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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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