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the home book of verse-3-第47部分
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Each bears my own picked crew;
And nobler cargoes wait for them
Than ever India knew; …
My ships that sail into the East
Across that outlet blue。
Sometimes they seem like living shapes;
The people of the sky; …
Guests in white raiment coming down
From Heaven; which is close by;
I call them by familiar names;
As one by one draws nigh;
So white; so light; so spirit…like;
From violet mists they bloom!
The aching wastes of the unknown
Are half reclaimed from gloom;
Since on life's hospitable sea
All souls find sailing…room。
The ocean grows a weariness
With nothing else in sight;
Its east and west; its north and south;
Spread out from morn to night;
We miss the warm; caressing shore;
Its brooding shade and light。
A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told。
The fringes of eternity; …
God's sweeping garment…fold;
In that bright shred of glittering sea;
I reach out for; and hold。
The sails; like flakes of roseate pearl;
Float in upon the mist;
The waves are broken precious stones; …
Sapphire and amethyst;
Washed from celestial basement walls
By suns unsetting kissed。
Out through the utmost gates of space;
Past where the gray stars drift;
To the widening Infinite; my soul
Glides on; a vessel swift;
Yet loses not her anchorage
In yonder azure rift。
Here sit I; as a little child:
The threshold of God's door
Is that clear band of chrysoprase;
Now the vast temple floor;
The blinding glory of the dome
I bow my head before:
Thy universe; O God; is home;
In height or depth; to me;
Yet here upon thy footstool green
Content am I to be;
Glad; when is opened unto my need
Some sea…like glimpse of thee。
Lucy Larcom '1824…1893'
AN ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD
To Hasten Him Into The Country
Come; spur away!
I have no patience for a longer stay;
But must go down
And leave the chargeable noise of this great town:
I will the country see;
Where old simplicity;
Though hid in gray;
Doth look more gay
Than foppery in plush and scarlet clad。
Farewell; you city wits; that are
Almost at civil war …
'Tis time that I grow wise; when all the world grows mad。
More of my days
I will not spend to gain an idiot's praise;
Or to make sport
For some slight Puisne of the Inns of Court。
Then; worthy Stafford; say;
How shall we spend the day?
With what delights
Shorten the nights?
When from this tumult we are got secure;
Where mirth with all her freedom goes;
Yet shall no finger lose;
Where every word is thought; and every thought is pure?
There from the tree
We'll cherries pluck; and pick the strawberry;
And every day
Go see the wholesome country girls make hay;
Whose brown hath lovelier grace
Than any painted face
That I do know
Hyde Park can show:
Where I had rather gain a kiss than meet
(Though some of them in greater state
Might court my love with plate)
The beauties of the Cheap; and wives of Lombard Street。
But think upon
Some other pleasures: these to me are none。
Why do I prate
Of women; that are things against my fate!
I never mean to wed
That torture to my bed:
My Muse is she
My love shall be。
Let clowns get wealth and heirs: when I am gone
And that great bugbear; grisly Death;
Shall take this idle breath;
If I a poem leave; that poem is my son。
Of this no more!
We'll rather taste the bright Pomona's store。
No fruit shall 'scape
Our palates; from the damson to the grape。
Then; full; we'll seek a shade;
And hear what music's made;
How Philomel
Her tale doth tell;
And how the other birds do fill the choir;
The thrush and blackbird lend their throats;
Warbling melodious notes;
We will all sports enjoy which others but desire。
Ours is the sky;
Where at what fowl we please our hawk shall fly:
Nor will we spare
To hunt the crafty fox or timorous hare;
But let our hounds run loose
In any ground they'll choose;
The buck shall fall;
The stag; and all。
Our pleasures must from their own warrants be;
For to my Muse; if not to me;
I'm sure all game is free:
Heaven; earth; are all but parts of her great royalty。
And when we mean
To taste of Bacchus' blessings now and then;
And drink by stealth
A cup or two to noble Barkley's health;
I'll take my pipe and try
The Phrygian melody;
Which he that hears;
Lets through his ears
A madness to distemper all the brain:
Then I another pipe will take
And Done music make;
To civilize with graver notes our wits again。
Thomas Randolph '1605…1635'
〃THE MIDGES DANCE ABOON THE BURN〃
The midges dance aboon the burn;
The dews begin to fa';
The paitricks doun the rushy holm
Set up their e'ening ca'。
Now loud and clear the blackbird's sang
Rings through the briery shaw;
While; flitting gay; the swallows play
Around the castle wa'。
Beneath the golden gloamin' sky
The mavis mends her lay;
The redbreast pours his sweetest strains
To charm the lingering day;
While weary yeldrins seem to wail
Their little nestlings torn;
The merry wren; frae den to den;
Gaes jinking through the thorn。
The roses fauld their silken leaves;
The foxglove shuts its bell;
The honeysuckle and the birk
Spread fragrance through the dell。 …
Let others crowd the giddy court
Of mirth and revelry;
The simple joys that Nature yields
Are dearer far to me。
Robert Tannahill '1774…1810'
THE PLOW
Above yon somber swell of land
Thou seest the dawn's grave orange hue;
With one pale streak like yellow sand;
And over that a vein of blue。
The air is cold above the woods;
All silent is the earth and sky;
Except with his own lonely moods
The blackbird holds a colloquy。
Over the broad hill creeps a beam;
Like hope that gilds a good man's brow;
And now ascends the nostril…steam
Of stalwart horses come to plow。
Ye rigid plowmen; bear in mind
Your labor is for future hours!
Advance … spare not … nor look behind …
Plow deep and straight with all your powers。
Richard Hengist Horne '1803…1884'
THE USEFUL PLOW
A country life is sweet!
In moderate cold and heat;
To walk in the air how pleasant and fair!
In every field of wheat;
The fairest of flowers adorning the bowers;
And every meadow's brow;
So that I say; no courtier may
Compare with them who clothe in gray;
And follow the useful plow。
They rise with the morning lark;
And labor till almost dark;
Then; folding their sheep; they hasten to sleep
While every pleasant park
Next morning is ringing with birds that are singing
On each green; tender bough。
With what content and merriment
Their days are spent; whose minds are bent
To follow the; useful plow。
Unknown
〃TO ONE WHO HAS BEEN LONG IN CITY PENT〃
To one who has been long in city pent;
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven; … to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament。
Who is more happy; when; with heart's content;
Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair
Of wavy grass; and reads a debonair
And gentle tale of love and languishment?
Returning home at evening; with an ear
Catching the notes of Philomel; … and eye
Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career;
He mourns that day so soon has glided by;
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently。
John Keats '1795…1821'
THE QUIET LIFE
What pleasure have great princes
More dainty to their choice
Than herdsmen wild; who careless
In quiet life rejoice;
And fortune's fate not fearing
Sing sweet in summer morning?
Their dealings plain and rightful;
Are void of all deceit;
They never know how spiteful
It is to kneel and wait
On favorite; presumptuous;
Whose pride is vain and sumptuous。
All day their flocks each tendeth;
At night; they take their rest;
More quiet than who sendeth
His ship unto the East;
Where gold and pearl are plenty;
But getting; very dainty。
For lawyers and their pleading;
They 'steem it not a straw;
They think that honest meaning
Is of itself a law:
Whence conscience judgeth plainly;
They spend no money vainly。
O happy who thus liveth!
Not caring much for gold;
With clothing which sufficeth
To keep him from the cold。
Though poor and plain his diet
Yet merry it is; and quiet。
William Byrd '1538?…1623'
THE WISH
Well then; I now do plainly see
This busy world and I shall ne'er agree;
The very honey of all earthly joy
Does; of all meats; the soonest cloy;
And they; methinks; deserve my pity
Who for it can endure the stings;
The crowd; and buzz; and murmurings
Of this great hive; the city!
Ah; yet; ere I descend to the grave;
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends; and many books; both true;
Both wise; and both delightful too!
And since Love ne'er will from me flee; …
A mistress moderately fair;
And good as guardian…angels are;
Only beloved; and loving me!
O fountains! when in you shall I
Myself eased of unpeaceful thoughts espy?
O fields! O woods! when; when shall I be made
The happy tenant of your shade?
Here's the spring…head of pleasure's flood!
Here's wealthy Nature's treasury;
Where all the riches lie; that she
Has coined and stamped for good。
Pride and ambition here
Only in far…fetched metaphors appear;
Here naught but winds can hurtful murmurs scatter;
And naught but echo flatter。
The gods; when they descended; hither
From heaven did always choose their way;
And therefore we may boldly say
That 'tis the way too thither。
How happy here should I
And one dear She live; and embracing die!
She who is all the world; and can exclude
In deserts solitude。
I should have then thi
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