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the home book of verse-3-第35部分
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Of dust and shadow shot with sun …
Stretches its gloom from pier to pier;
Far unto alien coasts unknown。
And on these alien coasts; above;
Where silver ripples break the stream's
Long blue; from some roof…sheltering grove
A hidden parrot scolds and screams。
Ah; nothing; nothing! Commonest things:
A touch; a glimpse; a sound; a breath …
It is a song the oriole sings …
And all the rest belongs to death。
But oriole; my oriole;
Were some bright seraph sent from bliss
With songs of heaven to win my soul
From simple memories such as this;
What could he tell to tempt my ear
From you? What high thing could there be;
So tenderly and sweetly dear
As my lost boyhood is to me?
William Dean Howells '1837…1920'
TO AN ORIOLE
How falls it; oriole; thou hast come to fly
In tropic splendor through our Northern sky?
At some glad moment was it nature's choice
To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
Or did some orange tulip; flaked with black;
In some forgotten garden; ages back;
Yearning toward Heaven until its wish was heard;
Desire unspeakably to be a bird?
Edgar Fawcett '1847…1904'
SONG: THE OWL
When cats run home and light is come;
And dew is cold upon the ground;
And the far…off stream is dumb;
And the whirring sail goes round;
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits;
The white owl in the belfry sits。
When merry milkmaids click the latch;
And rarely smells the new…mown hay;
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay;
Twice or thrice his roundelay;
Alone and warming his five wits;
The white owl in the belfry sits。
Alfred Tennyson '1809…1892'
SWEET SUFFOLK OWL
Sweet Suffolk owl; so trimly dight
With feathers; like a lady bright;
Thou sing'st alone; sitting by night;
〃Te whit! Te whoo!〃
Thy note that forth so freely rolls
With shrill command the mouse controls;
And sings a dirge for dying souls。
〃Te whit! Te whoo!〃
Thomas Vautor 'fl。 1616'
THE PEWEE
The listening Dryads hushed the woods;
The boughs were thick; and thin and few
The golden ribbons fluttering through;
Their sun…embroidered; leafy hoods
The lindens lifted to the blue:
Only a little forest…brook
The farthest hem of silence shook:
When in the hollow shades I heard; …
Was it a spirit; or a bird?
Or; strayed from Eden; desolate;
Some Peri calling to her mate;
Whom nevermore her mate would cheer?
Pe…ri! pe…ri! peer!〃
Through rocky clefts the brooklet fell
With plashy pour; that scarce was sound;
But only quiet less profound;
A stillness fresh and audible:
A yellow leaflet to the ground
Whirled noiselessly: with wing of gloss
A hovering sunbeam brushed the moss;
And; wavering brightly over it;
Sat like a butterfly alit:
The owlet in his open door
Stared roundly: while the breezes bore
The plaint to far…off places drear; …
〃Pe…ree! pe…ree! peer!〃
To trace it in its green retreat
I sought among the boughs in vain;
And followed still the wandering strain;
So melancholy and so sweet
The dim…eyed violets yearned with pain。
'Twas now a sorrow in the air;
Some nymph's immortalized despair
Haunting the woods and waterfalls;
And now; at long; sad intervals;
Sitting unseen in dusky shade;
His plaintive pipe some fairy played;
With long…drawn cadence thin and clear; …
〃Pe…wee! pe…wee! peer!〃
Long…drawn and clear its closes were; …
As if the hand of Music through
The somber robe of Silence drew
A thread of golden gossamer:
So pure a flute the fairy blew。
Like beggared princes of the wood;
In silver rags the birches stood;
The hemlocks; lordly counselors;
Were dumb; the sturdy servitors;
In beechen jackets patched and gray;
Seemed waiting spellbound all the day
That low; entrancing note to hear; …
〃Pe…wee! pe…wee! peer!〃
I quit the search; and sat me down
Beside the brook; irresolute;
And watched a little bird in suit
Of sober olive; soft and brown;
Perched in the maple…branches; mute:
With greenish gold its vest was fringed;
Its tiny cap was ebon…tinged;
With ivory pale its wings were barred;
And its dark eyes were tender…starred。
〃Dear bird;〃 I said; 〃what is thy name?〃
And thrice the mournful answer came;
So faint and far; and yet so near; …
〃Pe…wee! pe…wee! peer!〃
For so I found my forest bird; …
The pewee of the loneliest woods;
Sole singer in these solitudes;
Which never robin's whistle stirred;
Where never bluebird's plume intrudes。
Quick darting through the dewy morn;
The redstart trilled his twittering horn;
And vanished in thick boughs: at even;
Like liquid pearls fresh showered from heaven;
The high notes of the lone wood…thrush
Fall on the forest's holy hush:
But thou all day complainest here; …
〃Pe…wee! pe…wee! peer!〃
Hast thou; too; in thy little breast;
Strange longings for a happier lot; …
For love; for life; thou know'st not what; …
A yearning; and a vague unrest;
For something still which thou hast not? …
Thou soul of some benighted child
That perished; crying in the wild!
Or lost; forlorn; and wandering maid;
By love allured; by love betrayed;
Whose spirit with her latest sigh
Arose; a little winged cry;
Above her chill and mossy bier!
〃Dear me! dear me! dear!〃
Ah; no such piercing sorrow mars
The pewee's life of cheerful ease!
He sings; or leaves his song to seize
An insect sporting in the bars
Of mild bright light that gild the trees。
A very poet he! For him
All pleasant places still and dim:
His heart; a spark of heavenly fire;
Burns with undying; sweet desire:
And so he sings; and so his song;
Though heard not by the hurrying throng;
Is solace to the pensive ear:
Pewee! pewee! peer!
John Townsend Trowbridge '1827…1916'
ROBIN REDBREAST
Sweet Robin; I have heard them say
That thou wert there upon the day
The Christ was crowned in cruel scorn
And bore away one bleeding thorn; …
That so the blush upon thy breast;
In shameful sorrow; was impressed;
And thence thy genial sympathy
With our redeemed humanity。
Sweet Robin; would that I might be
Bathed in my Saviour's blood; like thee;
Bear in my breast; whate'er the loss;
The bleeding blazon of the cross;
Live ever; with thy loving mind;
In fellowship with human…kind;
And take my pattern still from thee;
In gentleness and constancy。
George Washington Doane '1799…1859'
ROBIN REDBREAST
Good…by; good…by to Summer!
For Summer's nearly done; …
The garden smiling faintly;
Cool breezes in the sun;
Our thrushes now are silent;
Our swallows flown away; …
But Robin's here in coat of brown;
And scarlet breast…knot gay。
Robin; Robin Redbreast;
O Robin dear!
Robin sings so sweetly
In the falling of the year。
Bright yellow; red; and orange;
The leaves come down in hosts;
The trees are Indian princes;
But soon they'll turn to ghosts;
The scanty pears and apples
Hang russet on the bough;
It's Autumn; Autumn; Autumn late;
'Twill soon be Winter now。
Robin; Robin Redbreast;
O Robin dear!
And what will this poor Robin do?
For pinching days are near。
The fireside for the cricket;
The wheat…stack for the mouse;
When trembling night…winds whistle
And moan all round the house。
The frosty ways like iron;
The branches plumed with snow; …
Alas! in Winter dead and dark;
Where can poor Robin go?
Robin; Robin Redbreast;
O Robin dear!
And a crumb of bread for Robin;
His little heart to cheer!
William Allingham '1824…1889'
THE SANDPIPER
Across the narrow beach we flit;
One little sandpiper and I;
And fast I gather; bit by bit;
The scattered driftwood bleached and dry。
The wild waves reach their hands for it;
The wild wind raves; the tide runs high;
As up and down the beach we flit; …
One little sandpiper and I。
Above our heads the sullen clouds
Scud black and swift across the sky;
Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds
Stand out the white lighthouses high。
Almost as far as eye can reach
I see the close…reefed vessels fly;
As fast we flit along the beach; …
One little sandpiper and I。
I watch him as he skims along;
Uttering his sweet and mournful cry。
He starts not at my fitful song;
Or flash of fluttering drapery。
He has no thought of any wrong;
He scans me with a fearless eye:
Staunch friends are we; well tried and strong;
The little sandpiper and I。
Comrade; where wilt thou be to…night
When the loosed storm breaks furiously?
My driftwood fire will burn so bright!
To what warm shelter canst thou fly?
I do not fear for thee; though wroth
The tempest rushes through the sky:
For are we not God's children both;
Thou; little sandpiper; and I?
Celia Thaxter '1835…1894'
THE SEA…MEW
How joyously the young sea…mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue;
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade; the only one; …
But shadows ever man pursue。
Familiar with the waves and free
As if their own white foam were he;
His heart upon the heart of ocean
Lay learning all its mystic motion;
And throbbing to the throbbing sea。
And such a brightness in his eye;
As if the ocean and the sky
Within him had lit up and nursed
A soul God gave him not at first
To comprehend their majesty。
We were not cruel; yet did sunder
His white wing from the blue waves under;
And bound it; while his fearless eyes
Shone up to ours in calm surprise;
As deeming us some ocean wonder!
We bore our ocean bird unto
A grassy place; where he might view
The flowers that curtsey to the bees;
The waving of the tall green trees;
The falling of the silver dew。
But flowers of earth were pale to him
Who had seen the rainbow fishes
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