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the home book of verse-3-第14部分

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Thou thinkest of friends; the good and dear;

Who were for a time; and now are not;

Like these fair children of cloud and frost;

That glisten a moment and then are lost; …

Flake after flake; …

All lost in the dark and silent lake。



Yet look again; for the clouds divide;

A gleam of blue on the water lies;

And far away; on the mountain…side;

A sunbeam falls from the opening skies;

But the hurrying host that flew between

The cloud and the water no more is seen;

Flake after flake;

At rest in the dark and silent lake。



William Cullen Bryant '1794…1878'





MIDWINTER



The speckled sky is dim with snow;

The light flakes falter and fall slow;

Athwart the hill…top; rapt and pale;

Silently drops a silvery veil;

And all the valley is shut in

By flickering curtains gray and thin。



But cheerily the chickadee

Singeth to me on fence and tree;

The snow sails round him as he sings;

White as the down of angels' wings。



I watch the slow flakes as they fall

On bank and brier and broken wall;

Over the orchard; waste and brown;

All noiselessly they settle down;

Tipping the apple…boughs; and each

Light quivering twig of plum and peach。



On turf and curb and bower…roof

The snow…storm spreads its ivory woof;

It paves with pearl the garden…walk;

And lovingly round tattered stalk

And shivering stem its magic weaves

A mantle fair as lily…leaves。



The hooded beehive; small and low;

Stands like a maiden in the snow;

And the old door…slab is half hid

Under an alabaster lid。

All day it snows: the sheeted post

Gleams in the dimness like a ghost;

All day the blasted oak has stood

A muffled wizard of the wood;

Garland and airy cap adorn

The sumach and the wayside thorn;

And clustering spangles lodge and shine

In the dark tresses of the pine。



The ragged bramble; dwarfed and old;

Shrinks like a beggar in the cold;

In surplice white the cedar stands;

And blesses him with priestly hands。



Still cheerily the chickadee

Singeth to me on fence and tree:

But in my inmost ear is heard

The music of a holier bird;

And heavenly thoughts; as soft and white

As snow…flakes; on my soul alight;

Clothing with love my lonely heart;

Healing with peace each bruised part;

Till all my being seems to be

Transfigured by their purity。



John Townsend Trowbridge '1827…1916'





A GLEE FOR WINTER



Hence; rude Winter! crabbed old fellow;

Never merry; never mellow!

Well…a…day! in rain and snow

What will keep one's heart aglow?

Groups of kinsmen; old and young;

Oldest they old friends among;

Groups of friends; so old and true

That they seem our kinsmen too;

These all merry all together

Charm away chill Winter weather。



What will kill this dull old fellow?

Ale that's bright; and wine that's mellow!

Dear old songs for ever new;

Some true love; and laughter too;

Pleasant wit; and harmless fun;

And a dance when day is done。

Music; friends so true and tried;

Whispered love by warm fireside;

Mirth at all times all together;

Make sweet May of Winter weather。



Alfred Domett '1811…1887'





THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR



Full knee…deep lies the winter snow;

And the winter winds are wearily sighing:

Toll ye the church…bell sad and slow;

And tread softly and speak low;

For the old year lies a…dying。

Old year; you must not die;

You came to us so readily;

You lived with us so steadily;

Old year; you shall not die。



He lieth still; he doth not move;

He will not see the dawn of day。

He hath no other life above;

He gave me a friend; and a true true…love;

And the New…year will take 'em away。

Old year; you must not go;

So long as you have been with us;

Such joy as you have seen with us;

Old year; you shall not go。



He frothed his bumpers to the brim;

A jollier year we shall not see。

But though his eyes are waxing dim;

And though his foes speak ill of him;

He was a friend to me。

Old year; you shall not die;

We did so laugh and cry with you;

I've half a mind to die with you;

Old year; if you must die。



He was full of joke and jest;

But all his merry quips are o'er。

To see him die; across the waste

His son and heir doth ride post…haste;

But he'll be dead before。

Every one for his own。

The night is starry and cold; my friend;

And the New…year; blithe and bold; my friend;

Comes up to take his own。



How hard he breathes! over the snow

I heard just now the crowing cock。

The shadows flicker to and fro:

The cricket chirps; the light burns low;

'Tis nearly twelve o'clock。

Shake hands before you die。

Old year; we'll dearly rue for you。

What is it we can do for you?

Speak out before you die。



His face is growing sharp and thin。

Alack! our friend is gone。

Close up his eyes; tie up his chin;

Step from the corpse; and let him in

That standeth there alone;

And waiteth at the door。

There's a new foot on the floor; my friend;

And a new face at the door; my friend;

A new face at the door。



Alfred Tennyson '1809…1892'





DIRGE FOR THE YEAR



〃Orphan Hours; the Year is dead:

Come and sigh; come and weep。〃

〃Merry Hours; smile instead;

For the Year is but asleep。

See; it smiles as it is sleeping;

Mocking your untimely weeping。〃



〃As an earthquake rocks a corse

In its coffin in the clay;

So white Winter; that rough nurse;


Rocks the death…cold Year to…day;

Solemn Hours! wail aloud

For your mother in her shroud。〃



〃As the wild air stirs and sways

The tree…swung cradle of a child;

So the breath of these rude days

Rocks the Year: … be calm and mild;

Trembling Hours; she will arise

With new love within her eyes。



〃January gray is here;

Like a sexton by her grave;

February bears the bier;

March with grief doth howl and rave;

And April weeps … but; O; ye Hours;

Follow with May's fairest flowers。〃



Percy Bysshe Shelley '1792…1822'















WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK













WALDEINSAMKEIT





I do not count the hours I spend

In wandering by the sea;

The forest is my loyal friend;

Like God it useth me。



In plains that room for shadows make

Of skirting hills to lie;

Bound in by streams which give and take

Their colors from the sky;



Or on the mountain…crest sublime;

Or down the oaken glade;

O what have I to do with time?

For this the day was made。



Cities of mortals woe…begone

Fantastic care derides;

But in the serious landscape lone

Stern benefit abides。



Sheen will tarnish; honey cloy;

And merry is only a mask of sad;

But; sober on a fund of joy;

The woods at heart are glad。



There the great Planter plants

Of fruitful worlds the grain;

And with a million spells enchants

The souls that walk in pain。



Still on the seeds of all he made

The rose of beauty burns;

Through times that wear and forms that fade;

Immortal youth returns。



The black ducks mounting from the lake;

The pigeon in the pines;

The bittern's boom; a desert make

Which no false art refines。



Down in yon watery nook;

Where bearded mists divide;

The gray old gods whom Chaos knew;

The sires of Nature; hide。



Aloft; in secret veins of air;

Blows the sweet breath of song;

O; few to scale those uplands dare;

Though they to all belong!



See thou bring not to field or stone

The fancies found in books;

Leave authors' eyes; and fetch your own;

To brave the landscape's looks。



Oblivion here thy wisdom is;

Thy thrift; the sleep of cares;

For a proud idleness like this

Crowns all thy mean affairs。



Ralph Waldo Emerson '1803…1882'





〃WHEN IN THE WOODS I WANDER ALL ALONE〃



When in the woods I wander all alone;

The woods that are my solace and delight;

Which I more covet than a prince's throne;

My toil by day and canopy by night;

(Light heart; light foot; light food; and slumber light;

These lights shall light us to old age's gate;

While monarchs; whom rebellious dreams affright;

Heavy with fear; death's fearful summons wait;)

Whilst here I wander; pleased to be alone;

Weighing in thought the worlds no…happiness;

I cannot choose but wonder at its moan;

Since so plain joys the woody life can bless:

Then live who may where honied words prevail;

I with the deer; and with the nightingale!



Edward Hovell…Thurlow '1781…1829'





OUT IN THE FIELDS



The little cares that fretted me;

I lost them yesterday

Among the fields above the sea;

Among the winds at play;

Among the lowing of the herds;

The rustling of the trees;

Among the singing of the birds;

The humming of the bees。



The foolish fears of what might pass

I cast them all away

Among tile clover…scented grass;

Among the new…mown hay;

Among the hushing of the corn;

Where drowsy poppies nod;

Where ill thoughts die and good are born …

Out in the fields of God。



Unknown

'Has been erroneously attributed to Elizabeth

Barrett Browning and Louise Imogen Guiney'





ASPECTS OF THE PINES



Tall; somber; grim; against the morning sky

They rise; scarce touched by melancholy airs;

Which stir the fadeless foliage dreamfully;

As if from realms of mystical despairs。



Tall; somber; grim; they stand with dusky gleams

Brightening to gold within the woodland's core;

Beneath the gracious noontide's tranquil beams; …

But the weird winds of morning sigh no more。



A stillness; strange; divine; ineffable;

Broods round and o'er them in the wind's surcease;

And on each tinted copse and shimmering dell

Rests the mute rapture of deep hearted peace。



Last; sunset comes … the solemn joy and might

Borne from the West when cloudless day declines …

Low; flute…like breezes sweep the waves of light;

And; lifting dark green tresses of the pines;



Till every lock is luminous; gently float;
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