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the home book of verse-3-第8部分
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But close at the hearth;
Like a cricket; sit I;
Reading of summer
And chivalry …
Gallant chivalry!
Then with an old friend
I talk of our youth!
How 'twas gladsome; but often
Foolish; forsooth:
But gladsome; gladsome!
Or to get merry
We sing some old rhyme;
That made the wood ring again
In summer time …
Sweet summer time!
Then go we to smoking;
Silent and snug:
Naught passes between us;
Save a brown jug …
Sometimes!
And sometimes a tear
Will rise in each eye;
Seeing the two old friends
So merrily …
So merrily!
And ere to bed
Go we; go we;
Down on the ashes
We kneel on the knee;
Praying together!
Thus; then; live I;
Till; 'mid all the gloom;
By heaven! the bold sun
Is with me in the room
Shining; shining!
Then the clouds part;
Swallows soaring between;
The spring is alive;
And the meadows are green!
I jump up; like mad;
Break the old pipe in twain;
And away to the meadows;
The meadows again!
Edward Fitzgerald '1809…1883'
THE SPRING
When wintry weather's all a…done;
An' brooks do sparkle in the zun;
An' naisy…builden rooks do vlee
Wi' sticks toward their elem tree;
When birds do zing; an' we can zee
Upon the boughs the buds o' spring; …
Then I'm as happy as a king;
A…vield wi' health an' zunsheen。
Vor then the cowlsip's hangen flower
A…wetted in the zunny shower;
Do grow wi' vi'lets; sweet o' smell;
Bezide the wood…screened graegle's bell;
Where drushes' aggs; wi' sky…blue shell;
Do lie in mossy nest among
The thorns; while they do zing their zong
At evenen in the zunsheen。
An' God do meake his win' to blow
An' rain to vall vor high an' low;
An' bid his mornen zun to rise
Vor all alike; an' groun' an' skies
Ha' colors vor the poor man's eyes:
An' in our trials He is near;
To hear our mwoan an' zee our tear;
An' turn our clouds to zunsheen。
An' many times when I do vind
Things all goo wrong; an' v'ok unkind;
To zee the happy veeden herds;
An' hear the zingen o' the birds;
Do soothe my sorrow mwore than words;
Vor I do zee that 'tis our sin
Do meake woone's soul so dark 'ithin;
When God would gi'e woone zunsheen。
William Barnes '1801…1886'
〃WHEN SPRING COMES BACK TO ENGLAND〃
When Spring comes back to England
And crowns her brows with May;
Round the merry moonlit world
She goes the greenwood way:
She throws a rose to Italy;
A fleur…de…lys to France;
But round her regal morris…ring
The seas of England dance。
When Spring comes back to England
And dons her robe of green;
There's many a nation garlanded
But England is the Queen;
She's Queen; she's Queen of all the world
Beneath the laughing sky;
For the nations go a…Maying
When they hear the New Year cry …
〃Come over the water to England;
My old love; my new love;
Come over the water to England;
In showers of flowery rain;
Come over the water to England;
April; my true love;
And tell the heart of England
The Spring is here again!〃
Alfred Noyes '1880…
NEW LIFE
Spring comes laughing down the valley
All in white; from the snow
Where the winter's armies rally
Loth to go。
Beauty white her garments shower
On the world where they pass; …
Hawthorn hedges; trees in flower;
Daisies in the grass。
Tremulous with longings dim;
Thickets by the river's rim
Have begun to dream of green。
Every tree is loud with birds。
Bourgeon; heart; … do thy part!
Raise a slender stalk of words
From a root unseen。
Amelia Josephine Burr '1878…
〃OVER THE WINTRY THRESHOLD〃
Over the wintry threshold
Who comes with joy today;
So frail; yet so enduring;
To triumph o'er dismay?
Ah; quick her tears are springing;
And quickly they are dried;
For sorrow walks before her;
But gladness walks beside。
She comes with gusts of laughter; …
The music as of rills;
With tenderness and sweetness;
The wisdom of the hills。
Her hands are strong to comfort;
Her heart is quick to heed;
She knows the signs of sadness;
She knows the voice of need;
There is no living creature;
However poor or small;
But she will know its trouble;
And hearken to its call。
Oh; well they fare forever;
By mighty dreams possessed;
Whose hearts have lain a moment
On that eternal breast。
Bliss Carman '1861…1929'
MARCH
Slayer of winter; art thou here again?
O welcome; thou that bring'st the summer nigh!
The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain;
Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky。
Welcome; O March! whose kindly days and dry
Make April ready for the throstle's song;
Thou first redresser of the winter's wrong!
Yea; welcome; March! and though I die ere June;
Yet for the hope of life I give thee praise;
Striving to swell the burden of the tune
That even now I hear thy brown birds raise;
Unmindful of the past or coming days;
Who sing; 〃O joy! a new year is begun!
What happiness to look upon the sun!〃
O; what begetteth all this storm of bliss;
But Death himself; who; crying solemnly;
Even from the heart of sweet Forgetfulness;
Bids us; 〃Rejoice! lest pleasureless ye die。
Within a little time must ye go by。
Stretch forth your open hands; and; while ye live;
Take all the gifts that Death and Life may give。〃
William Morris '1834…1896'
SONG IN MARCH
Now are the winds about us in their glee;
Tossing the slender tree;
Whirling the sands about his furious car;
March cometh from afar;
Breaks the sealed magic of old Winter's dreams;
And rends his glassy streams;
Chafing with potent airs; he fiercely takes
Their fetters from the lakes;
And; with a power by queenly Spring supplied;
Wakens the slumbering tide。
With a wild love he seeks young Summer's charms
And clasps her to his arms;
Lifting his shield between; he drives away
Old Winter from his prey; …
The ancient tyrant whom he boldly braves;
Goes howling to his caves;
And; to his northern realm compelled to fly;
Yields up the victory;
Melted are all his bands; o'erthrown his towers;
And March comes bringing flowers。
William Gilmore Simms '1806…1870'
MARCH
Blossom on the plum;
Wild wind and merry;
Leaves upon the cherry;
And one swallow come。
Red windy dawn;
Swift rain and sunny;
Wild bees seeking honey;
Crocus on the lawn;
Blossom on the plum。
Grass begins to grow;
Dandelions come;
Snowdrops haste to go
After last month's snow;
Rough winds beat and blow;
Blossom on the plum。
Nora Hopper '1871…1906'
WRITTEN IN MARCH
The Cock is crowing;
The stream is flowing;
The small birds twitter;
The lake doth glitter;
The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the strongest;
The cattle are grazing;
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!
Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated;
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The ploughboy is whooping … anon … anon
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing;
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone!
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
THE PASSING OF MARCH
The braggart March stood in the season's door
With his broad shoulders blocking up the way;
Shaking the snow…flakes from the cloak he wore;
And from the fringes of his kirtle gray。
Near by him April stood with tearful face;
With violets in her hands; and in her hair
Pale; wild anemones; the fragrant lace
Half…parted from her breast; which seemed like fair;
Dawn…tinted mountain snow; smooth…drifted there。
She on the blusterer's arm laid one white hand;
But he would none of her soft blandishment;
Yet did she plead with tears none might withstand;
For even the fiercest hearts at last relent。
And he; at last; in ruffian tenderness;
With one swift; crushing kiss her lips did greet。
Ah; poor starved heart! … for that one rude caress;
She cast her violets underneath his feet。
Robert Burns Wilson '1850…1916'
HOME THOUGHTS; FROM ABROAD
Oh; to be in England
Now that April's there;
And whoever wakes in England
Sees; some morning; unaware;
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm…tree bole are in tiny leaf;
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England … now!
And after April; when May follows
And the white…throat builds; and all the swallows!
Hark; where my blossomed pear…tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops … at the bent spray's edge …
That's the wise thrush: he sings each song twice over;
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew;
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups; the little children's dower
… Far brighter than this gaudy melon…flower!
Robert Browning '1812…1889'
SONG
April; April;
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then; the moment after;
Weep thy girlish tears!
April; that mine ears
Like a lover greetest;
If I tell thee; sweetest;
All my hopes and fears;
April; April;
Laugh thy golden laughter;
But; the moment after;
Weep thy golden tears!
William Watson '1858…1935'
AN APRIL ADORATION
Sang the sun rise on an amber morn …
〃Earth; be glad! An April day is born。
〃Winter's done; and April's in the skies;
Earth; look up with laughter in your eyes!〃
Putting off her dumb dismay of snow;
Earth bade all her unseen children grow。
Then the sound of growing in the air
Rose to God a liturgy of prayer;
And the thronged succession of the days
Uttered up to God a psalm of praise。
Laughed the runnin
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