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the home book of verse-3-第6部分
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A SONG FOR THE SEASONS
When the merry lark doth gild
With his song the summer hours;
And their nests the swallows build
In the roofs and tops of towers;
And the golden broom…flower burns
All about the waste;
And the maiden May returns
With a pretty haste; …
Then; how merry are the times!
The Spring times! the Summer times!
Now; from off the ashy stone
The chilly midnight cricket crieth;
And all merry birds are flown;
And our dream of pleasure dieth;
Now the once blue; laughing sky
Saddens into gray;
And the frozen rivers sigh;
Pining all away!
Now; how solemn are the times!
The Winter times! the Night times!
Yet; be merry; all around
Is through one vast change revolving;
Even Night; who lately frowned;
Is in paler dawn dissolving;
Earth will burst her fetters strange;
And in Spring grow free;
All things in the world will change;
Save … my love for thee!
Sing then; hopeful are all times!
Winter; Spring; Summer times!
Bryan Waller Procter '1787…1874'
A SONG OF THE SEASONS
Sing a song of Spring…time;
The world is going round;
Blown by the south wind:
Listen to its sound。
〃Gurgle〃 goes the mill…wheel;
〃Cluck〃 clucks the hen;
And it's O for a pretty girl
To kiss in the glen。
Sing a song of Summer;
The world is nearly still;
The mill…pond has gone to sleep;
And so has the mill。
Shall we go a…sailing;
Or shall we take a ride;
Or dream the afternoon away
Here; side by side?
Sing a song of Autumn;
The world is going back;
They glean in the corn…field;
And stamp on the stack。
Our boy; Charlie;
Tall; strong; and light:
He shoots all the day
And dances all the night。
Sing a song of Winter;
The world stops dead;
Under snowy coverlid
Flowers lie abed。
There's hunting for the young ones
And wine for the old;
And a sexton in the churchyard
Digging in the cold。
Cosmo Monkhouse '1840…1901'
TURN O' THE YEAR
This is the time when bit by bit
The days begin to lengthen sweet
And every minute gained is joy …
And love stirs in the heart of a boy。
This is the time the sun; of late
Content to lie abed till eight;
Lifts up betimes his sleepy head …
And love stirs in the heart of a maid。
This is the time we dock the night
Of a whole hour of candlelight;
When song of linnet and thrush is heard …
And love stirs in the heart of a bird。
This is the time when sword…blades green;
With gold and purple damascene;
Pierce the brown crocus…bed a…row …
And love stirs in a heart I know。
Katherine Tynan Hinkson '1861…1931'
THE WAKING YEAR
A lady red upon the hill
Her annual secret keeps;
A lady white within the field
In placid lily sleeps!
The tidy breezes with their brooms
Sweep vale; and hill; and tree!
Prithee; my pretty housewives!
Who may expected be?
The neighbors do not yet suspect!
The woods exchange a smile; …
Orchard; and buttercup; and bird;
In such a little while!
And yet how still the landscape stands;
How nonchalant the wood;
As if the resurrection
Were nothing very odd!
Emily Dickinson '1830…1886'
SONG
From 〃Pippa Passes〃
The year's at the spring;
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill…side's dew…pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His Heaven …
All's right with the world!
Robert Browning '1812…1889'
EARLY SPRING
Once more the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new;
And domes the red…plowed hills
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills;
The throstles too。
Opens a door in Heaven;
From skies of glass
A Jacob's ladder falls
On greening grass;
And o'er the mountain…walls
Young angels pass。
Before them fleets the shower;
And burst the buds;
And shine the level lands;
And flash the floods;
The stars are from their hands
Flung through the woods;
The woods with living airs
How softly fanned;
Light airs from where the deep;
All down the sand;
Is breathing in his sleep;
Heard by the land。
O; follow; leaping blood;
The season's lure!
O heart; look down and up;
Serene; secure;
Warm as the crocus cup;
Like snow…drops; pure!
Past; Future glimpse and fade
Through some slight spell;
A gleam from yonder vale;
Some far blue fell;
And sympathies; how frail;
In sound and smell!
Till at thy chuckled note;
Thou twinkling bird;
The fairy fancies range;
And; lightly stirred;
Ring little bells of change
From word to word。
For now the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new;
And thaws the cold; and fills
The flower with dew;
The blackbirds have their wills;
The poets too。
Alfred Tennyson '1809…1892'
LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING
I heard a thousand blended notes;
While in a grove I sat reclined;
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind。
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man。
Through primrose tufts; in that sweet bower;
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes。
The birds around me hopped and played;
Their thoughts I cannot measure; …
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure。
The budding twigs spread out their fan
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think; do all I can;
That there was pleasure there。
If this belief from heaven be sent;
If such be Nature's holy plan;
Have I not reason to lament
What Man has made of Man?
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
IN EARLY SPRING
O Spring; I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise
In the young children's eyes。
But I have learnt the years; and know the yet
Leaf…folded violet。
Mine ear; awake to silence; can foretell
The cuckoo's fitful bell。
I wander in a gray time that encloses
June and the wild hedge…roses。
A year's procession of the flowers doth pass
My feet; along the grass。
And all you sweet birds silent yet; I know
The notes that stir you so;
Your songs yet half devised in the dim dear
Beginnings of the year。
In these young days you meditate your part;
I have it all by heart。
I know the secrets of the seeds of flowers
Hidden and warm with showers;
And how; in kindling Spring; the cuckoo shall
Alter his interval。
But not a flower or song I ponder is
My own; but memory's。
I shall be silent in those days desired
Before a world inspired。
O dear brown birds; compose your old song…phrases;
Earth; thy familiar daisies。
The poet mused upon the dusky height;
Between two stars towards night;
His purpose in his heart。 I watched; a space;
The meaning of his face:
There was the secret; fled from earth and skies;
Hid in his gray young eyes。
My heart and all the Summer wait his choice;
And wonder for his voice。
Who shall foretell his songs; and who aspire
But to divine his lyre?
Sweet earth; we know thy dimmest mysteries;
But he is lord of his。
Alice Meynell '1850…1922'
SPRING
From 〃Summer's Last Will and Testament〃
Spring; the sweet Spring; is the year's pleasant king;
Then blooms each thing; then maids dance in a ring;
Cold doth not sting; the pretty birds do sing …
Cuckoo; jug…jug; pu…we; to…witta…woo!
The palm and may make country houses gay;
Lambs frisk and play; the shepherds pipe all day;
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay …
Cuckoo; jug…jug; pu…we; to…witta…woo!
The fields breathe sweet; the daisies kiss our feet;
Young lovers meet; old wives a…sunning sit;
In every street these tunes our ears do greet …
Cuckoo; jug…jug; pu…we; to…witta…too!
Spring; the sweet Spring!
Thomas Nashe '1567…1601'
A STARLING'S SPRING RONDEL
I clink my castanet
And beat my little drum;
For spring at last has come;
And on my parapet;
Of chestnut; gummy…wet;
Where bees begin to hum;
I clink my castanet;
And beat my little drum。
〃Spring goes;〃 you say; 〃suns set。〃
So be it! Why be glum?
Enough; the spring has come;
And without fear or fret
I clink my castanet;
And beat my little drum。
James Cousins '1873…
〃WHEN DAFFODILS BEGIN TO PEER〃
From 〃The Winter's Tale〃
When daffodils begin to peer;
With heigh! the doxy; over the dale;
Why; then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale。
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge;
With heigh! the sweet birds; O; how they sing!
Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king。
The; lark; that tirra…lirra chants;
With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay;
Are summer songs for me and my aunts;
While we lie tumbling in the hay。
William Shakespeare '1564…1616'
SPRING
From 〃In Memoriam〃
LXXXIII
Dip down upon the northern shore;
O sweet new…year; delaying long;
Thou doest expectant Nature wrong;
Delaying long; delay no more。
What stays thee from the clouded noons;
Thy sweetness from its proper place?
Can trouble live with April days;
Or sadness in the summer moons?
Bring orchis; bring the fox…glove spire;
The little speedwell's darling blue;
Deep tulips dashed with fiery dew;
Laburnums; dropping…wells of fire。
O thou; new…year; delaying long;
Delayest the sorrow in my blood;
That longs to burst a frozen bud;
And flood a fresher throat with song。
CXV
Now fades the last long streak of snow;
Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares; and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow。
Now rings the woodland loud and long;
The distance takes a lovelier hue;
And drowned in yonder living blue
The lark becomes a si
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