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the home book of verse-3-第13部分
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And romp of spirit…children on the pave;
It is the tender sighing of the brave
Who fell; ah! long ago; in futile wars;
It is such sound as death; and; after all;
'Tis but the forest letting dead leaves fall。
Mahlon Leonard Fisher '1874…
STORM FEAR
When the wind works against us in the dark;
And pelts with snow
The lower chamber window on the east;
And whispers with a sort of stifled bark;
The beast;
〃Come out! Come out!〃 …
It costs no inward struggle not to go;
Ah; no!
I count our strength;
Two and a child;
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length; …
How drifts are piled;
Dooryard and road ungraded;
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided。
Robert Frost '1875…
WINTER: A DIRGE
The wintry west extends his blast;
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
The blinding sleet and snaw:
While; tumbling brown; the burn comes down;
And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest;
And pass the heartless day。
〃The sweeping blast; the sky o'ercast;〃
The joyless winter day。
Let others fear; … to me more dear
Than all the pride of May;
The tempest's howl; it soothes my soul;
My griefs it seems to join;
The leafless trees my fancy please;
Their fate resembles mine!
Thou Power Supreme; whose mighty scheme
These woes of mine fulfil;
Here; firm; I rest; … they must be best;
Because they are Thy will。
Then all I want (oh; do Thou grant
This one request of mine!)
Since to enjoy Thou dost deny;
Assist me to resign!
Robert Burns '1759…1796'
OLD WINTER
Old Whiter sad; in snow yclad;
Is making a doleful din;
But let him howl till he crack his jowl;
We will not let him in。
Ay; let him lift from the billowy drift
His hoary; haggard form;
And scowling stand; with his wrinkled hand
Outstretching to the storm。
And let his weird and sleety beard
Stream loose upon the blast;
And; rustling; chime to the tinkling rime
From his bald head falling fast。
Let his baleful breath shed blight and death
On herb and flower and tree;
And brooks and ponds in crystal bonds
Bind fast; but what care we?
Let him push at the door; … in the chimney roar;
And rattle the window…pane;
Let him in at us spy with his icicle eye;
But he shall not entrance gain。
Let him gnaw; forsooth; with his freezing tooth;
On our roof…tiles; till he tire;
But we care not a whit; as we jovial sit
Before our blazing fire。
Come; lads; let's sing; till the rafters ring;
Come; push the can about; …
From our snug fire…side this Christmas…tide
We'll keep old Winter out。
Thomas Noel '1799…1861'
THE FROST
The Frost looked forth; one still; clear night;
And he said; 〃Now I shall be out of sight;
So through the valley and over the height
In silence I'll take my way。
I will not go like that blustering train;
The wind and the snow; the hail and the rain;
Who make so much bustle and noise in vain;
But I'll be as busy as they!〃
Then he went to the mountain; and powdered its crest;
He climbed up the trees; and their boughs he dressed
With diamonds and pearls; and over the breast
Of the quivering lake he spread
A coat of mail; that it need not fear
The downward point of many a spear
That he hung on its margin; far and near;
Where a rock could rear its head。
He went to the windows of those who slept;
And over each pane like a fairy crept;
Wherever he breathed; wherever he stepped;
By the light of the moon were seen
Most beautiful things。 There were flowers and trees;
There were bevies of birds and swarms of bees;
There were cities; thrones; temples; and towers; and these
All pictured in silver sheen!
But he did one thing that was hardly fair; …
He peeped in the cupboard; and; finding there
That all had forgotten for him to prepare; …
〃Now; just to set them a…thinking;
I'll bite this basket of fruit;〃 said he;
〃This costly pitcher I'll burst in three;
And the glass of water they've left for me
Shall 'tchick!' to tell them I'm drinking。〃
Hannah Flagg Gould '1789…1865'
THE FROSTED PANE
One night came Winter noiselessly and leaned
Against my window…pane。
In the deep stillness of his heart convened
The ghosts of all his slain。
Leaves; and ephemera; and stars of earth;
And fugitives of grass; …
White spirits loosed from bonds of mortal birth;
He drew them on the glass。
Charles G。 D。 Roberts '1860…
THE FROST SPIRIT
He comes; … he comes; … the Frost Spirit comes! You may trace his
footsteps now
On the naked woods and the blasted fields and the brown hill's
withered brow。
He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees where their pleasant
green came forth;
And the winds; which follow wherever he goes; have shaken them down
to earth。
He comes; … he comes; … the Frost Spirit comes! from the frozen Labrador;
From the icy bridge of the Northern seas; which the white bear
wanders o'er;
Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice and the luckless forms below
In the sunless cold of the lingering night into marble statues grow!
He comes; … he comes; … the Frost Spirit comes! on the rushing
Northern blast;
And the dark Norwegian pines have bowed as his fearful breath went past。
With an unscorched wing he has hurried on; where the fires of Hecla glow
On the darkly beautiful sky above and the ancient ice below。
He comes; … he comes; … the Frost Spirit comes! and the quiet lake
shall feel
The torpid touch of his glazing breath; and ring to the skater's heel;
And the streams which danced on the broken rocks; or sang to the
leaning grass;
Shall bow again to their winter chain; and in mournful silence pass。
He comes; … he comes; … the Frost Spirit comes! Let us meet him as we may;
And turn with the light of the parlor…fire his evil power away;
And gather closer the circle round; when that firelight dances high;
And laugh at the shriek of the baffled Fiend as his sounding wing goes by!
John Greenleaf Whittier '1807…1892'
SNOW
Lo; what wonders the day hath brought;
Born of the soft and slumbrous snow!
Gradual; silent; slowly wrought;
Even as an artist; thought by thought;
Writes expression on lip and brow。
Hanging garlands the eaves o'erbrim;
Deep drifts smother the paths below;
The elms are shrouded; trunk and limb;
And all the air is dizzy and dim
With a whirl of dancing; dazzling snow。
Dimly out of the baffled sight
Houses and church…spires stretch away;
The trees; all spectral and still and white;
Stand up like ghosts in the failing light;
And fade and faint with the blinded day。
Down from the roofs in gusts are hurled
The eddying drifts to the waste below;
And still is the banner of storm unfurled;
Till all the drowned and desolate world
Lies dumb and white in a trance of snow。
Slowly the shadows gather and fall;
Still the whispering snow…flakes beat;
Night and darkness are over all:
Rest; pale city; beneath their pall!
Sleep; white world; in thy winding…sheet!
Clouds may thicken; and storm…winds breathe:
On my wall is a glimpse of Rome; …
Land of my longing! … and underneath
Swings and trembles my olive…wreath;
Peace and I are at home; at home!
Elizabeth Akers '1832…1911'
TO A SNOW…FLAKE
What heart could have thought you? …
Past our devisal
(O filigree petal!)
Fashioned so purely;
Fragilely; surely;
From what Paradisal
Imagineless metal;
Too costly for cost?
Who hammered you; wrought you;
From argentine vapor? …
God was my shaper。
Passing surmisal;
He hammered; He wrought me;
From curled silver vapor;
To lust of His mind: …
Thou couldst not have thought me!
So purely; so palely;
Tinily; surely;
Mightily; frailly;
Insculped and embossed;
With His hammer of wind;
And His graver of frost。〃
Francis Thompson '1859?…1907'
THE SNOW…SHOWER
Stand here by my side and turn; I pray;
On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
The clouds hang over it; heavy and gray;
And dark and silent the water lies;
And out of that frozen mist the snow
In wavering flakes begins to flow;
Flake after flake
They sink in the dark and silent lake。
See how in a living swarm they come
From the chambers beyond that misty veil;
Some hover in air awhile; and some
Rush prone from the sky like summer hail。
All; dropping swiftly; or settling slow;
Meet; and are still in the depths below;
Flake after flake
Dissolved in the dark and silent lake。
Here delicate snow…stars; out of the cloud;
Come floating downward in airy play;
Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd
That whiten by night the Milky Way;
There broader and burlier masses fall;
The sullen water buries them all; …
Flake after flake; …
All drowned in the dark and silent lake。
And some; as on tender wings they glide
From their chilly birth…cloud; dim and gray;
Are joined in their fall; and; side by side;
Come clinging along their unsteady way;
As friend with friend; or husband with wife;
Makes hand in hand the passage of life;
Each mated flake
Soon sinks in the dark and silent lake。
Lo! while we are gazing; in swifter haste
Stream down the snows; till the air is white;
As; myriads by myriads madly chased;
They fling themselves from their shadowy height。
The fair; frail creatures of middle sky;
What speed they make; with their grave so nigh;
Flake after flake
To lie in the dark and silent lake。
I see in thy gentle eyes a tear;
They turn to me in sorrowful thought;
Thou thinkest of friends; the good and dear;
Who were for a time; an
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