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the home book of verse-3-第24部分
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They will have a place in story:
There's a flower that shall be mine;
'Tis the little Celandine。
Eyes of some men travel far
For the finding of a star;
Up and down the heavens they go;
Men that keep a mighty rout!
I'm as great as them; I trow;
Since the day I found thee out。
Little Flower! … I'll make a stir;
Like a sage astronomer。
Modest; yet withal an Elf
Bold; and lavish of thyself;
Since we needs must first have met;
I have seen thee; high and low;
Thirty years or more; and yet
'Twas a face I did not know;
Thou hast now; go where I may;
Fifty greetings in a day。
Ere a leaf is on a bush;
In the time before the thrush
Has a thought about her nest;
Thou wilt come with half a call;
Spreading out thy glossy breast
Like a careless Prodigal;
Telling tales about the sun;
When we've little warmth; or none。
Poets; vain men in their mood!
Travel with the multitude:
Never heed them; I aver
That they all are wanton wooers;
But the thrifty cottager;
Who stirs little out of doors;
Joys to spy thee near her home;
Spring is coming; Thou art come!
Comfort have thou of thy merit;
Kindly; unassuming Spirit!
Careless of thy neighborhood;
Thou dost show thy pleasant face
On the moor; and in the wood;
In the lane; … there's not a place;
Howsoever mean it be;
But 'tis good enough for thee。
Ill befall the yellow flowers;
Children of the flaring hours!
Buttercups; that will be seen;
Whether we will see or no;
Others; too; of lofty mien;
They have done as worldings do;
Taken praise that should be thine;
Little; humble Celandine!
Prophet of delight and mirth;
Ill…requited upon earth;
Herald of a mighty band;
Of a joyous train ensuing;
Serving at my heart's command;
Tasks that are no tasks renewing;
I will sing; as dost behove;
Hymns in praise of what I love!
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
FOUR…LEAF CLOVER
I know a place where the sun is like gold;
And the cherry blossoms burst with snow;
And down underneath is the loveliest nook;
Where the four…leaf clovers grow。
One leaf is for hope; and one is for faith;
And one is for love; you know;
And God put another in for luck; …
If you search; you will find where they grow。
But you must have hope; and you must have faith;
You must love and be strong … and so;
If you work; if you wait; you will find the place
Where the four…leaf clovers grow。
Ella Higginson '1862…
SWEET CLOVER
Within what weeks the melilot
Gave forth its fragrance; I; a lad;
Or never knew or quite forgot;
Save that 'twas while the year is glad。
Now know I that in bright July
It blossoms; and the perfume fine
Brings back my boyhood; until I
Am steeped in memory as with wine。
Now know I that the whole year long;
Though Winter chills or Summer cheers;
It writes along the weeks its song;
Even as my youth sings through my years。
Wallace Rice '1859…
〃I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD〃
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills;
When all at once I saw a crowd;
A host; of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake; beneath the trees;
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze。
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the milky way;
They stretched in never…ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance;
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance。
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out…did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay;
In such a jocund company:
I gazed … and gazed … but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft; when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood;
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills;
And dances with the daffodils。
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
TO DAFFODILS
Fair Daffodils; we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early…rising sun
Has not attained his noon。
Stay; stay;
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even…song;
And; having prayed together; we
Will go with you along。
We have short time to stay as you;
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay;
As you; or any thing。
We die
As your hours do; and dry
Away;
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew;
Ne'er to be found again。
Robert Herrick '1591…1674'
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY
On Turing One Down With The Plough; In April 1786
Wee; modest; crimson…tipped flower;
Thou's met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my power;
Thou bonny gem。
Alas! it's no thy neibor sweet;
The bonny lark; companion meet;
Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet;
Wi' speckled breast;
When upward…springing; blithe; to greet
The purpling east!
Cauld blew the bitter…biting north
Upon thy early; humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
Amid the storm;
Scarce reared above the parent earth
Thy tender form。
The flaunting flowers our gardens yield
High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield;
But thou; beneath the random bield
O' clod; or stane;
Adorns the histie stibble…fleld;
Unseen; alane。
There; in thy scanty mantle clad;
Thy snawie bosom sunward spread;
Thou lifts thy unassuming head
In humble guise;
But now the share uptears thy bed;
And low thou lies!
Such is the fate of artless maid;
Sweet floweret of the rural shade!
By love's simplicity betrayed;
And guileless trust;
Till she; like thee; all soiled; is laid
Low i' the dust。
Such is the fate of simple bard;
On life's rough ocean luckless starred!
Unskillful he to note the card
Of prudent lore;
Till billows rage; and gales blow hard;
And whelm him o'er!
Such fate to suffering worth is given;
Who long with wants and woes has striven;
By human pride or cunning driven
To misery's brink;
Till; wrenched of every stay but Heaven;
He; ruined; sink!
Even thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate;
That fate is thine … no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives; elate;
Full on thy bloom;
Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight
Shall be thy doom。
Robert Burns '1759…1796'
A FIELD FLOWER
There is a flower; a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye;
That welcomes every changing hour;
And weathers every sky。
The prouder beauties of the field
In gay but quick succession shine;
Race after race their honors yield;
They flourish and decline。
But this small flower; to Nature dear;
While moons and stars their courses run;
Wreathes the whole circle of the year;
Companion of the Sun。
It smiles upon the lap of May;
To sultry August spreads its charms;
Lights pale October on his way;
And twines December's arms。
The purple heath and golden broom
On moory mountains catch the gale;
O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume;
The violet in the vale。
But this bold floweret climbs the hill;
Hides in the forest; haunts the glen;
Plays on the margin of the rill;
Peeps round the fox's den。
Within the garden's cultured round
It shares the sweet carnation's bed;
And blooms on consecrated ground
In honor of the dead。
The lambkin crops its crimson gem;
The wild bee murmurs on its breast;
The blue…fly bends its pensile stem
Light o'er the skylark's nest。
'Tis Flora's page; … in every place;
In every season; fresh and fair;
It opens with perennial grace;
And blossoms everywhere。
On waste and woodland; rock and plain;
Its humble buds unheeded rise;
The Rose has but a summer reign;
The Daisy never dies!
James Montgomery '1771…1854'
TO DAISIES; NOT TO SHUT SO SOON
Shut not so soon; the dull…eyed night
Has not as yet begun
To make a seizure on the light;
Or to seal up the sun。
No marigolds yet closed are;
No shadows great appear;
Nor doth the early shepherd's star
Shine like a spangle here。
Stay but till my Julia close
Her life…begetting eye;
And let the whole world then dispose
Itself to live or die。
Robert Herrick '1591…1674'
DAISIES
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune
I saw the white daisies go down to the sea;
A host in the sunshine; an army in June;
The people God sends us to set our heart free。
The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell;
The orioles whistled them out of the wood;
And all of their saying was; 〃Earth; it is well!〃
And all of their dancing was; 〃Life; thou art good!〃
Bliss Carman '1861…1929'
TO THE DAISY
With little here to do or see
Of things that in the great world be;
Daisy! again I talk to thee;
For thou art worthy:
Thou unassuming common…place
Of Nature; with that homely face;
And yet with something of a grace;
Which love makes for thee!
Oft on the dappled turf at ease;
I sit; and play with similes;
Loose types of things through all degrees;
Thoughts of thy raising:
And many a fond and idle name
I give to thee; for praise or blame;
As is the humor of the game;
While I am gazing。
A nun demure; of lowly port;
Or sprightly maiden of love's court;
In thy simplicity the sport
Of all temptations;
A queen in crown of rubies dressed
A starveling in a scanty vest;
Are all; as seem to suit thee best;
Thy appellations。
A little Cyclops; with one eye
Staring to threaten and defy …
That thought comes next … and instantly
The freak is over。
The shape will vanish; … and behold!
A silver shield with boss of gold;
That spreads itself; some fairy bold
In fight to cover。
I see thee glittering from afar; …
And then thou art a pretty star;
Not quite so fair as many are
In heaven above thee!
Yet
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