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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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