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the home book of verse-3-第20部分
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To making good increase;
And now its soul is turned again
To beauty and to peace。
There in the early springtime
The violets are blue;
And adder…tongues in coats of gold
Are garmented anew。
There bayberry and aster
Are crowded on its floors;
When marching summer halts to praise
The Lord of Out…of…doors。
And there October passes
In gorgeous livery; …
In purple ash; and crimson oak;
And golden tulip tree。
And when the winds of winter
Their bugle blasts begin;
The snowy hosts of heaven arrive
To pitch their tents therein。
Bliss Carman '1861…1929'
TO MEADOWS
Ye have been fresh and green;
Ye have been filled with flowers;
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours。
Ye have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home。
Ye've heard them sweetly sing;
And seen them in a round;
Each virgin; like a Spring;
With honeysuckles crowned。
But now we see none here
Whose silvery feet did tread;
And with dishevelled hair
Adorned this smoother mead。
Like unthrifts; having spent
Your stock; and needy grown;
Ye're left here to lament
Your poor estates; alone。
Robert Herrick '1591…1674'
THE CLOUD
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams。
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one;
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast;
As she dances about the sun。
I wield the flail of the lashing hail;
And whiten the green plains under;
And then again I dissolve it in rain;
And laugh as I pass in thunder。
I sift the snow on the mountains below;
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white;
While I sleep in the arms of the blast。
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder;
It struggles and howls at fits。
Over earth and ocean; with gentle motion;
This pilot is guiding me;
Lured by the love of the Genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills; and the crags; and the hills;
Over the lakes and the plains;
Wherever he dream; under mountain or stream;
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile;
Whilst he is dissolving in rains。
The sanguine Sunrise; with his meteor eyes;
And his burning plumes outspread;
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack;
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain…crag;
Which an earthquake rocks and swings;
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings。
And; when Sunset may breathe; from the lit sea beneath;
Its ardors of rest and of love;
And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of heaven above;
With wings folded I rest on mine airy nest;
As still as a brooding dove。
That orbed maiden with white fire laden;
Whom mortals call the Moon;
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece…like floor;
By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet;
Which only the angels hear;
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof;
The Stars peep behind her and peer。
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee
Like a swarm of golden bees;
When I widen the rent in my wind…built tent;
Till the calm rivers; lakes; and seas;
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high;
Are each paved with the moon and these。
I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone;
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl;
The volcanoes are dim; and the Stars reel and swim;
When the Whirlwinds my banner unfurl。
From cape to cape; with a bridge…like shape;
Over a torrent sea;
Sunbeam…proof; I hang like a roof;
The mountains its columns be。
The triumphal arch through which I march;
With hurricane; fire; and snow;
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair;
Is the million…colored bow;
The Sphere…fire above its soft colors wove;
While the moist Earth was laughing below。
I am the daughter of Earth and Water;
And the nursling of the Sky:
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change; but I cannot die。
For after the rain; when with never a stain
The pavilion of heaven is bare;
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air;
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph;
And out of the caverns of rain;
Like a child from the womb; like a ghost from the tomb
I arise; and unbuild it again。
Percy Bysshe Shelley '1792…1822'
APRIL RAIN
It is not raining rain for me;
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on the hills。
The clouds of gray engulf the day
And overwhelm the town;
It is not raining rain to me;
It's raining roses down。
It is not raining rain to me;
But fields of clover bloom;
Where any buccaneering bee
Can find a bed and room。
A health unto the happy;
A fig for him who frets!
It is not raining rain to me;
It's raining violets。
Robert Loveman '1864…1923'
SUMMER INVOCATION
O gentle; gentle summer rain;
Let not the silver lily pine;
The drooping lily pine in vain
To feel that dewy touch of thine; …
To drink thy freshness once again;
O gentle; gentle summer rain!
In heat the landscape quivering lies;
The cattle pant beneath the tree;
Through parching air and purple skies
The earth looks up; in vain; for thee;
For thee … for thee; it looks in vain
O gentle; gentle summer rain。
Come thou; and brim the meadow streams;
And soften all the hills with mist;
O falling dew! from burning dreams
By thee shall herb and flower be kissed;
And Earth shall bless thee yet again;
O gentle; gentle summer rain。
William Cox Bennett '1820…1895'
APRIL RAIN
The April rain; the April rain;
Comes slanting down in fitful showers;
Then from the furrow shoots the grain;
And banks are edged with nestling flowers;
And in gray shaw and woodland bowers
The cuckoo through the April rain
Calls once again。
The April sun; the April sun;
Glints through the rain in fitful splendor;
And in gray shaw and woodland dun
The little leaves spring forth and tender
Their infant hands; yet weak and slender;
For warmth towards the April sun;
One after one。
And between shower and shine hath birth
The rainbow's evanescent glory;
Heaven's light that breaks on mist of earth!
Frail symbol of our human story;
It flowers through showers where; looming hoary;
The rain…clouds flash with April mirth;
Like Life on earth。
Mathilde Blind '1841…1896'
TO THE RAINBOW
Triumphal arch; that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part;
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what thou art; …
Still seem; as to my childhood's sight;
A midway station given
For happy spirits to alight
Betwixt the earth and heaven。
Can all that Optics teach unfold
Thy form to please me so;
As when I dreamt of gems and gold
Hid in thy radiant bow?
When Science from Creation's face
Enchantment's veil withdraws;
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws!
And yet; fair bow; no fabling dreams;
But words of the Most High;
Have told why first thy robe of beams
Was woven in the sky。
When o'er the green; undeluged earth
Heaven's covenant thou didst shine;
How came the world's gray fathers forth
To watch thy sacred sign!
And when its yellow luster smiled
O'er mountains yet untrod;
Each mother held aloft her child
To bless the bow of God。
Methinks; thy jubilee to keep;
The first…made anthem rang
On earth; delivered from the deep;
And the first poet sang。
Nor ever shall the Muse's eye
Unraptured greet thy beam;
Theme of primeval prophecy;
Be still the prophet's theme!
The earth to thee her incense yields;
The lark thy welcome sings;
When; glittering in the freshened fields;
The snowy mushroom springs。
How glorious is thy girdle; cast
O'er mountain; tower; and town;
Or mirrored in the ocean vast;
A thousand fathoms down!
As fresh in yon horizon dark;
As young thy beauties seem;
As when the eagle from the ark
First sported in thy beam:
For; faithful to its sacred page;
Heaven still rebuilds thy span;
Nor lets the type grow pale with age;
That first spoke peace to man。
Thomas Campbell '1777…1844'
GREEN THINGS GROWING
MY GARDEN
A garden is a lovesome thing; God wot!
Rose plot;
Fringed pool;
Ferned grot …
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not …
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay; but I have a sign:
'Tis very sure God walks in mine。
Thomas Edward Brown '1830…1897'
THE GARDEN
How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm; the oak; or bays;
And their incessant labors see
Crowned from some single herb or tree;
Whose short and narrow…verged shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose!
Fair Quiet; have I found thee here;
And Innocence; thy sister dear?
Mistaken long; I sought you then
In busy companies of men:
Your sacred plants; if here below;
Only among the plants will grow;
Society is all but rude
To this delicious solitude。
No white nor red was ever seen
So amorous as this lovely green。
Fond lovers; cruel as their flame;
Cut in these trees their mistress' name:
Little; alas! they know or heed
How far these beauties hers exceed!
Fair trees! where'er your barks I wound;
No name shall but your own he found。
When we have run our passions' heat;
Love hither makes his best retreat:
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