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the home book of verse-3-第11部分
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To fall within Thy ways。
Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz '?…1933'
SCYTHE SONG
Mowers; weary and brown; and blithe;
What is the word methinks ye know;
Endless over…word that the Scythe
Sings to the blades of the grass below?
Scythes that swing in the grass and clover;
Something; still; they say as they pass;
What is the word that; over and over;
Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?
Hush; ah hush; the Scythes are saying;
Hush; and heed not; and fall asleep;
Hush; they say to the grasses swaying;
Hush; they sing to the clover deep!
Hush … 'tis the lullaby Time is singing …
Hush; and heed not; for all things pass;
Hush; ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging
Over the clover; over the grass!
Andrew Lang '1844…1912'
SEPTEMBER
Sweet is the voice that calls
From babbling waterfalls
In meadows where the downy seeds are flying;
And soft the breezes blow;
And eddying come and go;
In faded gardens where the rose is dying。
Among the stubbled corn
The blithe quail pipes at morn;
The merry partridge drums in hidden places;
And glittering insects gleam
Above the reedy stream;
Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces。
At eve; cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall;
And on the clustered grapes to purple turning;
And pearly vapors lie
Along the eastern sky;
Where the broad harvest…moon is redly burning。
Ah; soon on field and hill
The winds shall whistle chill;
And patriarch swallows call their flocks together
To fly from frost and snow;
And seek for lands where blow
The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather。
The pollen…dusted bees
Search for the honey…lees
That linger in the last flowers of September;
While plaintive mourning doves
Coo sadly to their loves
Of the dead summer they so well remember。
The cricket chirps all day;
〃O fairest summer; stay!〃
The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts browning;
The wild fowl fly afar
Above the foamy bar;
And hasten southward ere the skies are frowning。
Now comes a fragrant breeze
Through the dark cedar…trees;
And round about my temples fondly lingers;
In gentle playfulness;
Like to the soft caress
Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers。
Yet; though a sense of grief
Comes with the falling leaf;
And memory makes the summer doubly pleasant;
In all my autumn dreams
A future summer gleams;
Passing the fairest glories of the present!
George Arnold '1834…1865'
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!
Emily Dickinson '1830…1886'
PREVISION
Oh; days of beauty standing veiled apart;
With dreamy skies and tender; tremulous air;
In this rich Indian summer of the heart
Well may the earth her jewelled halo wear。
The long brown fields … no longer drear and dull …
Burn with the glow of these deep…hearted hours。
Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful;
More spiritlike than even summer's flowers。
But yesterday the world was stricken bare;
Left old and dead in gray; enshrouding gloom;
To…day what vivid wonder of the air
Awakes the soul of vanished light and bloom?
Sharp with the clean; fine ecstasy of death;
A mightier wind shall strike the shrinking earth;
An exhalation of creative breath
Wake the white wonder of the winter's birth。
In her wide Pantheon … her temple place …
Wrapped in strange beauty and new comforting;
We shall not miss the Summer's full…blown grace;
Nor hunger for the swift; exquisite Spring。
Ada Foster Murray '1857…1936'
A SONG OF EARLY AUTUMN
When late in summer the streams run yellow;
Burst the bridges and spread into bays;
When berries are black and peaches are mellow;
And hills are hidden by rainy haze;
When the goldenrod is golden still;
But the heart of the sunflower is darker and sadder;
When the corn is in stacks on the slope of the hill;
And slides o'er the path the striped adder;
When butterflies flutter from clover to thicket;
Or wave their wings on the drooping leaf;
When the breeze comes shrill with the call of the cricket;
Grasshopper's rasp; and rustle of sheaf;
When high in the field the fern…leaves wrinkle;
And brown is the grass where the mowers have mown;
When low in the meadow the cow…bells tinkle;
And small brooks crinkle o'er stock and stone;
When heavy and hollow the robin's whistle
And shadows are deep in the heat of noon;
When the air is white with the down o' the thistle;
And the sky is red with the harvest moon;
O; then be chary; young Robert and Mary;
No time let slip; not a moment wait!
If the fiddle would play it must stop its tuning;
And they who would wed must be done with their mooning;
So let the churn rattle; see well to the cattle;
And pile the wood by the barn…yard gate!
Richard Watson Gilder '1844…1909'
TO AUTUMN
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom…friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch…eaves run;
To bend with apples the mossed cottage…trees;
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd; and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more;
And still more; later flowers for the bees;
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells。
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor;
Thy hair soft…lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half…reaped furrow sound asleep;
Drowsed with the fume of poppies; while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider…press; with patient look;
Thou watchest the last oozings; hours by hours。
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay; where are they?
Think not of them; thou hast thy music too;
While barred clouds bloom the soft…dying day
And touch the stubble…plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river shallows; borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full…grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge…crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden…croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies。
John Keats '1795…1821'
ODE TO AUTUMN
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence; listening
To silence; for no lonely bird would sing
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn;
Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; …
Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright
With tangled gossamer that fell by night;
Pearling his coronet of golden corn。
Where are the songs of Summer? … With the sun;
Oping the dusky eyelids of the South;
Till shade and silence waken up as one;
And Morning sings with a warm odorous mouth。
Where are the merry birds? … Away; away;
On panting wings through the inclement skies;
Lest owls should prey
Undazzled at noonday;
And tear with horny beak their lustrous eyes。
Where are the blooms of Summer? … In the West;
Blushing their last to the last sunny hours;
When the mild Eve by sudden Night is pressed
Like tearful Prosperine; snatched from her flowers;
To a most gloomy breast。
Where is the pride of Summer; … the green prime; …
The many; many leaves all twinkling? … Three
On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime
Trembling; … and one upon the old oak…tree!
Where is the Dryad's immortality? …
Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew;
Or wearing the long gloomy Winter through
In the smooth holly's green eternity。
The squirrel gloats on his accomplished hoard;
The ants have brimmed their garners with ripe grain;
And honey bees have stored
The sweets of Summer in their luscious cells;
The swallows all have winged across the main;
But here the Autumn melancholy dwells;
And sighs her tearful spells
Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain。
Alone; alone;
Upon a mossy stone;
She sits and reckons up the dead and gone;
With the last leaves for a love…rosary;
Whilst all the withered world looks drearily;
Like a dim picture of the drowned past
In the hushed mind's mysterious far away;
Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last
Into that distance; gray upon the gray。
O go and sit with her; and be o'ershaded
Under the languid downfall of her hair:
She wears a coronal of flowers faded
Upon her forehead; and a face of care; …
There is enough of withered everywhere
To make her bower; … and enough of gloom;
There is enough of sadness to invite;
If only for the rose that died; whose doom
Is Beauty's; … she that with the living bloom
Of conscious cheeks most beautifies the light:
There is enough of sorrowing; and quite
Enough of bitter fruits the earth doth bear; …
Enough of chilly droppings for her bowl;
Enough of fear and shadowy despair;
To frame her cloudy prison for the soul!
Thomas Hood '1799…1845'
ODE TO THE WEST WIND
I
O Wild West Wind; thou breath of Autumn's being;
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven; like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing;
Yellow and black; and pale; and hectic red;
Pestilence stricken multitude
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