George Eliot's Poems--翰唐的后翻译时代

George Eliot's Poems

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Brother and Sister

1I cannot choose but think upon the time

2When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss

3At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,

4Because the one so near the other is.

5He was the elder and a little man

6Of forty inches, bound to show no dread,

7And I the girl that puppy-like now ran,

8Now lagged behind my brother's larger tread.

9I held him wise, and when he talked to me

10Of snakes and birds, and which God loved the best,

11I thought his knowledge marked the boundary

12Where men grew blind, though angels knew the rest.

13 If he said "Hush!" I tried to hold my breath;

14 Wherever he said "Come!" I stepped in faith.

II.

15Long years have left their writing on my brow,

16But yet the freshness and the dew-fed beam

17Of those young mornings are about me now,

18When we two wandered toward the far-off stream

19With rod and line. Our basket held a store

20Baked for us only, and I thought with joy

21That I should have my share, though he had more,

22Because he was the elder and a boy.

23The firmaments of daisies since to me

24Have had those mornings in their opening eyes,

25The bunch鑔 cowslip's pale transparency

26Carries that sunshine of sweet memories,

27 And wild-rose branches take their finest scent

28 From those blest hours of infantine content.

III.

29Our mother bade us keep the trodden ways,

30Stroked down my tippet, set my brother's frill,

31Then with the benediction of her gaze

32Clung to us lessening, and pursued us still

33Across the homestead to the rookery elms,

34Whose tall old trunks had each a grassy mound,

35So rich for us, we counted them as realms

36With varied products: here were earth-nuts found,

37And here the Lady-fingers in deep shade;

38Here sloping toward the Moat the rushes grew,

39The large to split for pith, the small to braid;

40While over all the dark rooks cawing flew,

41 And made a happy strange solemnity,

42 A deep-toned chant from life unknown to me.

IV.

43Our meadow-path had memorable spots:

44One where it bridged a tiny rivulet,

45Deep hid by tangled blue Forget-me-nots;

46And all along the waving grasses met

47My little palm, or nodded to my cheek,

48When flowers with upturned faces gazing drew

49My wonder downward, seeming all to speak

50With eyes of souls that dumbly heard and knew.

51Then came the copse, where wild things rushed unseen,

52And black-scathed grass betrayed the past abode

53Of mystic gypsies, who still lurked between

54Me and each hidden distance of the road.

55 A gypsy once had startled me at play,

56 Blotting with her dark smile my sunny day.

57Thus rambling we were schooled in deepest lore,

58And learned the meanings that give words a soul,

59The fear, the love, the primal passionate store,

60Whose shaping impulses make manhood whole.

61Those hours were seed to all my after good;

62My infant gladness, through eye, ear, and touch,

63Took easily as warmth a various food

64To nourish the sweet skill of loving much.

65For who in age shall roam the earth and find

66Reasons for loving that will strike out love

67With sudden rod from the hard year-pressed mind?

68Were reasons sown as thick as stars above,

69 'Tis love must see them, as the eye sees light:

70 Day is but Number to the darkened sight.

VI.

71Our brown canal was endless to my thought;

72And on its banks I sat in dreamy peace,

73Unknowing how the good I loved was wrought,

74Untroubled by the fear that it would cease.

75Slowly the barges floated into view

76Rounding a grassy hill to me sublime

77With some Unknown beyond it, whither flew

78The parting cuckoo toward a fresh spring time.

79The wide-arched bridge, the scented elder-flowers,

80The wondrous watery rings that died too soon,

81The echoes of the quarry, the still hours

82With white robe sweeping-on the shadeless noon,

83 Were but my growing self, are part of me,

84 My present Past, my root of piety.

VII.

85Those long days measured by my little feet

86Had chronicles which yield me many a text;

87Where irony still finds an image meet

88Of full-grown judgments in this world perplext.

89One day my brother left me in high charge,

90To mind the rod, while he went seeking bait,

91And bade me, when I saw a nearing barge,

92Snatch out the line lest he should come too late.

93Proud of the task, I watched with all my might

94For one whole minute, till my eyes grew wide,

95Till sky and earth took on a strange new light

96And seemed a dream-world floating on some tide --

97 A fair pavilioned boat for me alone

98 Bearing me onward through the vast unknown.

VIII.

99But sudden came the barge's pitch-black prow,

100Nearer and angrier came my brother's cry,

101And all my soul was quivering fear, when lo!

102Upon the imperilled line, suspended high,

103A silver perch! My guilt that won the prey,

104Now turned to merit, had a guerdon rich

105Of songs and praises, and made merry play,

106Until my triumph reached its highest pitch

107When all at home were told the wondrous feat,

108And how the little sister had fished well.

109In secret, though my fortune tasted sweet,

110I wondered why this happiness befell.

111 "The little lass had luck," the gardener said:

112 And so I learned, luck was with glory wed.

IX.

113We had the self-same world enlarged for each

114By loving difference of girl and boy:

115The fruit that hung on high beyond my reach

116He plucked for me, and oft he must employ

117A measuring gance to guide my tiny shoe

118Where lay firm stepping-stones, or call to mind

119"This thing I like my sister may not do,

120For she is little, and I must be kind."

121Thus boyish Will the nobler mastery learned

122Where inward vision over impulse reigns,

123Widening its life with separate life discerned,

124A Like unlike, a Self that self restrains.

125 His years with others must the sweeter be

126 For those brief days he spent in loving me.

127His sorrow was my sorrow, and his joy

128Sent little leaps and laughs through all my frame;

129My doll seemed lifeless and no girlish toy

130Had any reason when my brother came.

131I knelt with him at marbles, marked his fling

132Cut the ringed stem and make the apple drop,

133Or watched him winding close the spiral string

134That looped the orbits of the humming top.

135Grasped by such fellowship my vagrant thought

136Ceased with dream-fruit dream-wishes to fulfil;

137My aëry-picturing fantasy was taught

138Subjection to the harder, truer skill

139 That seeks with deeds to grave a thought-tracked line,

140 And by "What is," "What will be" to define.

XI.

141School parted us; we never found again

142That childish world where our two spirits mingled

143Like scents from varying roses that remain

144One sweetness, nor can evermore be singled.

145Yet the twin habit of that early time

146Lingered for long about the heart and tongue:

147We had been natives of one happy clime

148And its dear accent to our utterance clung.

149Till the dire years whose awful name is Change

150Had grasped our souls still yearning in divorce,

151And pitiless shaped them in two forms that range

152Two elements which sever their life's course.

153 But were another childhood-world my share,

154 I would be born a little sister there.

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I Grant you Ample Leave

1"I grant you ample leave

2To use the hoary formula 'I am'

3Naming the emptiness where thought is not;

4But fill the void with definition, 'I'

5Will be no more a datum than the words

6You link false inference with, the 'Since' & 'so'

7That, true or not, make up the atom-whirl.

8Resolve your 'Ego', it is all one web

9With vibrant ether clotted into worlds:

10Your subject, self, or self-assertive 'I'

11Turns nought but object, melts to molecules,

12Is stripped from naked Being with the rest

13Of those rag-garments named the Universe.

14Or if, in strife to keep your 'Ego' strong

15You make it weaver of the etherial light,

16Space, motion, solids & the dream of Time --

17Why, still 'tis Being looking from the dark,

18The core, the centre of your consciousness,

19That notes your bubble-world: sense, pleasure, pain,

20What are they but a shifting otherness,

21Phantasmal flux of moments? --"

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In a London Drawingroom

1The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke.

2For view there are the houses opposite

3Cutting the sky with one long line of wall

4Like solid fog: far as the eye can stretch

5Monotony of surface & of form

6Without a break to hang a guess upon.

7No bird can make a shadow as it flies,

8For all is shadow, as in ways o'erhung

9By thickest canvass, where the golden rays

10Are clothed in hemp. No figure lingering

11Pauses to feed the hunger of the eye

12Or rest a little on the lap of life.

13All hurry on & look upon the ground,

14Or glance unmarking at the passers by

15The wheels are hurrying too, cabs, carriages

16All closed, in multiplied identity.

17The world seems one huge prison-house & court

18Where men are punished at the slightest cost,

19With lowest rate of colour, warmth & joy.

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'Mid my Gold-brown Curls

1'Mid my gold-brown curls

2 There twined a silver hair:

3I plucked it idly out

4And scarcely knew 'twas there.

5Coiled in my velvet sleeve it lay

6And like a serpent hissed:

7"Me thou canst pluck & fling away,

8 One hair is lightly missed;

9But how on that near day

10When all the wintry army muster in array?"

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"O May I Join the Choir Invisible"

Longum illud tempus, quum non ero, magis me movet, quam hoc exigium.

-- CICERO, ad Att., xii. 18.

1O may I join the choir invisible

2Of those immortal dead who live again

3In minds made better by their presene: live

4In pulses stirred to generosity,

5In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn

6For miserable aims that end with self,

7In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,

8And with their mild persistence urge man's search

9To vaster issues.

9 So to live is heaven:

10To make undying music in the world,

11Breathing as beauteous order that controls

12With growing sway the growing life of man.

13So we inherit that sweet purity

14For which we struggled, failed, and agonised

15With widening retrospect that bred despair.

16Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued,

17A vicious parent shaming still its child

18Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved;

19Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies,

20Die in the large and charitable air.

21And all our rarer, better, truer self,

22That sobbed religiously in yearning song,

23That watched to ease the burthen of the world,

24Laboriously tracing what must be,

25And what may yet be better -- saw within

26A worthier image for the sanctuary,

27And shaped it forth before the multitude

28Divinely human, raising worship so

29To higher reference more mixed with love --

30That better self shall live till human Time

31Shall fold its eyelids, and the human sky

32Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb

33Unread for ever.

33 This is life to come,

34Which martyred men have made more glorious

35For us who strive to follow. May I reach

36That purest heaven, be to other souls

37The cup of strength in some great agony,

38Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love,

39Beget the smiles that have no cruelty --

40Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,

41And in diffusion ever more intense.

42So shall I join the choir invisible

43Whose music is the gladness of the world.

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Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love

"La noche buena se viene,

La noche buena se va,

Y nosotros nos iremos

Y no volveremos mas."

-- Old Villancico.

1Sweet evenings come and go, love,

2 They came and went of yore:

3This evening o our life, love,

4 Shall go and come no more.

5When we have passed away, love,

6 All things will keep their name;

7But yet no life on earth, love,

8 With ours will be the same.

9The daisies will be there, love,

10 The stars in heaven will shine:

11I shall not feel thy wish, love,

12 Nor thou my hand in thine.

13A better time will come, love,

14 And better souls be born:

15I would not be the best, love,

16 To leave thee now forlorn.

【作者: 翰唐】【访问统计:】【2005年06月11日星期六 16:39】【注册】【打印】

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