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the home book of verse-3-第2部分
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All the schools have taught me; yet
I recall each trivial thing
In a golden far off Spring; …
Give me whispered hints how I
May instruct my heart to fly
Where the baffling Vision gleams
Till I overtake my dreams;
And the impossible be done
When the Wish and Deed grow one!
Frederic Lawrence Knowles '1869…1905'
QUIET WORK
One lesson; Nature; let me learn of thee;
One lesson which in every wind is blown;
One lesson of two duties kept at one
Though the loud world proclaim their enmity …
Of toil unsevered from tranquillity;
Of labor; that in lasting fruit outgrows
Far noisier schemes; accomplished in repose;
Too great for haste; too high for rivalry。
Yes; while on earth a thousand discords ring;
Man's fitful uproar mingling with his toil;
Still do thy sleepless ministers move on;
Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting;
Still working; blaming still our vain turmoil;
Laborers that shall not fail; when man is gone。
Matthew Arnold '1822…1888'
NATURE
As a fond mother; when the day is o'er;
Leads by the hand her little child to bed;
Half willing; half reluctant to be led;
And leave his broken playthings on the floor;
Still gazing at them through the open door;
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
By promises of others in their stead;
Which; though more splendid; may not please him more;
So Nature deals with us; and takes away
Our playthings one by one; and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently; that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay;
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know。
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '1807…1882'
〃AS AN OLD MERCER〃
As an old mercer in some sleepy town
Swings wide his windows new day after day;
Sets all his wares around in arch array
To please the taste of passers up and down; …
His hoard of handy things of trite renown;
Of sweets and spices and of faint perfumes;
Of silks and prints; … and at the last illumes
His tiny panes to foil the evening's frown;
So Nature spreads her proffered treasures: such
As daily dazzle at the morning's rise; …
Fair show of isle and ocean merchandise;
And airy offerings filmy to the touch;
Then; lest we like not these; in Dark's bazaars
She nightly tempts us with her store of stars。
Mahlon Leonard Fisher '1874…
GOOD COMPANY
To…day I have grown taller from walking with the trees;
The seven sister…poplars who go softly in a line;
And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a star
That trembled out at nightfall and hung above the pine。
The call…note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk
Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;
And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke …
Lord; who am I that they should stoop … these holy folk of thine?
Karle Wilson Baker '1878…
〃HERE IS THE PLACE WHERE LOVELINESS KEEPS HOUSE〃
Here is the place where Loveliness keeps house;
Between the river and the wooded hills;
Within a valley where the Springtime spills
Her firstling wind…flowers under blossoming boughs:
Where Summer sits braiding her warm; white brows
With bramble…roses; and where Autumn fills
Her lap with asters; and old Winter frills
With crimson haw and hip his snowy blouse。
Here you may meet with Beauty。 Here she sits
Gazing upon the moon; or all the day
Tuning a wood…thrush flute; remote; unseen;
Or when the storm is out; 'tis she who flits
From rock to rock; a form of flying spray;
Shouting; beneath the leaves' tumultuous green。
Madison Cawein '1865…1914'
GOD'S WORLD
O world; I cannot hold thee close enough!
Thy winds; thy wide gray skies!
Thy mists; that roll and rise!
Thy woods; this autumn day; that ache and sag
And all but cry with color! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World; world; I cannot get thee close enough!
Long have I known a glory in it all
But never knew I this。
Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart。 Lord; I do fear
Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year。
My soul is all but out of me … let fall
No burning leaf; prithee; let no bird call。
Edna St。 Vincent Millay '1892…
WILD HONEY
Where hints of racy sap and gum
Out of the old dark forest come;
Where birds their beaks like hammers wield;
And pith is pierced and bark is peeled;
Where the green walnut's outer rind
Gives precious bitterness to the wind;
There lurks the sweet creative power;
As lurks the honey in the flower。
In winter's bud that bursts in spring;
In nut of autumn's ripening;
In acrid bulb beneath the mold;
Sleeps the elixir; strong and old;
That Rosicrucians sought in vain; …
Life that renews itself again!
What bottled perfume is so good
As fragrance of split tulip…wood?
What fabled drink of god or muse
Was rich as purple mulberry juice?
And what school…polished gem of thought
Is like the rune from Nature caught?
He is a poet strong and true
Who loves wild thyme and honey…dew;
And like a brown bee works and sings
With morning freshness on his wings;
And a golden burden on his thighs; …
The pollen…dust of centuries!
Maurice Thompson '1844…1901'
PATMOS
All around him Patmos lies;
Who hath spirit…gifted eyes;
Who his happy sight can suit
To the great and the minute。
Doubt not but he holds in view
A new earth and heaven new;
Doubt not but his ear doth catch
Strain nor voice nor reed can match:
Many a silver; sphery note
Shall within his hearing float。
All around him Patmos lies;
Who unto God's priestess flies:
Thou; O Nature; bid him see;
Through all guises worn by thee;
A divine apocalypse。
Manifold his fellowships:
Now the rocks their archives ope;
Voiceless creatures tell their hope
In a language symbol…wrought;
Groves to him sigh out their thought;
Musings of the flower and grass
Through his quiet spirit pass。
'Twixt new earth and heaven new
He hath traced and holds the clue;
Number his delights ye may not;
Fleets the year but these decay not。
Now the freshets of the rain;
Bounding on from hill to plain;
Show him earthly streams have rise
In the bosom of the skies。
Now he feels the morning thrill;
As upmounts; unseen and still;
Dew the wing of evening drops。
Now the frost; that meets and stops
Summer's feet in tender sward;
Greets him; breathing heavenward。
Hieroglyphics writes the snow;
Through the silence falling slow;
Types of star and petaled bloom
A white missal…page illume。
By these floating symbols fine;
Heaven…truth shall be divine。
All around him Patmos lies;
Who hath spirit…gifted eyes;
He need not afar remove;
He need not the times reprove;
Who would hold perpetual lease
Of an isle in seas of peace。
Edith M。 Thomas '1854…1925'
DAWN AND DARK
SONG
Phoebus; arise;
And paint the sable skies
With azure; white; and red:
Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed;
That she thy career may with roses spread:
The nightingales thy coming each where sing;
Make an eternal Spring!
Give life to this dark world which lieth dead;
Spread forth thy golden hair
In larger locks than thou wast wont before;
And; emperor…like; decore
With diadem of pearl thy temples fair:
Chase hence the ugly night;
Which serves but to make dear thy glorious light。
This is that happy morn;
That day; long…wished day;
Of all my life so dark;
(If cruel stars have not my ruin sworn;
And fates not hope betray;)
Which; only white; deserves
A diamond for ever should it mark。
This is the morn should bring unto this grove
My Love; to hear and recompense my love。
Fair king; who all preserves;
But show thy blushing beams;
And thou two sweeter eyes
Shalt see; than those which by Peneus' streams
Did once thy heart surprise。
Nay; suns; which shine as clear
As thou; when two thou didst to Rome appear。
Now; Flora; deck thyself in fairest guise:
If that ye; winds; would hear
A voice surpassing far Amphion's lyre;
Your stormy chiding stay;
Let Zephyr only breathe;
And with her tresses play;
Kissing sometimes these purple ports of death。
… The winds all silent are;
And Phoebus in his chair
Ensaffroning sea and air;
Makes vanish every star:
Night like a drunkard reels
Beyond the hills; to shun his flaming wheels;
The fields with flowers are decked in every hue;
The clouds bespangle with bright gold their blue:
Here is the pleasant place;
And everything save her; who all should grace。
William Drummond '1585…1649'
HYMN OF APOLLO
The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie;
Curtained with star…inwoven tapestries;
From the broad moonlight of the sky;
Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes; …
Waken me when their Mother; the gray Dawn;
Tells them that dreams and that the moon is gone。
Then I arise; and climbing Heaven's blue dome;
I walk over the mountains and the waves;
Leaving my robe upon the ocean foam;
My footsteps pave the clouds with fire; the caves
Are filled with my bright presence; and the air
Leaves the green Earth to my embraces bare。
The sunbeams are my shafts; with which I kill
Deceit; that loves the night and fears the day;
All men who do or even imagine ill
Fly me; and from the glory of my ray
Good minds and open actions take new might;
Until diminished by the reign of Night。
I feed the clouds; the rainbows; and the flowers;
With their ethereal colors; the Moon's globe;
And the pure stars in their eternal bowers;
Are cinctured with my power as with a robe;
Whatever lamps on Earth or Heaven may shine;
Are portions of one power; which is mine。
I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven;
Then with unwilling steps I wander down
Into the clouds of the Atlantic
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