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the home book of verse-3-第23部分
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Wanders to and fro;
So tottered she;
Dishevelled in the wind。
Then came the daisies;
On the first of May;
Like a bannered show's advance
While the crowd runs by the way;
With ten thousand flowers about them they came trooping
through the fields。
As a happy people come;
So came they;
As a happy people come
When the war has rolled away;
With dance and tabor; pipe and drum;
And all make holiday。
Then came the cowslip;
Like a dancer in the fair;
She spread her little mat of green;
And on it danced she。
With a fillet bound about her brow;
A fillet round her happy brow;
A golden fillet round her brow;
And rubies in her hair。
Sydney Dobell '1824…1874'
FLOWERS
Spare full well; in language quaint and olden
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine;
When he called the flowers; so blue and golden;
Stars; that in earth's firmament do shine。
Stars they are; wherein we read our history;
As astrologers and seers of eld;
Yet not wrapped about with awful mystery;
Like the burning stars; which they beheld。
Wondrous truths; and manifold as wondrous;
God hath written in those stars above;
But not less in the bright flowerets under us
Stands the revelation of his love。
Bright and glorious is that revelation;
Writ all over this great world of ours;
Making evident our own creation;
In these stars of earth; these golden flowers。
And the Poet; faithful and far…seeing;
See; alike in stars and flowers; a part
Of the self…same; universal being;
Which is throbbing in his brain and heart。
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining;
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day;
Tremulous leaves; with soft and silver lining;
Buds that open only to decay;
Brilliant hopes; all woven in gorgeous tissues;
Flaunting gayly in the golden light;
Large desires; with most uncertain issues;
Tender wishes; blossoming at night!
These in flowers and men are more than seeming;
Workings are they of the self…same powers
Which the Poet; in no idle dreaming;
Seeth in himself and in the flowers。
Everywhere about us are they glowing;
Some like stars; to tell us Spring is born;
Others; their blue eyes with tears o'erflowing;
Stand like Ruth amid the golden corn;
Not alone in Spring's armorial bearing;
And in Summer's green…emblazoned field;
But in arms of brave old Autumn's wearing;
In the centre of his brazen shield;
Not alone in meadows and green alleys;
On the mountain…top; and by the brink
Of sequestered pools in woodland valleys;
Where the slaves of nature stoop to drink;
Not alone in her vast dome of glory;
Not on graves of bird and beast alone;
But in old cathedrals; high and hoary;
On the tombs of heroes; carved in stone;
In the cottage of the rudest peasant;
In ancestral homes; whose crumbling towers;
Speaking of the Past unto the Present;
Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers;
In all places; then; and in all seasons;
Flowers expand their light and soul…like wings;
Teaching us; by most persuasive reasons;
How akin they are to human things。
And with childlike; credulous affection;
We behold their tender buds expand;
Emblems of our own great resurrection;
Emblems of the bright and better land。
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '1807…1882'
FLOWERS
I will not have the mad Clytie;
Whose head is turned by the sun;
The tulip is a courtly quean;
Whom; therefore; I will shun:
The cowslip is a country wench;
The violet is a nun; …
But I will woo the dainty rose;
The queen of every one。
The pea is but a wanton witch;
In too much haste to wed;
And clasps her rings on every hand;
The wolfsbane I should dread;
Nor will I dreary rosemarye;
That always mourns the dead;
But I will woo the dainty rose;
With her cheeks of tender red。
The lily is all in white; like a saint;
And so is no mate for me;
And the daisy's cheek is tipped with a blush;
She is of such low degree;
Jasmine is sweet; and has many loves;
And the broom's betrothed to the bee; …
But I will plight with the dainty rose;
For fairest of all is she。
Thomas Hood '1799…1845'
A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS
Brave flowers … that I could gallant it like you;
And be as little vain!
You come abroad; and make a harmless show;
And to your beds of earth again。
You are not proud: you know your birth:
For your embroidered garments are from earth。
You do obey your months and times; but I
Would have it ever Spring:
My fate would know no Winter; never die;
Nor think of such a thing。
O that I could my bed of earth but view
And smile; and look as cheerfully as you!
O teach me to see Death and not to fear;
But rather to take truce!
How often have I seen you at a bier;
And there look fresh and spruce!
You fragrant flowers! then teach me; that my breath
Like yours may sweeten and perfume my death。
(?) Henry King '1592…1669'
ALMOND BLOSSOM
Blossom of the almond trees;
April's gift to April's bees;
Birthday ornament of Spring;
Flora's fairest daughterling;
Coming when no flowerets dare
Trust the cruel outer air;
When the royal kingcup bold
Dares not don his coat of gold;
And the sturdy black…thorn spray
Keeps his silver for the May; …
Coming when no flowerets would;
Save thy lowly sisterhood;
Early violets; blue and white;
Dying for their love of light; …
Almond blossom; sent to teach us
That the spring days soon will reach us;
Lest; with longing over…tried;
We die; as the violets died; …
Blossom; clouding all the tree
With thy crimson broidery;
Long before a leaf of green
On the bravest bough is seen; …
Ah! when winter winds are swinging
All thy red bells into ringing;
With a bee in every bell;
Almond bloom; we greet thee well。
Edwin Arnold '1832…1904'
WHITE AZALEAS
Azaleas … whitest of white!
White as the drifted snow
Fresh…fallen out of the night;
Before the coming glow。
Tinges the morning light;
When the light is like the snow;
White;
And the silence is like the light:
Light; and silence; and snow; …
All … white!
White! not a hint
Of the creamy tint
A rose will hold;
The whitest rose; in its inmost fold;
Not a possible blush;
White as an embodied hush;
A very rapture of white;
A wedlock Of silence and light:
White; white as the wonder undefiled
Of Eve just wakened in Paradise;
Nay; white as the angel of a child
That looks into God's own eyes!
Harriet McEwen Kimball '1834…1917'
BUTTERCUPS
There must be fairy miners
Just underneath the mould;
Such wondrous quaint designers
Who live in caves of gold。
They take the shining metals;
And beat them into shreds;
And mould them into petals
To make the flowers' heads。
Sometimes they melt the flowers
To tiny seeds like pearls;
And store them up in bowers
For little boys and girls。
And still a tiny fan turns
Above a forge of gold;
To keep; with fairy lanterns;
The world from growing old。
Wilfrid Thorley '1878…
THE BROOM FLOWER
Oh the Broom; the yellow Broom;
The ancient poet sung it;
And dear it is on summer days
To lie at rest among it。
I know the realms where people say
The flowers have not their fellow;
I know where they shine out like suns;
The crimson and the yellow。
I know where ladies live enchained
In luxury's silken fetters;
And flowers as bright as glittering gems
Are used for written letters。
But ne'er was flower so fair as this;
In modern days or olden;
It groweth on its nodding stem
Like to a garland golden。
And all about my mother's door
Shine out its glittering bushes;
And down the glen; where clear as light
The mountain…water gushes。
Take all the rest; but give me this;
And the bird that nestles in it;
I love it; for it loves the Broom …
The green and yellow linnet。
Well call the rose the queen of flowers;
And boast of that of Sharon;
Of lilies like to marble cups;
And the golden rod of Aaron:
I care not how these flowers may be
Beloved of man and woman;
The Broom it is the flower for me;
That groweth on the common。
Oh the Broom; the yellow Broom;
The ancient poet sung it;
And dear it is on summer days
To lie at rest among it。
Mary Howitt '1799…1888'
THE SMALL CELANDINE
There is a Flower; the lesser Celandine;
That shrinks; like many more; from cold and rain;
And; the first moment that the sun may shine;
Bright as the sun himself; 'tis out again!
When hailstones have been falling; swarm on swarm;
Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed;
Oft have I seen it muffled up from harm;
In close self…shelter; like a thing at rest。
But lately; one rough day; this Flower I passed
And recognized it; though an altered form;
Now standing forth an offering to the blast;
And buffeted at will by rain and storm。
I stopped; and said with inly…muttered voice;
〃It doth not love the shower; nor seek the cold:
This neither is its courage; nor its choice;
But its necessity in being old。
〃The sunshine may not cheer it; nor the dew;
It cannot help itself in its decay;
Stiff in its members; withered; changed of hue。〃
And; in my spleen; I smiled that it was gray。
To be a Prodigal's Favorite … then; worse truth;
A Miser's Pensioner … behold our lot!
O Man; that from thy fair and shining youth
Age might but take the things Youth needed not!
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
TO THE SMALL CELANDINE
Pansies; lilies; kingcups; daisies;
Let them live upon their praises;
Long as there's a sun that sets;
Primroses will have their glory;
Long as there are violets;
They will have a place in story:
There's a flower that shall be mine;
'Tis the little Celandi
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