第 60 节
作者:乐乐陶陶      更新:2021-02-20 05:16      字数:9322
  When thy fair tree; fully grown;
  Shall bourgeon; and grow splendid
  With blossoms of its own;
  And the fruit begins to gather;
  But the buttercups are mown。
  If I should see thy autumn;
  'Twill not be close at hand;
  But with a spirit vision;
  From some far…distant land。
  Or; perhaps; I hence may see thee
  Amongst the angels stand。
  I know not what of fortune
  The future holds for thee;
  Nor if skies fair or clouded
  Wait thee in days to be;
  But neither joy nor sorrow
  Shall sever thee from me。
  Dear child; whatever changes
  Across our lives may pass;
  I shall see thee still for ever;
  Clearly as in a glass;
  The same sweet child of fancy;
  The same dear winsome lass。
  Lewis Morris '1833…1907'
  DAISY
  Where the thistle lifts a purple crown
  Six foot out of the turf;
  And the harebell shakes on the windy hill …
  O the breath of the distant surf! …
  The hills look over on the South;
  And southward dreams the sea;
  And with the sea…breeze hand in hand
  Came innocence and she。
  Where 'mid the gorse the raspberry
  Red for the gatherer springs;
  Two children did we stray and talk
  Wise; idle; childish things。
  She listened with big…lipped surprise;
  Breast…deep 'mid flower and spine:
  Her skin was like a grape; whose veins
  Run snow instead of wine。
  She knew not those sweet words she spake;
  Nor knew her own sweet way;
  But there's never a bird; so sweet a song
  Thronged in whose throat that day!
  Oh; there were flowers in Storrington
  On the turf and on the spray;
  But the sweetest flower on Sussex hills
  Was the Daisy…flower that day!
  Her beauty smoothed earth's furrowed face!
  She gave me tokens three: …
  A look; a word of her winsome mouth;
  And a wild raspberry。
  A berry red; a guileless look;
  A still word; … strings of sand!
  And yet they made my wild; wild heart
  Fly down to her little hand。
  For standing artless as the air;
  And candid as the skies;
  She took the berries with her hand;
  And the love with her sweet eyes。
  The fairest things have fleetest end:
  Their scent survives their close;
  But the rose's scent is bitterness
  To him that loved the rose!
  She looked a little wistfully;
  Then went her sunshine way: …
  The sea's eye had a mist on it;
  And the leaves fell from the day。
  She went her unremembering way;
  She went and left in me
  The pang of all the partings gone;
  And partings yet to be。
  She left me marveling why my soul
  Was sad that she was glad;
  At all the sadness in the sweet;
  The sweetness in the sad。
  Still; still I seemed to see her; still
  Look up with soft replies;
  And take the berries with her hand;
  And the love with her lovely eyes。
  Nothing begins; and nothing ends;
  That is not paid with moan;
  For we are born in others' pain;
  And perish in our own。
  Francis Thompson '1859?…1907'
  TO PETRONILLA WHO HAS PUT UP HER HAIR
  Yesterday it blew alway;
  Yesterday is dead;
  Now forever must it stay
  Coiled about your head;
  Tell me Whence the great Command
  Hitherward has sped。
  〃Silly boy; as if I knew;〃
  Petronilla said。
  Nay; but I am very sure;
  Since you left my side;
  Something has befallen you;
  You are fain to hide;
  Homage has been done to you;
  Innocents have died。
  〃Silly boy; and what of that?〃
  Petronilla cried。
  Petronilla; much I fear
  Scarcely have you wept
  All those merry yesterdays;
  Slaughtered whilst you slept;
  Slain to bind that pretty crown
  Closer round your head。
  〃Silly boy; as if I cared;〃
  Petronilla said。
  Henry Howarth Bashford '1880…
  THE GYPSY GIRL
  Passing I saw her as she stood beside
  A lonely stream between two barren wolds;
  Her loose vest hung in rudely gathered folds
  On her swart bosom; which in maiden pride
  Pillowed a string of pearls; among her hair
  Twined the light bluebell and the stone…crop gay;
  And not far thence the small encampment lay;
  Curling its wreathed smoke into the air。
  She seemed a child of some sun…favored clime;
  So still; so habited to warmth and rest;
  And in my wayward musings on past time;
  When my thought fills with treasured memories;
  That image nearest borders on the blest
  Creations of pure art that never dies。
  Henry Alford '1810…1871'
  FANNY
  A Southern Blossom
  Come and see her as she stands;
  Crimson roses in her hands;
  And her eyes
  Are as dark as Southern night;
  Yet than Southern dawn more bright;
  And a soft; alluring light
  In them lies。
  None deny if she beseech
  With that pretty; liquid speech
  Of the South。
  All her consonants are slurred;
  And the vowels are preferred;
  There's a poem in each word
  From that mouth。
  Even Cupid is her slave;
  Of her arrows; half he gave
  Her one day
  In a merry; playful hour。
  Dowered with these and beauty's dower;
  Strong indeed her magic power;
  So they say。
  Venus; not to be outdone
  By her generous little son;
  Shaped the mouth
  Very like to Cupid's bow。
  Lack…a…day!  Our North can show
  No such lovely flowers as grow
  In the South!
  Anne Reeve Aldrich '1866…1892'
  SOMEBODY'S CHILD
  Just a picture of Somebody's child; …
  Sweet face set in golden hair;
  Violet eyes; and cheeks of rose;
  Rounded chin; with a dimple there;
  Tender eyes where the shadows sleep;
  Lit from within by a secret ray; …
  Tender eyes that will shine like stars
  When love and womanhood come this way:
  Scarlet lips with a story to tell; …
  Blessed be he who shall find it out;
  Who shall learn the eyes' deep secret well;
  And read the heart with never a doubt。
  Then you will tremble; scarlet lips;
  Then you will crimson; loveliest cheeks:
  Eyes will brighten and blushes will burn
  When the one true lover bends and speaks。
  But she's only a child now; as you see;
  Only a child in her careless grace:
  When Love and Womanhood come this way
  Will anything sadden the flower…like face?
  Louise Chandler Moulton '1835…1908'
  EMILIA
  Halfway up the Hemlock valley turnpike;
  In the bend of Silver Water's arm;
  Where the deer come trooping down at even;
  Drink the cowslip pool; and fear no harm;
  Dwells Emilia;
  Flower of the fields of Camlet Farm。
  Sitting sewing by the western window
  As the too brief mountain sunshine flies;
  Hast thou seen a slender…shouldered figure
  With a chestnut braid; Minerva…wise;
  Round her temples;
  Shadowing her gray; enchanted eyes?
  When the freshets flood the Silver Water;
  When the swallow flying northward braves
  Sleeting rains that sweep the birchen foothills
  Where the windflowers' pale plantation waves …
  (Fairy gardens
  Springing from the dead leaves in their graves); …
  Falls forgotten; then; Emilia's needle;
  Ancient ballads; fleeting through her brain;
  Sing the cuckoo and the English primrose;
  Outdoors calling with a quaint refrain;
  And a rainbow
  Seems to brighten through the gusty rain。
  Forth she goes; in some old dress and faded;
  Fearless of the showery shifting wind;
  Kilted are her skirts to clear the mosses;
  And her bright braids in a 'kerchief pinned;
  Younger sister
  Of the damsel…errant Rosalind。
  While she helps to serve the harvest supper
  In the lantern…lighted village hall;
  Moonlight rises on the burning woodland;
  Echoes dwindle from the distant Fall。
  Hark; Emilia!
  In her ear the airy voices call。
  Hidden papers in the dusty garret;
  Where her few and secret poems lie; …
  Thither flies her heart to join her treasure;
  While she serves; with absent…musing eye;
  Mighty tankards
  Foaming cider in the glasses high。
  〃Would she mingle with her young companions!〃
  Vainly do her aunts and uncles say;
  Ever; from the village sports and dances;
  Early missed; Emilia slips away。
  Whither vanished?
  With what unimagined mates to play?
  Did they seek her; wandering by the water;
  They should find her comrades shy and strange:
  Queens and princesses; and saints and fairies;
  Dimly moving in a cloud of change: …
  Desdemona;
  Mariana of the Moated Grange。
  Up this valley to the fair and market
  When young farmers from the southward ride;
  Oft they linger at a sound of chanting
  In the meadows by the turnpike side;
  Long they listen;
  Deep in fancies of a fairy bride。
  Sarah N。 Cleghorn '1876…
  TO A GREEK GIRL
  With breath of thyme and bees that hum;
  Across the years you seem to come; …
  Across the years with nymph…like head;
  And wind…blown brows unfilleted;
  A girlish shape that slips the bud
  In lines of unspoiled symmetry;
  A girlish shape that stirs the blood
  With pulse of Spring; Autonoe!
  Where'er you pass; … where'er you go;
  I hear the pebbly rillet flow;
  Where'er you go; … where'er you pass;
  There comes a gladness on the grass;
  You bring blithe airs where'er you tread; …
  Blithe airs that blow from down and s