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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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