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the home book of verse-3-第21部分
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No name shall but your own he found。
When we have run our passions' heat;
Love hither makes his best retreat:
The gods; that mortal beauty chase;
Still in a tree did end their race;
Apollo hunted Daphne so
Only that she might laurel grow;
And Pan did after Syrinx speed;
Not as a nymph; but for a reed。
What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons; as I pass;
Ensnared with flowers; I fall on grass。
Meanwhile the mind; from pleasure less;
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind; that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates; transcending these;
Far other worlds; and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade。
Here at the fountain's sliding foot;
Or at some fruit…tree's mossy root;
Casting the body's vest aside;
My soul into the boughs does glide;
There; like a bird; it sits and sings;
Then whets and combs its silver wings;
And; till prepared for longer flight;
Waves in its plumes the various light。
Such was that happy Garden…state
While man there walked without a mate:
After a place so pure and sweet;
What other help could yet be meet!
But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there:
Two paradises 'twere in one;
To live in Paradise alone。
How well the skilful gardener drew
Of flowers and herbs this dial new!
Where; from above; the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run:
And; as it works; the industrious bee
Computes its time as well as we。
How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckoned; but with herbs and flowers
Andrew Marvell '1621…1678'
A GARDEN
Written After The Civil Wars
See how the flowers; as at parade;
Under their colors stand displayed:
Each regiment in order grows;
That of the tulip; pink; and rose。
But when the vigilant patrol
Of stars walks round about the pole;
Their leaves; that to the stalks are curled;
Seem to their staves the ensigns furled。
Then in some flower's beloved hut
Each bee; as sentinel; is shut;
And sleeps so too; but if once stirred;
She runs you through; nor asks the word。
O thou; that dear and happy Isle;
The garden of the world erewhile;
Thou Paradise of the four seas
Which Heaven planted us to please;
But; to exclude the world; did guard
With watery if not flaming sword;
What luckless apple did we taste
To make us mortal and thee waste!
Unhappy! shall we never more
That sweet militia restore;
When gardens only had their towers;
And all the garrisons were flowers;
When roses only arms might bear;
And men did rosy garlands wear?
Andrew Marvell '1621…1678'
A GARDEN SONG
Here; in this sequestered close
Bloom the hyacinth and rose;
Here beside the modest stock
Flaunts the flaring hollyhock;
Here; without a pang; one sees
Ranks; conditions; and; degrees。
All the seasons run their race
In this quiet resting…place;
Peach; and apricot; and fig
Here will ripen; and grow big;
Here is store and overplus; …
More had not Alcinous!
Here; in alleys cool and green;
Far ahead the thrush is seen;
Here along the southern wall
Keeps the bee his festival;
All is quiet else … afar
Sounds of toil and turmoil are。
Here be shadows large and long;
Here be spaces meet for song;
Grant; O garden…god; that I;
Now that none profane is nigh; …
Now that mood and moment please;
Find the fair Pierides!
Austin Dobson '1840…1921'
〃IN GREEN OLD GARDENS〃
In green old gardens; hidden away
From sight of revel and sound of strife;
Where the bird may sing out his soul ere he die;
Nor fears for the night; so he lives his day;
Where the high red walls; which are growing gray
With their lichen and moss embroideries;
Seem sadly and sternly to shut out life;
Because it is often as red as they;
Where even the bee has time to glide
(Gathering gayly his honey's store)
Right to the heart of the old…world flowers …
China…asters and purple stocks;
Dahlias and tall red hollyhocks;
Laburnums raining their golden showers;
Columbines prim of the folded core;
And lupins; and larkspurs; and 〃London pride〃;
Where the heron is waiting amongst the reeds;
Grown tame in the silence that reigns around;
Broken only; now and then;
By shy woodpecker or noisy jay;
By the far…off watch…dog's muffled bay;
But where never the purposeless laughter of men;
Or the seething city's murmurous sound
Will float up over the river…weeds。
Here may I live what life I please;
Married and buried out of sight; …
Married to pleasure; and buried to pain; …
Hidden away amongst scenes like these;
Under the fans of the chestnut trees;
Living my child…life over again;
With the further hope of a fallen delight;
Blithe as the birds and wise as the bees。
In green old gardens; hidden away
From sight of revel and sound of strife; …
Here have I leisure to breathe and move;
And to do my work in a nobler way;
To sing my songs; and to say my say;
To dream my dreams; and to love my love;
To hold my faith; and to live my life;
Making the most of its shadowy day。
Violet Fane '1843…1905'
A BENEDICTINE GARDEN
Through all the wind…blown aisles of May;
Faint bells of perfume swing and fall。
Within this apple…petalled wall
(A gray east; flecked with rosy day)
The pink laburnum lays her cheek
In married; matchless; lovely bliss;
Against her golden mate; to seek
His airy kiss。
Tulips; in faded splendor drest;
Brood o'er their beds; a slumbrous gloom。
Dame Peony; red and ripe with bloom;
Swells the silk housing of her breast。
The Lilac; drunk to ecstasy;
Breaks her full flagons on the air;
And drenches home the reeling bee
Who found her fair。
O cowled Legion of the Cross;
What solemn pleasantry is thine;
Vowing to seek the life divine
Through abnegation and through loss!
Men but make monuments of sin
Who walk the earth's ambitious round;
Thou hast the richer realm within
This garden ground。
No woman's voice takes sweeter note
Than chanting of this plumed choir。
No jewel ever wore the fire
Hung on a dewdrop's quivering throat。
A ruddier pomp and pageantry
Than world's delight o'erfleets thy sod;
And choosing this; thou hast in fee
The peace of God。
Alice Brown '1857…
AN AUTUMN GARDEN
My tent stands in a garden
Of aster and golden…rod;
Tilled by the rain and the sunshine;
And sown by the hand of God; …
An old New England pasture
Abandoned to peace and time;
And by the magic of beauty
Reclaimed to the sublime。
About it are golden woodlands
Of tulip and hickory;
On the open ridge behind it
You may mount to a glimpse of sea; …
The far…off; blue; Homeric
Rim of the world's great shield;
A border of boundless glamor
For the soul's familiar field。
In purple and gray…wrought lichen
The boulders lie in the sun;
Along its grassy footpath;
The white…tailed rabbits run。
The crickets work and chirrup
Through the still afternoon;
And the owl calls at twilight
Under the frosty moon。
The odorous wild grape clambers
Over the tumbling wall;
And through the autumnal quiet
The chestnuts open and fall。
Sharing time's freshness and fragrance;
Part of the earth's great soul;
Here man's spirit may ripen
To wisdom serene and whole。
Shall we not grow with the asters? …
Never reluctant nor sad;
Not counting the cost of being;
Living to dare and be glad。
Shall we not lift with the crickets
A chorus of ready cheer;
Braving the frost of oblivion;
Quick to be happy here?
The deep red cones of the sumach
And the woodbine's crimson sprays
Have bannered the common roadside
For the pageant of passing days。
These are the oracles Nature
Fills with her holy breath;
Giving them glory of color;
Transcending the shadow of death。
Here in the sifted sunlight
A spirit seems to brood
On the beauty and worth of being;
In tranquil; instinctive mood;
And the heart; athrob with gladness
Such as the wise earth knows;
Wells with a full thanksgiving
For the gifts that life bestows:
For the ancient and virile nurture
Of the teeming primordial ground;
For the splendid gospel of color;
The rapt revelations of sound;
For the morning…blue above us
And the rusted gold of the fern;
For the chickadee's call to valor
Bidding the faint…heart turn;
For fire and running water;
Snowfall and summer rain;
For sunsets and quiet meadows;
The fruit and the standing grain;
For the solemn hour of moonrise
Over the crest of trees;
When the mellow lights are kindled
In the lamps of the centuries。
For those who wrought aforetime;
Led by the mystic strain
To strive for the larger freedom;
And live for the greater gain;
For plenty and peace and playtime;
The homely goods of earth;
And for rare immaterial treasures
Accounted of little worth;
For art and learning and friendship;
Where beneficent truth is supreme;
Those everlasting cities
Built on the hills of dream;
For all things growing and goodly
That foster this life; and breed
The immortal flower of wisdom
Out of the mortal seed。
But most of all for the spirit
That can not rest nor bide
In stale and sterile convenience;
Nor safety proven and tried;
But still inspired and driven;
Must seek what better may be;
And up from the loveliest garden
Must climb for a glimpse of sea。
Bliss Carman '1861…1929'
UNGUARDED
The Mistress of the Roses
Is haply far away;
And through her garden closes
What strange intruders stray。
See on its rustic spindl
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