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the home book of verse-3-第39部分
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The wrecks are all thy deed; nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage; save his own;
When; for a moment; like a drop of rain;
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan;
Without a grave; unknelled; uncoffined; and unknown。
His steps are not upon thy paths; thy fields
Are not a spoil for him; … thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth's destruction thou dost all despise;
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies;
And send'st him; shivering in thy playful spray
And howling; to his Gods; where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay;
And dashest him again to earth: … there let him lay。
The armaments which thunderstrike the walls
Of rock…built cities; bidding nations quake
And monarchs tremble in their capitals;
The oak leviathans; whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator the vain title take
Of lord of thee and arbiter of war; …
These are thy toys; and; as the snowy flake;
They melt into thy yeast of waves; which mar
Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar。
Thy shores are empires; changed in all save thee; …
Assyria; Greece; Rome; Carthage; what are they?
Thy waters washed them power while they were free;
And many a tyrant since; their shores obey
The stranger; slave; or savage; their decay
Has dried up realms to deserts: … not so thou;
Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play;
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow;
Such as creation's dawn beheld; thou rollest now。
Thou glorious mirror; where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself in tempests; in all time;
Calm or convulsed; … in breeze; or gale; or storm;
Icing the pole; or in the torrid clime
Dark…heaving; … boundless; endless; and sublime; …
The image of Eternity; … the throne
Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth; dread; fathomless; alone。
And I have loved thee; Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne; like thy bubbles; onward。 From a boy
I wantoned with thy breakers; … they to me
Were a delight; and if the freshening sea
Made them a terror; 'twas a pleasing fear;
For I was as it were a child of thee;
And trusted to thy billows far and near;
And laid my hand upon thy mane; … as I do here。
George Gordon Byron '1788…1824'
ON THE SEA
It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores; and with its mighty swell
Gluts twice ten thousand caverns; till the spell
Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound。
Often 'tis in such gentle temper found;
That scarcely will the very smallest shell
Be moved for days from whence it sometime fell;
When last the winds of heaven were unbound。
Oh ye! who have your eye…balls vexed and tired;
Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;
Oh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude;
Or fed too much with cloying melody; …
Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth; and brood
Until ye start; as if the sea…nymphs quired!
John Keats '1795…1821'
〃WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED〃
With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh;
Like stars in heaven; and joyously it showed;
Some lying fast at anchor in the road;
Some veering up and down; one knew not why。
A goodly vessel did I then espy
Come like a giant from a haven broad;
And lustily along the bay she strode;
Her tackling rich; and of apparel high。
This ship was naught to me; nor I to her;
Yet I pursued her with a lover's look;
This ship to all the rest did I prefer:
When will she turn; and whither? She will brook
No tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir:
On went she; … and due north her journey took。
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
A SONG OF DESIRE
Thou dreamer with the million moods;
Of restless heart like me;
Lay thy white hands against my breast
And cool its pain; O Sea!
O wanderer of the unseen paths;
Restless of heart as I;
Blow hither; from thy caves of blue;
Wind of the healing sky!
O treader of the fiery way;
With passionate heart like mine;
Hold to my lips thy healthful cup
Brimmed with its blood…red wine!
O countless watchers of the night;
Of sleepless heart like me;
Pour your white beauty in my soul;
Till I grow calm as ye!
O sea; O sun; O wind and stars;
(O hungry heart that longs!)
Feed my starved lips with life; with love;
And touch my tongue with songs!
Frederic Lawrence Knowles '1869…1905'
THE PINES AND THE SEA
Beyond the low marsh…meadows and the beach;
Seen through the hoary trunks of windy pines;
The long blue level of the ocean shines。
The distant surf; with hoarse; complaining speech;
Out from its sandy barrier seems to reach;
And while the sun behind the woods declines;
The moaning sea with sighing boughs combines;
And waves and pines make answer; each to each。
O melancholy soul; whom far and near;
In life; faith; hope; the same sad undertone
Pursues from thought to thought! thou needs must hear
An old refrain; too much; too long thine own:
'Tis thy mortality infects thine ear;
The mournful strain was in thyself alone。
Christopher Pearse Cranch '1813…1892'
SEA FEVER
I must go down to the seas again; to the lonely sea and the sky;
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking;
And a gray mist on the sea's face; and a gray dawn breaking。
I must go down to the seas again; for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying;
And the flung spray and the blown spume; and the seagulls crying。
I must go down to the seas again; to the vagrant gipsy life;
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a
whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow…rover;
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over。
John Masefield '1878…
HASTINGS MILL
As I went down by Hastings Mill I lingered in my going
To smell the smell of piled…up deals and feel the salt wind blowing;
To hear the cables fret and creak and the ropes stir and sigh
(Shipmate; my shipmate!) as in days gone by。
As I went down by Hastings Mill I saw a ship there lying;
About her tawny yards the little clouds of sunset flying;
And half I took her for the ghost of one I used to know
(Shipmate; my shipmate!) many years ago。
As I went down by Hastings Mill I saw while I stood dreaming
The flicker of her riding light along the ripples streaming;
The bollards where we made her fast and the berth where she did lie
(Shipmate; my shipmate!) in the days gone by。
As I went down by Hastings Mill I heard a fellow singing;
Chipping off the deep sea rust above the tide a…swinging;
And well I knew the queer old tune and well the song he sung
(Shipmate; my shipmate!) when the world was young。
And past the rowdy Union Wharf; and by the still tide sleeping;
To a randy dandy deep sea tune my heart in time was keeping;
To the thin far sound of a shadowy watch a…hauling;
And the voice of one I knew across the high tide calling
(Shipmate; my shipmate!) and the late dusk falling!
Cecily Fox…Smith '1882…
〃A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA〃
A wet sheet and a flowing sea;
A wind that follows fast;
And fills the white and rustling sail;
And bends the gallant mast;
And bends the gallant mast; my boys;
While; like the eagle free;
Away the good ship flies; and leaves
Old England on the lee。
O for a soft and gentle wind!
I heard a fair one cry;
But give to me the snoring breeze
And white waves heaving high;
And white waves heaving high; my boys;
The good ship tight and free …
The world of waters is our home;
And merry men are we。
There's tempest in yon horned moon;
And lightning in yon cloud;
And hark the music; mariners!
The wind is piping loud;
The wind is piping loud; my boys;
The lightning flashes free …
While the hollow oak our palace is;
Our heritage the sea。
Allan Cunningham '1784…1842'
THE SEA
The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue; the fresh; the ever free!
Without a mark; without a bound;
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies。
I'm on the sea! I'm on the sea!
I am where I would ever be;
With the blue above; and the blue below;
And silence wheresoe'er I go;
If a storm should come and awake the deep;
What matter? I shall ride and sleep。
I love; O; how I love to ride
On the fierce; foaming; bursting tide;
When every mad wave drowns the moon
Or whistles aloft his tempest tune;
And tells how goeth the world below;
And why the sou'west blasts do blow。
I never was on the dull; tame shore;
But I loved the great sea more and more。
And backwards flew to her billowy breast;
Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest;
And a mother she was; and is; to me;
For I was born on the open sea!
The waves were white; and red the morn;
In the noisy hour when I was born;
And the whale it whistled; the porpoise rolled;
And the dolphins bared their backs of gold;
And never was heard such an outcry wild
As welcomed to life the ocean…child!
I've lived since then; in calm and strife;
Full fifty summers; a sailor's life;
With wealth to spend and a power to range;
But never have sought nor sighed for change;
And Death; whenever he comes to me;
Shall come on the wild; unbounded sea!
Bryan Waller Procter '1787…1874'
SAILOR'S SONG
From 〃Death's Jest…Book〃
To sea; to sea! The calm is o'er;
The wanton water leaps in sport;
And rattles down the pebbly shore;
The dolphin wheels; the sea…cows snort;
And unseen mermaids' pearly song
Comes bubbli
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