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the home book of verse-3-第26部分
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THE VOICE OF THE GRASS
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
By the dusty roadside;
On the sunny hillside;
Close by the noisy brook;
In every shady nook;
I come creeping; creeping everywhere。
Here I come creeping; smiling everywhere;
All round the open door;
Where here sit the aged poor;
Here where the children play;
In the bright and merry May;
I come creeping; creeping everywhere。
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
In the noisy city street
My pleasant face you'll meet;
Cheering the sick at heart
Toiling his busy part; …
Silently creeping; creeping everywhere。
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
You cannot see me coming;
Nor hear my low sweet humming;
For in the starry night;
And the glad morning light;
I come quietly creeping everywhere。
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
More welcome than the flowers
In summer's pleasant hours;
The gentle cow is glad;
And the merry bird not sad;
To see me creeping; creeping everywhere。
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
When you're numbered with the dead
In your still and narrow bed;
In the happy spring I'll come
And deck your silent home; …
Creeping; silently creeping everywhere。
Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;
My humble song of praise
Most joyfully I raise
To Him at whose command
I beautify the land;
Creeping; silently creeping everywhere。
Sarah Roberts Boyle '1812…1869'
A SONG THE GRASS SINGS
The violet is much too shy;
The rose too little so;
I think I'll ask the buttercup
If I may be her beau。
When winds go by; I'll nod to her
And she will nod to me;
And I will kiss her on the cheek
As gently as may be。
And when the mower cuts us down;
Together we will pass;
I smiling at the buttercup;
She smiling at the grass。
Charles G。 Blanden '1857…
THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE
Fair flower; that dost so comely grow;
Hid in this silent; dull retreat;
Untouched thy honied blossoms blow;
Unseen thy little branches greet:
No roving foot shall crush thee here;
No busy hand provoke a tear。
By Nature's self in white arrayed;
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye;
And planted here the guardian shade;
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly thy summer goes;
Thy days declining to repose。
Smit with those charms; that must decay;
I grieve to see your future doom;
They died … nor were those flowers more gay;
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power
Shall leave no vestige of this flower。
From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came;
If nothing once; you nothing lose;
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour;
The frail duration of a flower。
Philip Freneau '1752…1832'
THE IVY GREEN
Oh; a dainty plant is the Ivy green;
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are his meals I ween;
In his cell so lone and cold。
The wall must be crumbled; the stone decayed;
To pleasure his dainty whim;
And the mouldering dust that years have made
Is a merry meal for him。
Creeping where no life is seen;
A rare old plant is the Ivy green。
Fast he stealeth on; though he wears no wings;
And a staunch old heart has he。
How closely he twineth; how tight he clings
To his friend the huge Oak Tree!
And slily he traileth along the ground;
And his leaves he gently waves;
As he joyously hugs and crawleth round
The rich mould of dead men's graves。
Creeping where grim death has been;
A rare old plant is the Ivy green。
Whole ages have fled and their works decayed;
And nations have scattered been;
But the stout old Ivy shall never fade;
From its hale and hearty green。
The brave old plant; in its lonely days;
Shall fatten upon the past:
For the stateliest building man can raise
Is the Ivy's food at last。
Creeping on; where time has been;
A rare old plant is the Ivy green。
Charles Dickens '1812…1870'
YELLOW JESSAMINE
In tangled wreaths; in clustered gleaming stars;
In floating; curling sprays;
The golden flower comes shining through the woods
These February days;
Forth go all hearts; all hands; from out the town;
To bring her gayly in;
This wild; sweet Princess of far Florida …
The yellow jessamine。
The live…oaks smile to see her lovely face
Peep from the thickets; shy;
She hides behind the leaves her golden buds
Till; bolder grown; on high
She curls a tendril; throws a spray; then flings
Herself aloft in glee;
And; bursting into thousand blossoms; swings
In wreaths from tree to tree。
The dwarf…palmetto on his knees adores
This Princess of the air;
The lone pine…barren broods afar and sighs;
〃Ah! come; lest I despair;〃
The myrtle…thickets and ill…tempered thorns
Quiver and thrill within;
As through their leaves they feel the dainty touch
Of yellow jessamine。
The garden…roses wonder as they see
The wreaths of golden bloom;
Brought in from the far woods with eager haste
To deck the poorest room;
The rich man's house; alike; the loaded hands
Give sprays to all they meet;
Till; gay with flowers; the people come and go;
And all the air is sweet。
The Southern land; well weary of its green
Which may not fall nor fade;
Bestirs itself to greet the lovely flower
With leaves of fresher shade;
The pine has tassels; and the orange…trees
Their fragrant work begin:
The spring has come … has come to Florida;
With yellow jessamine。
Constance Fenimore Woolson '1840…1894'
KNAP WEED
By copse and hedgerow; waste and wall;
He thrusts his cushions red;
O'er burdock rank; o'er thistles tall;
He rears his hardy head:
Within; without; the strong leaves press;
He screens the mossy stone;
Lord of a narrow wilderness;
Self…centred and alone。
He numbers no observant friends;
He soothes no childish woes;
Yet nature nurtures him; and tends
As duly as the rose;
He drinks the blessed dew of heaven;
The wind is in his ears;
To guard his growth the planets seven
Swing in their airy spheres。
The spirits of the fields and woods
Throb in his sturdy veins:
He drinks the secret; stealing floods;
And swills the volleying rains:
And when the bird's note showers and breaks
The wood's green heart within;
He stirs his plumy brow and wakes
To draw the sunlight in。
Mute sheep that pull the grasses soft
Crop close and pass him by;
Until he stands alone; aloft;
In surly majesty。
No fly so keen; no bee so bold;
To pierce that knotted zone;
He frowns as though he guarded gold;
And yet he garners none。
And so when autumn winds blow late;
And whirl the chilly wave;
He bows before the common fate;
And drops beside his grave。
None ever owed him thanks or said
〃A gift of gracious heaven。〃
Down in the mire he droops his head;
Forgotten; not forgiven。
Smile on; brave weed! let none inquire
What made or bade thee rise:
Toss thy tough fingers high and higher
To flout the drenching skies。
Let others toil for others' good;
And miss or mar their own;
Thou hast brave health and fortitude
To live and die alone!
Arthur Christopher Benson '1862…1925'
MOLY
The root is hard to loose
From hold of earth by mortals; but God's power
Can all things do。 'Tis black; but bears a flower
As white as milk。
… Chapman's Homer
Traveler; pluck a stem of moly;
If thou touch at Circe's isle; …
Hermes' moly; growing solely
To undo enchanter's wile!
When she proffers thee her chalice; …
Wine and spices mixed with malice; …
When she smites thee with her staff;
To transform thee; do thou laugh!
Safe thou art if thou but bear
The least leaf of moly rare。
Close it grows beside her portal;
Springing from a stock immortal; …
Yes! and often has the Witch
Sought to tear it from its niche;
But to thwart her cruel will
The wise God renews it still。
Though it grows in soil perverse;
Heaven hath been its jealous nurse;
And a flower of snowy mark
Springs from root and sheathing dark;
Kingly safeguard; only herb
That can brutish passion curb!
Some do think its name should be
Shield…Heart; White Integrity。
Traveler; pluck a stem of moly;
If thou touch at Circe's isle; …
Hermes' moly; growing solely
To undo enchanter's wile!
Edith M。 Thomas '1854…1925'
THE MORNING…GLORY
Was it worth while to paint so fair
Thy every leaf … to vein with faultless art
Each petal; taking the boon light and air
Of summer so to heart?
To bring thy beauty unto perfect flower;
Then; like a passing fragrance or a smile;
Vanish away; beyond recovery's power …
Was it; frail bloom; worth while?
Thy silence answers: 〃Life was mine!
And I; who pass without regret or grief;
Have cared the more to make my moment fine;
Because it was so brief。
〃In its first radiance I have seen
The sun! … why tarry then till comes the night?
I go my way; content that I have been
Part of the morning light!〃
Florence Earle Coates '1850…1927'
THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S…EASE
By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting;
By furrowed glade and dell;
To feverish men thy calm; sweet face uplifting;
Thou stayest them to tell
The delicate thought that cannot find expression;
For ruder speech too fair;
That; like thy petals; trembles in possession;
And scatters on the air。
The miner pauses in his rugged labor;
And; leaning on his spade;
Laughingly calls unto his comrade…neighbor
To see thy charms displayed。
But in his eyes a mist unwonted rises;
And for a moment clear
Some sweet home face his foolish thought surprises
And passes in a tear; …
Some boyish vision of his Eastern village;
Of uneventful toil;
Where golden harv
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