoice。
John Townsend Trowbridge '1827…1916'
A MIDSUMMER SONG
O; Father's gone to market…town; he was up before the day;
And Jamie's after robins; and the man is making hay;
And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill;
While mother from the kitchen…door is calling with a will:
〃Polly! … Polly! … The cows are in the corn!
O; where's Polly?〃
From all the misty morning air there comes a summer sound …
A murmur as of waters from skies and trees and ground。
The birds they sing upon the wing; the pigeons bill and coo;
And over hill and hollow rings again the loud halloo:
〃Polly! … Polly! … The cows are in the corn!
O; where's Polly?〃
Above the trees the honey…bees swarm by with buzz and boom;
And in the field and garden a thousand blossoms bloom。
Within the farmer's meadow a brown…eyed daisy blows;
And down at the edge of the hollow a red and thorny rose。
But Polly! … Polly! … The cows are in the corn!
O; where's Polly?
How strange at such a time of day the mill should stop its clatter!
The farmer's wife is listening now and wonders what's the matter。
O; wild the birds are singing in the wood and on the hill;
While whistling up the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill。
But Polly! … Polly! … The cows are in the corn!
O; where's Polly?
Richard Watson Glider '1844…1909'
JUNE
From the Prelude to 〃The Vision of Sir Launfal〃
Over his keys the musing organist;
Beginning doubtfully and far away;
First lets his fingers wander as they list;
And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay:
Then; as the touch of his loved instrument
Gives hope and fervor; nearer draws his theme;
First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent
Along the wavering vista of his dream。
Not only around our infancy
Doth heaven with all its splendors lie;
Daily; with souls that cringe and plot;
We Sinais climb and know it not。
Over our manhood bend the skies;
Against our fallen and traitor lives
The great winds utter prophecies;
With our faint hearts the mountain strives;
Its arms outstretched; the druid wood
Waits with its benedicite;
And to our age's drowsy blood
Still shouts the inspiring sea。
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in;
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us;
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
At the devil's booth are all things sold;
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;
For a cap and bells our lives we pay;
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking:
'Tis heaven alone that is given away;
'Tis only God may be had for the asking;
No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest corner。
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then; if ever; come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune;
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look; or whether we listen;
We hear life murmur; or see it glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might;
An instinct within it that reaches and towers;
And; groping blindly above it for light;
Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers;
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys;
The cowslip startles in meadows green;
The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice;
And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean
To be some happy creature's palace;
The little bird sits at his door in the sun;
Atilt like a blossom among the leaves;
And lets his illumined being o'errun
With the deluge of summer it receives;
His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings;
And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings;
He sings to the wide world and she to her nest; …
In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Now is the high…tide of the year;
And whatever of life hath ebbed away
Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer;
Into every bare inlet and creek and bay;
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it;
No matter how barren the past may have been;
'Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green;
We sit in the warm shade and feel right well
How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell;
We may shut our eyes; but we cannot help knowing
That skies are clear and grass is growing;
The breeze comes whispering in our ear;
That dandelions are blossoming near;
That maize has sprouted; that streams are flowing;
That the river is bluer than the sky;
That the robin is plastering his house hard by;
And if the breeze kept the good news back;
For other couriers we should not lack;
We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing;
And hark! how clear bold chanticleer;
Warmed with the new wine of the year;
Tells all in his lusty crowing!
James Russell Lowell '1819…1891'
JUNE
When the bubble moon is young;
Down the sources of the breeze;
Like a yellow lantern hung
In the tops of blackened trees;
There is promise she will grow
Into beauty unforetold;
Into all unthought…of gold。
Heigh ho!
When the Spring has dipped her foot;
Like a bather; in the air;
And the ripples warm the root
Till the little flowers dare;
There is promise she will grow
Sweeter than the Springs of old;
Fairer than was ever told。
Heigh ho!
But the moon of middle night;
Risen; is the rounded moon;
And the Spring of budding light
Eddies into just a June。
Ah; the promise … was it so?
Nay; the gift was fairy gold;
All the new is over…old。
Heigh ho!
Harrison Smith Morris '1856…
HARVEST
Sweet; sweet; sweet;
Is the wind's song;
Astir in the rippled wheat
All day long;
It hath the brook's wild gayety;
The sorrowful cry of the sea。
Oh; hush and hear!
Sweet; sweet and clear;
Above the locust's whirr
And hum of bee
Rises that soft; pathetic harmony。
In the meadow…grass
The innocent white daisies blow;
The dandelion plume doth pass
Vaguely to and fro; …
The unquiet spirit of a flower
That hath too brief an hour。
Now doth a little cloud all white;
Or golden bright;
Drift down the warm; blue sky;
And now on the horizon line;
Where dusky woodlands lie;
A sunny mist doth shine;
Like to a veil before a holy shrine;
Concealing; half…revealing; things divine。
Sweet; sweet; sweet;
Is the wind's song;
Astir in the rippled wheat
All day long。
That exquisite music calls
The reaper everywhere …
Life and death must share。
The golden harvest falls。
So doth all end; …
Honored Philosophy;
Science and Art;
The bloom of the heart; …
Master; Consoler; Friend;
Make Thou the harvest of our days
To fall within Thy ways。
Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz '?…1933'
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