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作者:僻处自说      更新:2021-02-21 12:01      字数:9322
  ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS
  ANTHOLOGY OF
  MASSACHUSETTS
  POETS
  WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE; Editor
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  AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
  O   BEAUTIFUL   for   spacious   skies;   For   amber   waves   of   grain;   For
  purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America!               America!
  God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood 》From
  sea to shining sea!
  O    beautiful   for  pilgrim   feet;  Those    stern;  impassioned     stress  A
  thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America!             America!
  God mend thine every flaw; Confirm thy soul in self…control; Thy liberty
  in law!
  O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife Who more than self
  their country loved; And mercy more than life! America!             America! May
  God thy gold refine; Till all success be nobleness; And every gain divine。
  O    beautiful   for  patriot  dream   That   sees   beyond    the  years  Thine
  alabaster cities gleam
  Undimmed   by  human   tears! America! America!   God   shed   His   grace
  on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood 》From sea to shining sea!
  KATHERINE LEE BATES
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  YELLOW CLOVER
  MUST  I;   who   walk   alone;   come   on   it   still; This   Puck   of   plants   The
  wise   would   do   away   with;   The   sunshine   slants   To   play   with;   Our   wee;
  gold…dusty   flower;   the   yellow   clover;   Which   once   in   Parting   for   a   time
  That then seemed long; Ere time for you was over; We sealed our own? Do
  you   remember   yet;   O   Soul   beyond   the   stars;   Beyond   the   uttermost   dim
  bars   Of   space;   Dear   Soul;   who   found   earth   sweet;   Remember   by   love's
  grace; In dreamy hushes of the heavenly song; How suddenly we halted in
  our    climb;   Lingering;     reluctant;   up   that  farthest   hill;  Stooped    for   the
  blossoms closest to our feet; And gave them as a token Each to Each; In
  lieu   of   speech;   In   lieu   of   words   too   grievous   to   be   spoken; Those   little;
  gypsy; wondering blossoms wet With a strange dew of tears?
  So    it  began;   This    vagabond;     unvalued     yellow     clover;   To   be   our
  tenderest language。 All the years It lent a new zest to the summer hours;
  As   each   of   us   went   scheming   to   surprise   The   other   with   our   homely;
  laureate flowers。 Sonnets and odes Fringing our daily roads。 Can amaranth
  and asphodel Bring merrier laughter to your eyes? Oh; if the Blest; in their
  serene   abodes;   Keep   any   wistful   consciousness   of   earth;   Not   grandeurs;
  but   the   childish   ways   of   love;   Simplicities   of   mirth;   Must   follow   them
  above   With   touches   of   vague   homesickness   that   pass   Like   shadows   of
  swift birds across the grass。 Beneath some foreign arch of sky; How many
  a time the rover You or I; For life oft sundered look from look; And voice
  from voice; the transient dearth Schooling my soul to brook This distance
  that no messages may span; Would chance Upon our wilding by a lonely
  well; Or drowsy watermill; Or swaying to the chime of convent bell; Or
  where   the   nightingales   of   old   romance   With   tragical   contraltos   fill   Dim
  solitudes of infinite desire; And once I joyed to meet Our peasant gadabout
  A trespasser on trim; seigniorial seat; Twinkling a saucy eye As potentates
  paced by。
  Our golden cord! our soft; pursuing flame 》From friendship's altar fire!
  How proudly we would pluck and tame
  The   dimpling   clusters;   mutinously   gay!   How   swiftly   they   were   sent
  Far; far away On journeys wide; By sea and continent; Green miles   and
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  blue   leagues   over;   》From   each   of   us   to   each;   That   so   our   hearts   might
  reach; And touch within the yellow clover;
  Love's letter to be glad about Like sunshine when it came!
  My sorrow asks no healing; it is love; Let love then make me brave To
  bear   the   keen   hurts   of   This   careless   summertide;   Ay;   of   our   own   poor
  flower; Changed   with our  fatal hour; For  all   its sunshine  vanished   when
  you died; Only white clover blossoms on your grave。
  KATHERINE LEE BATES
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  THE RETURNING
  We   long   for   her;   we   yearn   for   her Yes;   ardently   we   yearn   For   her
  return。 Recalling those beloved days (Days intimate with ways Of friends
  so near to us And life so dear to us); We yearn unspeakably for her return。
  And come she must。 。 。Yet while we trust We soon may see the passing
  of this agony Which makes intrusive years still seem A fearsome dream;
  We know that when she comes She really comes not back again。
  She'll   come   in   other guise And   under   fairer   skies And   yet   to   bitter
  pain! That day she went away Our homes with laughing youth were filled。
  Where then was happiness Is now distress; The laughter stilled; For when
  she left Youth followed her… We stay bereft。
  So all our golden joy For what she brings Must carry gray alloy: The
  sorrow that she can not lay; The mysery that she can not stay… While all
  the   gladsome   songs   she   sings   Must   bear   for   undertones   Old   sighs   and
  echoed moans。
  As they who go away In flush of youth May come quite worn and gray
  And bringing naught but ruth… So; when the strife shall cease; And when
  she comes at last; When all the armies vast Shall at her feet Kneel down to
  greet Thrice welcome Peace; This world will be so changed (So many dear
  ones dead; So many friends estranged; So many blessings fled; So many
  wonted ways forever barred; So many coming days forever marred) That
  then She truly comes not back again She; the Peace we knew。
  Yet how we long for her! How ardently we yearn For her return!
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  SYLVESTER BAXTER
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  TWO MOODS FROM THE HILL
  I。
  YOUTH
  I LOVE to watch the world from here; for all The numberless living
  portraits that are drawn Upon the mind。          Far over is the sea; Fronting the
  sand;   a   few   great   yellow   dunes; A  salt   marsh   stumbling   after;   rank   and
  green; With brackish gullies wandering in between; All this from the hill。
  And   more:   a   clump   of   dwarfed   and   twisted   cedars;   Sentinels   over   the
  marsh; and bright with the sun A field of daises wandering in the wind As
  though   a   hidden   serpent   glided   through;   A   broken   wall;   a   new…plowed
  field; and then The dusty road and the abodes of men Surrounding the hill。
  How small the enclosure is wherein there lives Each phase and passion of
  life; the distant sail Dips in the limpid bosom of the sea; 》From that far
  place to where in state the turf Raises a throne for me upon the hill; Each
  little love and lust of a living thing Can thus be compassed in a rainbow
  ring And seen from the hill。
  II。
  AGE
  Why did I build my cottage on a hill Facing the sea?
  Why   did   I   plan   each   terraced   lawn   to   slope   Down   to   the   deep   blue
  billowy    breast   of  hope;   Surging   and   sweeping;    laughing    and   leaping;
  Tumbling   its   garments   of   foam   upon   the   shore;   Rustling   the   sands   that
  know my step no more; I should have found a valley; deep and still; To
  shelter me。
  There flows the river; and it seems asleep So far away; Yet I remember
  whip of wave and roar Of wind that rose and smote against the oar; Smote
  and   retreated;   Proud   but   defeated;   While   I   rejoiced   and   rowed   into   the
  brine; Drawing on wet and heavy …straining line The great cod quivering
  from the deep As counterplay。
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  What is the solace of these hills and vales That rise and fall? What is
  ther