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the home book of verse-3-第25部分
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And then thou art a pretty star;
Not quite so fair as many are
In heaven above thee!
Yet like a star; with glittering crest;
Self…poised in air; thou seem'st to rest; …
May peace come never to his nest
Who shall reprove thee!
Bright Flower! for by that name at last;
When all my reveries are past;
I call thee; and to that cleave fast;
Sweet silent creature!
That breath'st with me in sun and air;
Do thou; as thou art wont; repair
My heart with gladness; and a share
Of thy meek nature!
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
TO DAISIES
Ah; drops of gold in whitening flame
Burning; we know your lovely name …
Daisies; that little children pull!
Like all weak things; over the strong
Ye do not know your power for wrong;
And much abuse your feebleness。
Daisies; that little children pull;
As ye are weak; be merciful!
O hide your eyes! they are to me
Beautiful insupportably。
Or be but conscious ye are fair;
And I your loveliness could bear;
But; being fair so without art;
Ye vex the silted memories of my heart!
As a pale ghost yearning strays
With sundered gaze;
'Mid corporal presences that are
To it impalpable … such a bar
Sets you more distant than the morning…star。
Such wonder is on you; and amaze;
I look and marvel if I be
Indeed the phantom; or are ye?
The light is on your innocence
Which fell from me。
The fields ye still inhabit whence
My world…acquainted treading strays;
The country where I did commence;
And though ye shine to me so near;
So close to gross and visible sense; …
Between us lies impassable year on year。
To other time and far…off place
Belongs your beauty: silent thus;
Though to other naught you tell;
To me your ranks are rumorous
Of an ancient miracle。
Vain does my touch your petals graze;
I touch you not; and though ye blossom here;
Your roots are fast in alienated days。
Ye there are anchored; while Time's stream
Has swept me past them: your white ways
And infantile delights do seem
To look in on me like a face;
Dead and sweet; come back through dream;
With tears; because for old embrace
It has no arms。
These hands did toy;
Children; with you; when I was child;
And in each other's eyes we smiled:
Not yours; not yours the grievous…fair
Apparelling
With which you wet mine eyes; you wear;
Ah me; the garment of the grace
I wove you when I was a boy;
O mine; and not the year's your stolen Spring!
And since ye wear it;
Hide your sweet selves! I cannot bear it。
For when ye break the cloven earth
With your young laughter and endearment;
No blossomy carillon 'tis of mirth
To me; I see my slaughtered joy
Bursting its cerement。
Francis Thompson '1859?…1907'
TO THE DANDELION
Dear common flower; that grow'st beside the way;
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold;
First pledge of blithesome May;
Which children pluck; and; full of pride; uphold;
High…hearted buccaneers; o'erjoyed that they
An Eldorado in the grass have found;
Which not the rich earth's ample round
May match in wealth; thou art more dear to me
Than all the prouder summer…blooms may be。
Gold such as thine ne'er drew the Spanish prow
Through the primeval hush of Indian seas;
Nor wrinkled the lean brow
Of age; to rob the lover's heart of ease;
'Tis the Spring's largess; which she scatters now
To rich and poor alike; with lavish hand;
Though most hearts never understand
To take it at God's value; but pass by
The offered wealth with unrewarded eye。
Thou art my tropics and mine Italy;
To look at thee unlocks a warmer clime;
The eyes thou givest me
Are in the heart; and heed not space or time:
Not in mid June the golden…cuirassed bee
Feels a more summer…like warm ravishment
In the white lily's breezy tent;
His fragrant Sybaris; than I; when first
From the dark green thy yellow circles burst。
Then think I of deep shadows on the grass;
Of meadows where in sun the cattle graze;
Where; as the breezes pass;
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways;
Of leaves that slumber in a cloudy mass;
Or whiten in the wind; of waters blue
That from the distance sparkle through
Some woodland gap; and of a sky above;
Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move。
My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee;
The sight of thee calls back the robin's song;
Who; from the dark old tree
Beside the door; sang clearly all day long;
And I; secure in childish piety;
Listened as if I heard an angel sing
With news from heaven; which he could bring
Fresh every day to my untainted ears
When birds and flowers and I were happy peers。
How like a prodigal doth nature seem;
When thou; for all thy gold; so common art!
Thou teachest me to deem
More sacredly of every human heart;
Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam
Of heaven; and could some wondrous secret show;
Did we but pay the love we owe;
And with a child's undoubting wisdom look
On all these living pages of God's book。
James Russell Lowell '1819…1891'
DANDELION
At dawn; when England's childish tongue
Lisped happy truths; and men were young;
Her Chaucer; with a gay content
Hummed through the shining fields; scarce bent
By poet's foot; and; plucking; set;
All lusty; sunny; dewy…wet;
A dandelion in his verse;
Like the first gold in childhood's purse。
At noon; when harvest colors die
On the pale azure of the sky;
And dreams through dozing grasses creep
Of winds that are themselves asleep;
Rapt Shelley found the airy ghost
Of that bright flower the spring loves most;
And ere one silvery ray was blown
From its full disk made it his own。
Now from the stubble poets glean
Scant flowers of thought; the Muse would wean
Her myriad nurslings; feeding them
On petals plucked from a dry stem。
For one small plumule still adrift;
The wind…blown dandelion's gift;
The fields once blossomy we scour
Where the old poets plucked the flower。
Annie Rankin Annan '1848…1925'
THE DANDELIONS
Upon a showery night and still;
Without a sound of warning;
A trooper band surprised the hill;
And held it in the morning。
We were not waked by bugle…notes;
No cheer our dreams invaded;
And yet; at dawn; their yellow coats
On the green slopes paraded。
We careless folk the deed forgot;
Till one day; idly walking;
We marked upon the self…same spot
A crowd of veterans talking。
They shook their trembling heads and gray
With pride and noiseless laughter;
When; well…a…day! they blew away;
And ne'er were heard of after!
Helen Gray Cone '1859…1934'
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew;
And colored with the heaven's own blue;
That openest when the quiet light
Succeeds the keen and frosty night;
Thou comest not when violets lean
O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen;
Or columbines; in purple dressed;
Nod o'er the ground…bird's hidden nest。
Thou waitest late and com'st alone;
When woods are bare and birds are flown;
And frost and shortening days portend
The aged year is near his end。
Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye
Look through its fringes to the sky;
Blue … blue … as if that sky let fall
A flower from its cerulean wall。
I would that thus; when I shall see
The hour of death draw near to me;
Hope; blossoming within my heart;
May look to heaven as I depart。
William Cullen Bryant '1794…1878'
GOLDENROD
When the wayside tangles blaze
In the low September sun;
When the flowers of Summer days
Droop and wither; one by one;
Reaching up through bush and brier;
Sumptuous brow and heart of fire;
Flaunting high its wind…rocked plume;
Brave with wealth of native bloom; …
Goldenrod!
When the meadow; lately shorn;
Parched and languid; swoons with pain;
When her life…blood; night and morn;
Shrinks in every throbbing vein;
Round her fallen; tarnished urn
Leaping watch…fires brighter burn;
Royal arch o'er Autumn's gate;
Bending low with lustrous weight; …
Goldenrod!
In the pasture's rude embrace;
All o'errun with tangled vines;
Where the thistle claims its place;
And the straggling hedge confines;
Bearing still the sweet impress
Of unfettered loveliness;
In the field and by the wall;
Binding; clasping; crowning all; …
Goldenrod!
Nature lies disheveled pale;
With her feverish lips apart; …
Day by day the pulses fail;
Nearer to her bounding heart;
Yet that slackened grasp doth hold
Store of pure and genuine gold;
Quick thou comest; strong and free;
Type of all the wealth to be; …
Goldenrod!
Elaine Goodale Eastman '1863…
LESSONS FROM THE GORSE
Mountain gorses; ever…golden;
Cankered not the whole year long!
Do ye teach us to be strong;
Howsoever pricked and holden;
Like your thorny blooms; and so
Trodden on by rain and snow;
Up the hill…side of this life; as bleak as where ye grow?
Mountain blossoms; shining blossoms;
Do ye teach us to be glad
When no summer can be had;
Blooming in our inward bosoms?
Ye whom God preserveth still;
Set as lights upon a hill;
Tokens to the wintry earth that Beauty liveth still!
Mountain gorses; do ye teach us
From that academic chair
Canopied with azure air;
That the wisest word man reaches
Is the humblest he can speak?
Ye; who live on mountain peak;
Yet live low along the ground; beside the grasses meek!
Mountain gorses; since Linnaeus
Knelt beside you on the sod;
For your beauty thanking God; …
For your teaching; ye should see us
Bowing in prostration new!
Whence arisen; … if one or two
Drops be on our cheeks … O world; they are not tears but dew。
Elizabeth Barrett Browning '1806…1861'
THE VOICE OF THE GRASS
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
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