今天分享一首我极爱的,会背诵的英文诗,作者是英国的华兹华斯。第一次知道这首诗,是在郁达夫的小说《沉沦》里见到,读后觉得韵律流畅,画面生动,尤其喜爱 “Stop here, or gently pass!”这一句。
诗作如下:
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain
And sings a melancholy strain;
Oh listen! For the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travelers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands;
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay.
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
What’er the theme, the maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o’er the sickle bending;
I listened, motionless and still;
And , as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
中文译文,卞之琳版本:
看她,在田里独自一个,
那个苏格兰高原的少女!
独自在收割,独自在唱歌;
停住吧,或者悄悄走过去!
她独自割麦,又把它捆好,
唱着一只忧郁的曲调;
听啊!整个深邃的谷地
都有这一片歌声在洋溢。
从没有夜莺能够唱出
更美的音调来欢迎结队商,
疲倦了,到一个荫凉的去处
就在阿拉伯沙漠的中央:
杜鹃鸟在奏叫得多动人,
也没有这样子荡人心魂,
尽管它惊破了远海的静悄,
响彻了赫伯里底群岛。
她唱的是什么,可有谁说得清?
哀怨的曲调里也许在流传
古老,不幸,悠久的事情,
还有长远以前的征战;
或者她唱的并不特殊,
只是今日的家常事故?
那些天然的丧忧、哀痛,
有过的,以后还会有的种种?
不管她唱的是什么题目,
她的歌好象会没完没了;
我看见她边唱边干活,
弯着腰,挥动她的镰刀——
我一动也不动,听了许久;
后来,当我上山的时候,
我把歌声还记在心上,
虽然早已听不见声响。
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