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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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