Poetry
Eleanor farjeon -----London What is Poetry? Who knows?-----谁能告诉我,什么是诗?
Not a rose, but the scent of the rose;-----它不是玫瑰,却有玫瑰般的芬芳;
Not the sky, but the light in the sky;-----它不是蓝天,却似蓝天一样明亮;
Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly;-----它不是萤火虫,却在黑暗中发光;
Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;-----它不是大海,却似大海万顷波涛,激起轰响;
Not myself, but what makes me-----它不是我,却使我
See, hear,and feel something that prose----看到,听到,感受到,
一种奇妙的东西,
一种散文难以描绘的意境。
Cannot: and what is it, who knows? -----谁能告诉我,什么是诗?
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
假如我能弥合一个破碎的心灵
Emily Dickinson ------American If I can stop one heart from breaking,-----假如我
能弥合一个破碎的心灵
I shall not live in vain;------我就没有虚度此生;
If I can ease one life the aching,-----假如我
能使一个饱受折磨的人的痛苦得到减轻,
Or help one fainting robin ------或者帮助一只小鸟,一只垂危的知更,
Unto his nest again,------重新回到它的鸟巢,去见它的双亲,
I shall not live in vain,-----我就没有虚度此生。
Dreams
梦想
Hold fast to dream----千万不能丢掉梦想,
For it dreams die-----因为假如梦想破灭
Life is a breaken-winged bird-----生活就像小鸟断了翅膀,That cannot fly.-----再也不能展翅飞翔。
Hold fast to dreams -----千万不能丢掉梦想,
For when dreams go-----因为梦想一旦离去
Life is a barren field-----生活就像冬天的田野那样荒凉,
Frozen with snow.-----冰封大地白雪茫茫。
Do You Fear the Wind
你怕风吗?
Langston Hughes
Hamilton Garland
-----U.S.A Do you fear the force of the wind-----你怕风吹
The slash of the rain?-----雨打吗?
Go face them and fight them,-----那你就勇敢地迎上去与它拼搏,
Be savage again.------重新过野蛮人的生活吧!
Go hungry and cold like the wolf,-----像狼那样挨饿受冻,
Go wade like the crane:------像鹤那样涉水过河;
The palms of your hands will thicken,-----你的手掌会变粗,
The skin of your cheeks will tan,-----你的面颊会晒红,
You’ll grow ragged and wearyvand swarthy,-----你的衣裳会褴褛,
浑身黝黑
疲惫不堪,
But you’ll walk like a man !------但那时你走起路来
就会像一个顶天立地的真正男子汉!
A Nation’s Strength
国力
Ralph Waldo Emerson ----Boston Not gold, but only man can make-----什么才能使一个民族伟大强盛?
不是金子,
而只有人;
A People great and strong;-----只有那些英雄,
Men who, for truth and honor’s sake,-----他们是为了真理,为了民族的光荣,
Stand fast and suffer long.-----坚定不移,不惜牺牲
Brave men who work while other sleep,------在懒汉们酣睡的时候,
勇敢地人们却在忘我劳动。
。
Who dare while others fly—------当懦夫们望风而逃,
我们的英雄却在冲锋陷阵
They build a nation’s pillars deep------是他们建立了支撑祖国大厦的柱石,
And lift them to the sky.-------使它们拔地而起,高耸入云。
The Long Voyage
远航
Malcolm Cowley ----Pennsylvania Not that the pines were darker there,------不是因为里的松柏更加郁郁葱葱,
Nor mid-May dogwood brighter there,------不是因为那里的五月鲜花更加灿烂似锦,
Nor swifts more swift in summer air;-----不是因为那里夏空中的雨燕更加穿梭如风。
It was my own country,------那里有春天的雷鸣,
Having its thunderclap of spring,-----有漫长的仲夏万物峥嵘,
It’s long midsummer ripening,-----有秋收季节
Its corn hoar-stiff at harvesting,------玉米似金
Almost like any country,------这和其他国家几乎相同。
Yet being mine; its face ,its speech,-----然而,这一切都是我的,她的容貌,她的声音,
Its hills bent low within my reach,-----她弯腰向我靠近的山岭,
Its river birch and upland beech------她河边的白桦,高地的山毛榉,
Were mine, of my own country,-----统统属于我,属于我的祖国,亲爱的母亲。
Now the dark waters at the bow-----像铁犁翻起故乡的土壤,
Fold back, like earth against the plow;------此刻我的船首乘风破浪,
Foam brightens like the dogwood now-----卷起千堆白雪,
At home, in my own country.------宛如此时家乡山花怒放。
Silver
月光
Walter de la Mare -----London Slowly, silently, now the moon-----月儿穿着银绣鞋,
Walks the night in her silver shoon;------ 悄悄漫步在秋夜;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees;------抬起秀眼四下看,
Silver fruit upon silver trees;-----窥见银树银枝间,挂满银果银闪闪;
One by one casements catch-----银色茅屋屋檐下,
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;------窗窗得月银光泻;
Couched in the kennel, like the dog;----小狗甜睡清辉里,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;-----银腿蜷曲独窗边;
From the shadowy cote the white breasts peep-----黑影幢幢鸽舍黑,
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;----熟睡白鸽银胸现;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,-----何处田鼠匆匆过,
With silver claws and a silver eye----银爪银尾银小眼,
And moveless fish in the water gleam,-----村边银色清溪畔,洁白芦苇水草间,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.------鱼儿痴情已忘游,单见银鳞水下闪。
Pippa’s Song
琵帕的歌
Robert Browning -----England The year’s at the spring,------一年四季正逢春,
And day’s at the morn;------红日初升恰是晨;
Morning’s at seven;------时间正好七点钟,
he hillside’s dew-pearled,------满山绿草露珠滚;
The lark’s on the wing;------云端云雀双翅振,
The snail’s on the thorn;------蜗牛伏在荆棘上;
God’s in His Heaven—------上帝端坐在天空—
All’s right with the world.------世上万物得其所。
—From Pippa Passes
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