第 33 节
作者:悟来悟去      更新:2021-02-20 15:46      字数:9322
  That my room it is gloomy
  And narrow my bed;
  For man never slept
  In a different bed
  And; to _sleep_; you must slumber
  In just such a bed。
  My tantalized spirit
  Here blandly reposes;
  Forgetting; or never
  Regretting its roses
  Its old agitations
  Of myrtles and roses:
  For now; while so quietly
  Lying; it fancies
  A holier odor
  About it; of pansies
  A rosemary odor;
  Commingled with pansies
  With rue and the beautiful
  Puritan pansies。
  And so it lies happily;
  Bathing in many
  A dream of the truth
  And the beauty of Annie
  Drowned in a bath
  Of the tresses of Annie。
  She tenderly kissed me;
  She fondly caressed;
  And then I fell gently
  To sleep on her breast
  Deeply to sleep
  From the heaven of her breast。
  When the light was extinguished;
  She covered me warm;
  And she prayed to the angels
  To keep me from harm
  To the queen of the angels
  To shield me from harm。
  And I lie so composedly;
  Now in my bed;
  (Knowing her love)
  That you fancy me dead
  And I rest so contentedly;
  Now in my bed;
  (With her love at my breast)
  That you fancy me dead
  That you shudder to look at me;
  Thinking me dead:
  But my heart it is brighter
  Than all of the many
  Stars in the sky;
  For it sparkles with Annie
  It glows with the light
  Of the love of my Annie
  With the thought of the light
  Of the eyes of my Annie。
  1849。
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  TO F。
  BELOVED ! amid the earnest woes
  That crowd around my earthly path
  (Drear path; alas! where grows
  Not even one lonely rose)
  My soul at least a solace hath
  In dreams of thee; and therein knows
  An Eden of bland repose。
  And thus thy memory is to me
  Like some enchanted far…off isle
  In some tumultuos sea
  Some ocean throbbing far and free
  With storms  but where meanwhile
  Serenest skies continually
  Just o're that one bright island smile。
  1845。
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  TO FRANCES S。 OSGOOD
  THOU wouldst be loved? … then let thy heart
  From its present pathway part not!
  Being everything which now thou art;
  Be nothing which thou art not。
  So with the world thy gentle ways;
  Thy grace; thy more than beauty;
  Shall be an endless theme of praise;
  And love … a simple duty。
  1845。
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  ELDORADO。
  Gaily bedight;
  A gallant knight;
  In sunshine and in shadow;
  Had journeyed long;
  Singing a song;
  In search of Eldorado。
  But he grew old …
  This knight so bold …
  And o'er his heart a shadow
  Fell; as he found
  No spot of ground
  That looked like Eldorado。
  And; as his strength
  Failed him at length;
  He met a pilgrim shadow …
  'Shadow;' said he;
  'Where can it be …
  This land of Eldorado?'
  'Over the Mountains
  Of the Moon;
  Down the Valley of the Shadow;
  Ride; boldly ride;'
  The shade replied; …
  'If you seek for Eldorado!'
  1849。
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  EULALIE
  I  DWELT alone
  In a world of moan;
  And my soul was a stagnant tide;
  Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride …
  Till the yellow…haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride。
  Ah; less … less bright
  The stars of the night
  Than the eyes of the radiant girl!
  And never a flake
  That the vapour can make
  With the moon…tints of purple and pearl;
  Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl …
  Can compare with the bright…eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl。
  Now Doubt … now Pain
  Come never again;
  For her soul gives me sigh for sigh;
  And all day long
  Shines; bright and strong;
  Astart?within the sky;
  While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye …
  While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye。
  1845。
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  A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
  Take this kiss upon the brow!
  And; in parting from you now;
  Thus much let me avow
  You are not wrong; who deem
  That my days have been a dream;
  Yet if hope has flown away
  In a night; or in a day;
  In a vision; or in none;
  Is it therefore the less _gone_?
  _All_ that we see or seem
  Is but a dream within a dream。
  I stand amid the roar
  Of a surf…tormented shore;
  And I hold within my hand
  Grains of the golden sand
  How few! yet how they creep
  Through my fingers to the deep;
  While I weep  while I weep!
  O God! can I not grasp
  Them with a tighter clasp?
  O God! can I not save
  _One_ from the pitiless wave?
  Is _all_ that we see or seem
  But a dream within a dream?。
  1849
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  TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
  Of all who hail thy presence as the morning
  Of all to whom thine absence is the night
  The blotting utterly from out high heaven
  The sacred sun  of all who; weeping; bless thee
  Hourly for hope… for life  ah! above all;
  For the resurrection of deep…buried faith
  In Truth  in Virtue  in Humanity
  Of all who; on Despair's unhallowed bed
  Lying down to die; have suddenly arisen
  At thy soft…murmured words; 〃Let there be light!〃
  At the soft…murmured words that were fulfilled
  In the seraphic glancing of thine eyes
  Of all who owe thee most  whose gratitude
  Nearest resembles worship  oh; remember
  The truest  the most fervently devoted;
  And think that these weak lines are written by him
  By him who; as he pens them; thrills to think
  His spirit is communing with an angel's。
  1847。
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  TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
  NOT long ago; the writer of these lines;
  In the mad pride of intellectuality;
  Maintained 〃the power of words〃denied that ever
  A thought arose within the human brain
  Beyond the utterance of the human tongue:
  And now; as if in mockery of that boast;
  Two words…two foreign soft dissyllables
  Italian tones; made only to be murmured
  By angels dreaming in the moonlit 〃dew
  That hangs like chains of pearl on Hermon hill;〃
  Have stirred from out the abysses of his heart;
  Unthought…like thoughts that are the souls of thought;
  Richer; far wider; far diviner visions
  Than even the seraph harper; Israfel;
  (Who has 〃the sweetest voice of all God's creatures〃)
  Could hope to utter。 And I! my spells are broken。
  The pen falls powerless from my shivering hand。
  With thy dear name as text; though bidden by thee;
  I can not write…I can not speak or think
  Alas; I can not feel; for 'tis not feeling;
  This standing motionless upon the golden
  Threshold of the wide…open gate of dreams;
  Gazing; entranced; adown the gorgeous vista;
  And thrilling as I see; upon the right;
  Upon the left; and all the way along;
  Amid empurpled vapors; far away
  To where the prospect terminates…_thee only!_
  1848。
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  THE CITY IN THE SEA。
  Lo ! Death has reared himself a throne
  In a strange city lying alone
  Far down within the dim West;
  Wherethe good and the bad and the worst and the best
  Have gone to their eternal rest。
  There shrines and palaces and towers
  (Time…eaten towers that tremble not!)
  Resemble nothing that is ours。
  Around; by lifting winds forgot;
  Resignedly beneath the sky
  The melancholy waters lie。
  No rays from the holy heaven come down
  On the long night…time of that town;
  But light from out the lurid sea
  Streams up the turrets silently …
  Gleams up the pinnacles far and free …
  Up domes … up spires … up kingly halls …
  Up fanes … up Babylon…like walls …
  Up shadowy long…forgotten bowers
  Of scultured ivy and stone flowers …
  Up many and many a marvellous shrine
  Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
  The viol; the violet; and the vine。
  Resignedly beneath the sky
  The melancholy waters lie。
  So blend the turrets and shadows there
  That all seem pendulous in air;
  While from a proud tower in the town
  Death looks gigantically down。
  There open fanes and gaping graves
  Yawn level with the luminous waves ;
  But not the riches there that lie
  In each idol's diamond eye …
  Not the gaily…jewelled dead
  Tempt the waters from their bed ;
  For no ripples curl; alas!
  Along that wilderness of glass …
  No swellings tell that winds may be
  Upon some far…off happier sea …
  No heavings hint that winds have been
  On seas less hideously serene。
  But lo; a stir is in the air!
  The wave … there is a movement there!
  As if the towers had thrown aside;
  In slightly sinking; the dull tide …
  As if their tops had feebly given
  A void within the filmy Heaven。
  The waves have now a redder glow …
  The hours are breathing faint and low …
  And when; amid no earthly moans;
  Down; down that town shall settle hence;
  Hell; rising from a thousand thrones;
  Shall do it reverence。
  1845。
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  THE SLEEPER。
  At midnight in the month of June;
  I stand beneath the mystic moon。
  An opiate vapour; dewy; dim;
  Exhales from out her golden rim;
  And; softly dripping; drop by drop;
  Upon the quiet mountain top。
  Steals drowsily and musically
  Into the univeral valley。
  The rosemary nods upon the grave;
  The lily lolls upon the wave;
  Wrappin