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the home book of verse-3-第33部分
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While birds; and butterflies; and flowers
Make all one band of paramours;
Thou; ranging up and down the bowers;
Art sole in thy employment;
A Life; a Presence like the air;
Scattering thy gladness without care;
Too blest with any one to pair;
Thyself thy own enjoyment。
Amid yon tuft of hazel trees;
That twinkle to the gusty breeze;
Behold him perched in ecstasies;
Yet seeming still to hover;
There! where the flutter of his wings
Upon his back and body flings
Shadows and sunny glimmerings;
That cover him all over。
My dazzled sight he oft deceives …
A Brother of the dancing leaves;
Then flits; and from the cottage…eaves
Pours forth his song in gushes;
As if by that exulting strain
He mocked and treated with disdain
The voiceless Form he chose to feign
While fluttering in the bushes。
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
TO THE MAN…OF…WAR…BIRD
Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm;
Waking renewed on thy prodigious pinions;
(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended'st;
And rested on the sky; thy slave that cradled thee;)
Now a blue point; far; far in heaven floating;
As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee;
(Myself a speck; a point on the world's floating vast。)
Far; far at sea;
After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks;
With re…appearing day as now so happy and serene;
The rosy and elastic dawn; the flashing sun;
The limpid spread of air cerulean;
Thou also re…appearest。
Thou born to match the gale; (thou art all wings;)
To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane;
Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails;
Days; even weeks untired and onward; through spaces; realms gyrating;
At dusk that look'st on Senegal; at morn America;
That sport'st amid the lightning…flash and thunder…cloud;
In them; in thy experiences; hadst thou my soul;
What joys! what joys were thine!
Walt Whitman '1819…1892'
THE MARYLAND YELLOW…THROAT
When May bedecks the naked trees
With tassels and embroideries;
And many blue…eyed violets beam
Along the edges of the stream;
I hear a voice that seems to say;
Now near at hand; now far away;
〃Witchery … witchery … witchery。〃
An incantation so serene;
So innocent; befits the scene:
There's magic in that small bird's note …
See; there he flits … the Yellow…throat;
A living sunbeam; tipped with wings;
A spark of light that shines and sings
〃Witchery … witchery … witchery。〃
You prophet with a pleasant name;
If out of Mary…land you came;
You know the way that thither goes
Where Mary's lovely garden grows:
Fly swiftly back to her; I pray;
And try; to call her down this way;
〃Witchery … witchery … witchery!〃
Tell her to leave her cockle…shells;
And all her little silver bells
That blossom into melody;
And all her maids less fair than she。
She does not need these pretty things;
For everywhere she comes; she brings
〃Witchery … witchery … witchery!〃
The woods are greening overhead;
And flowers adorn each mossy bed;
The waters babble as they run …
One thing is lacking; only one:
If Mary were but here to…day;
I would believe your charming lay;
〃Witchery … witchery … witchery!〃
Along the shady road I look …
Who's coming now across the brook?
A woodland maid; all robed in white …
The leaves dance round her with delight;
The stream laughs out beneath her feet …
Sing; merry bird; the charm's complete;
〃Witchery … witchery … witchery!〃
Henry Van Dyke '1852…1933'
LAMENT OF A MOCKING…BIRD
Silence instead of thy sweet song; my bird;
Which through the darkness of my winter days
Warbling of summer sunshine still was heard;
Mute is thy song; and vacant is thy place。
The spring comes back again; the fields rejoice;
Carols of gladness ring from every tree;
But I shall hear thy wild triumphant voice
No more: my summer song has died with thee。
What didst thou sing of; O my summer bird?
The broad; bright; brimming river; whose swift sweep
And whirling eddies by the home are heard;
Rushing; resistless; to the calling deep。
What didst thou sing of; thou melodious sprite?
Pine forests; with smooth russet carpets spread;
Where e'en at noonday dimly falls the light;
Through gloomy blue…green branches overhead。
What didst thou sing of; O thou jubilant soul?
Ever…fresh flowers and never…leafless trees;
Bending great ivory cups to the control
Of the soft swaying; orange scented breeze。
What didst thou sing of; thou embodied glee?
The wide wild marshes with their clashing reeds
And topaz…tinted channels; where the sea
Daily its tides of briny freshness leads。
What didst thou sing of; O thou winged voice?
Dark; bronze…leaved oaks; with silver mosses crowned;
Where thy free kindred live; love; and rejoice;
With wreaths of golden jasmine curtained round。
These didst thou sing of; spirit of delight!
From thy own radiant sky; thou quivering spark!
These thy sweet southern dreams of warmth and light;
Through the grim northern winter drear and dark。
Frances Anne Kemble '1809…1893'
〃O NIGHTINGALE! THOU SURELY ART〃
O nightingale! thou surely art
A creature of a 〃fiery heart〃: …
These notes of thine … they pierce and pierce;
Tumultuous harmony and fierce!
Thou sing'st as if the God of wine
Had helped thee to a Valentine;
A song in mockery and despite
Of shades; and dews; and silent night;
And steady bliss; and all the loves
Now sleeping in these peaceful groves。
I heard a Stock…dove sing or say
His homely tale; this very day;
His voice was buried among trees;
Yet to be come at by the breeze:
He did not cease; but cooed … and cooed;
And somewhat pensively he wooed:
He sang of love; with quiet blending;
Slow to begin; and never ending;
Of serious faith; and inward glee;
That was the Song … the Song for me!
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
PHILOMEL
As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May;
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made;
Beasts did leap and birds did sing;
Trees did grow and plants did spring;
Everything did banish moan
Save the Nightingale alone:
She; poor bird; as all forlorn
Leaned her breast up…till a thorn;
And there sung the doleful'st ditty;
That to hear it was great pity。
Fie; fie; fie! now would she cry;
Tereu; Tereu! by and by;
That to hear her so complain
Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs so lively shown
Made me think upon mine own。
Ah! thought I; thou mourn'st in vain;
None takes pity on thy pain:
Senseless trees they cannot hear thee;
Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee:
King Pandion he is dead;
All thy friends are lapped in lead;
All thy fellow birds do sing
Careless of thy sorrowing:
Even so; poor bird; like thee;
None alive will pity me。
Richard Barnfield '1574…1627'
PHILOMELA
Hark! ah; the nightingale …
The tawny…throated!
Hark; from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
What triumph! hark! … what pain!
O wanderer from a Grecian shore;
Still; after many years; in distant lands;
Still nourishing in thy bewildered brain
That wild; unquenched; deep…sunken; old…world pain …
Say; will it never heal?
And can this fragrant lawn
With its cool trees; and night;
And the sweet; tranquil Thames;
And moonshine; and the dew;
To thy racked heart and brain
Afford no balm?
Dost thou to…night behold;
Here; through the moonlight on this English grass;
The unfriendly palace in the Thracian wild?
Dost thou again peruse
With hot cheeks and seared eyes
The too clear web; and thy dumb sister's shame?
Dost thou once more assay
Thy flight; and feel come over thee;
Poor fugitive; the feathery change
Once more; and once more seem to make resound
With love and hate; triumph and agony;
Lone Daulis; and the high Cephissian vale?
Listen; Eugenia …
How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves!
Again … thou hearest?
Eternal passion!
Eternal pain!
Matthew Arnold '1822…1888'
ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL
The yellow moon is a dancing phantom
Down secret ways of the flowing shade;
And the waveless stream has a murmuring whisper
Where the alders wave。
Not a breath; not a sigh; save the slow stream's whisper:
Only the moon is a dancing blade
That leads a host of the Crescent warriors
To a phantom raid。
Out of the Lands of Faerie a summons;
A long; strange cry that thrills through the glade: …
The gray…green glooms of the elm are stirring;
Newly afraid。
Last heard; white music; under the olives
Where once Theocritus sang and played …
Thy Thracian song is the old new wonder;
O moon…white maid!
William Sharp '1855…1905'
TO THE NIGHTINGALE
Dear chorister; who from those shadows sends;
Ere that the blushing morn dare show her light;
Such sad lamenting strains; that night attends;
Become all ear; stars stay to hear thy plight:
If one whose grief even reach of thought transcends;
Who ne'er; not in a dream; did taste delight;
May thee importune who like care pretends;
And seems to joy in woe; in woe's despite;
Tell me (so may thou fortune milder try;
And long; long sing) for what thou thus complains;
Since; winter gone; the sun in dappled sky
Now smiles on meadows; mountains; woods; and plains?
The bird; as if my questions did her move;
With trembling wings sobbed forth; I love! I love!〃
William Drummond '1585…1649'
THE NIGHTINGALE
To…night retired; the queen of heaven
With young Endymion stays;
And now to Hesper it is given
Awhile to rule the vacant sky;
Till she shall to her lamp supply
A stream of brighter rays。 。 。 。
Propitious send thy golden ray;
Thou purest light above:
Let no false flame seduce to stray
Where gul
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