When
You Are Old
When you are old and grey and full of
sleep,
當你年老，灰白，睡意正濃，
And nodding by the fire, take down this
book,
在火爐邊打盹，取下這本書，
And slowly read, and dream of the soft
look
慢慢閱讀，夢見你眼中一度
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows
deep;
發出之柔光，以及深深暗影；
How many loved your moments of glad
grace,
多少人愛你愉悅丰采的時光，
And loved your beauty with love false or
true,
愛你的美，以或真或假之情，
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in
you,
祇一個人愛你朝聖者的心靈，
And loved the sorrows of your changing
face;
愛你變化的容顏蘊藏的憂傷；
And bending down beside the glowing
bars,
並且俯身紅光閃閃的欄柵邊，
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love
fled
帶點哀傷，喃喃低語，愛怎樣
And paced upon the mountains
overhead
逃逸，逡巡於頭頂的高山上
And hid his face amid a crowd of
stars.
且將他的臉隱匿於群星之間。
葉慈Yeats 介紹：
威廉•巴特•葉慈（William Bulter
Yeats，1865-1939）
是一九二三年的諾貝爾文學獎得主，也被公認是英詩世界中自華滋華斯以來最傑出的詩人，同時也是一位優秀的劇作家。他的一生關注藝術、愛爾蘭國家主義以及對神祕現象的探索。
十七歲開始寫詩，早期作品愁思、神祕並充滿前拉斐爾派的意象，散發出攝人的美感。二十三歲遇見他生命中重要的女子昴德•岡昂後，即習慣用她來作為詩中一個重要象徵；葉慈一生對她的愛戀不減，但始終未得她青睞。葉慈的詩風在一九○○年代三十五歲左右有了轉變，從原先幽微的幻想氣氛逐漸轉向現實世界，並寫下不少重要詩作，形成嚴謹而壯麗的新風格。此外，葉慈為自己寫的一首有名的墓誌銘亦為上乘詩作，常為後人傳述追思。
葉慈的墓誌銘：
「
Cast a cold eye
投出冷眼
On life，on death
看生，看死
Horseman，pass
by！
騎士，向前！」
威廉·巴特勒·葉慈
William Butler Yeats
英國詩人---濟慈 (John Keats)
Ode To A
Nightingale
John Keats
My heart
aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had
drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and
Lethe-wards had
sunk
我的心痛，困頓和麻木
毒害了感官，猶如飲過毒鴆，
又似剛把鴉片吞服，
一分鐘的時間，字句在忘川中沉沒
'Tis
not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine
happiness,--
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious
plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in
full-throated
ease.
並不是在嫉妒你的幸運，
是為著你的幸運而大感快樂，
你，林間輕翅的精靈，
在山毛櫸綠影下的情結中，
放開了歌喉，歌唱夏季。
O,
for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved
earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song,
and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the
true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the
brim,
And purple-stained mouth
That I might drink, and leave the world
unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest
dim
哎，一口酒！那冷藏
在地下多年的甘醇，
味如花神、綠土、
舞蹈、戀歌和灼熱的歡樂！
哎，滿滿一杯南方的溫暖，
充滿了鮮紅的靈感之泉，
杯沿閃動著珍珠的泡沫，
和唇邊退去的紫色；
我要一飲以不見塵世，
與你循入森林幽暗的深處
Fade
far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never
known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear
each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where
youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be
full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her
lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond
to-morrow.
遠遠的離開，消失，徹底忘記
林中的你從不知道的，
疲憊、熱病和急躁
這裏，人們坐下並聽著彼此的呻吟；
癱瘓搖動了一會兒，悲傷了，最後的几絲白髮，
青春蒼白，古怪的消瘦下去，後來死亡；
鉛色的眼睛絕望著；
美人守不住明眸，
新的戀情過不完明天。
Away!
away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But
on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and
retards
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon
is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there
is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through
verdurous glooms and winding mossy
ways.
去吧！去吧！我要飛向你，
不用酒神的車輾和他的隨從，
而是乘著詩歌無形的翅膀，
儘管這混沌的頭腦早已跟隨你，
夜色溫柔，而月之女皇
正登上她的寶座，
周圍是她所有的星星仙子，
但這處那處都沒有光，
一些天光被微風吹入幽綠，
和青苔的曲徑。
I
cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the
boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the
seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree
wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets
cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose,
full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer
eves.
我看不清是哪些花在我的腳旁，
又何種軟香懸於高枝，
但在溫馨的暗處，猜測每一種甜蜜
以其時令的贈與
青草地、灌木叢、野果樹
白山楂和田園玫瑰；
葉堆中易謝的紫羅蘭；
還有五月中旬的首出，
這沾滿了如酒般的露水，即將綻開帶有麝香的玫瑰，
夏夜蠅蟲嗡嗡的盤旋其中。
Darkling
I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful
Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air
my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon
the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In
such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain--
To thy
high requiem become a
sod.
我傾聽黑夜，多少次
我幾乎愛上了逸謐的死亡，
在如此多的沉思之韻中呼喚她輕柔的名，
編織成歌，我無聲的呼吸；
現在她更加華麗的死去，
在午夜不帶悲傷的飛升，
當你正向外傾瀉靈魂
這般的迷狂！
你仍唱著，而我聽不見，
你那高昂的安魂曲對著一搓泥土。
Thou
wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee
down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by
emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through
the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien
corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the
foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Forlorn! the very word is
like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy
cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu!
thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still
stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next
valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:--Do
I wake or
sleep?
永生的鳥啊！你不為了死亡出生！
飢餓的時代無法把你蹂躪；
這逝去的夜晚里我所聽見的
在那遠古的日子也曾為帝王和小丑聽見；
可能相同的歌在露絲那顆憂愁的心中
找到了一條路徑，當她思念故鄉，
站在異邦的谷田中落淚；
這聲音常常
在遺失的仙城中震動了窗扉
望向泡沫浪花
遺失！這個字如同一聲鐘響
把我從你處帶會我單獨自我！
別了！幻想無法繼續欺騙
當她不再能夠，
別了！別了！你哀傷的聖歌
退入了後面的草地，流過溪水，
湧上山坡；而此時，它正深深
埋在下一個山谷的陰影中：
是幻覺，還是夢寐？
那歌聲去了：我醒了？我睡著？
Алан Мэйли). Изящный век, эпоха элегантности.
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