－G.Herbert/赫伯特
Sweet day,so cool,so calm,so bright! 甜美的白昼，如此凉爽、安宁、明媚！
The bridal of the earth and sky- 天地间完美的匹配-----
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night今宵的露珠儿将为你的消逝而落泪；
For thou must die. 因为你必须离去。
Sweet rose,whose hue angry and brave, 美丽的玫瑰，色泽红润艳丽，
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, 令匆匆而过的人拭目而视，
Thy root is ever in its grave, 你的根永远扎在坟墓里，
And thou must die. 而你必须消逝。
Sweet spring,full of sweet days and roses, 美妙的春天，充满了美好的日子和芳香的玫瑰，
A box where sweets compacted lie, 如一支芬芳满溢的盒子，
My music shows ye have your closes, 我的音乐表明你们也有终止，
And all must die, 万物都得消逝。
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 唯有美好而正直的心灵，
Like season'd timber,never gives犹如干燥备用的木料，永不走样；
But though the whole world turn to coal, 纵然整个世界变为灰烬，
Then chiefly lives. 它依然流光溢彩。
Think it Over……好好想想……
Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view
今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；
We spend more,but enjoy less
我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；
We have bigger houses,but smaller famillies
我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；
We have more compromises,but less time
我们妥协更多，时间更少；
We have more knowledge,but less judgment
我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；
We have more medicines,but less health
我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；
We have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values
我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；
We talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much
我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；
We reached the Moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors
我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍；
We have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space
我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；
We have highter income,but less morals
我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了；
These are times with more liberty,but less joy
我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少；
We have much more food,but less nutrition
我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了；
These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase
现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了；
These are times of finer houses,but more broken homes
现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭；
That's why I propose,that as of today
这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始；
You do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a SPECIAL OCCASION.
不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别；
Search for knowledge,read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs
寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法；
Spend more time with your family and friends,eat your favorite foods,visit the places you love
花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方；
Life is a chain of moments of enjoymentnot only about survival
生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存；
Use your crystal goblets.Do not save your best perfume,and use it every time you feel you want it.
举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！
Remove from your vocabulary phrases like"one of these days"or "someday"
从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；
Let's write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"!
曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！
Let's tell our families and friends how much we love them
告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们；
Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life
不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情；
Every day,every hour,and every minute is special
每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别；
And you don't know if it will be your last.
你无从知道这是否最后刻。
The Rainy Day 雨天
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利.沃兹渥斯.朗费罗
The day is cold,and dark,and dreary
It rains,and the wind is never weary
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold and dark and dreary
It rains and the wind is never weary
My though still cling to the moldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still,sad heart!And cease repining
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
天冷、阴暗、沉闷；
下着雨，风也刮个不停；
藤还攀附着颓垣残壁，
每来一阵狂风，枯叶附落纷纷，
天真是阴暗而沉闷。
我的生活寒冷、阴郁、沉闷；
下着雨，风也刮个不停；
我的思想还纠缠着消逝的往事，
大风里，我的青春希望相继熄灭，
天真是阴暗而沉闷。
安静吧，忧伤的心！别再悔恨；
乌云后面太阳依然辉煌灿烂；
你命运和大家的一样，
每个人一生都得逢上阴雨，
有些日子必然阴暗而沉闷。
These Things Shall Never Die 这些美好不会消逝
--Charles Dickens/查尔斯.狄更斯
The pure.the bright,the beautiful, 一切纯洁的,辉煌的,美丽的,
That stirred our hearts in youth, 强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的,
The impulses to wordless prayer, 推动着我们做无言的祷告的,
The dreams of love and truth让我们梦想着爱与真理的
The longing after something's lost, 在失去后为之感到珍惜的,
The spirit's yearning cry, 使灵魂深切地呼喊着的,
The striving after better hopes- 为了更美好的梦想而奋斗着的-
These things can never die. 这些美好不会消逝。
The timid hand stretched forth to aid 羞怯地伸出援助的手，
A brother in his need, 在你的弟兄需要的时候，
A kindly word in grief's dark hour 伤恸、困难的时候，一句亲切的话
That proves a friend indeed 就足以证明朋友的真心；
The plea for mercy softly breathed, 轻声地乞求怜悯，
When justice threatens nigh, 在审判临近的时候，
The sorrow of a contrite heart- 懊悔的心有一种伤感--
These things shall never die. 这些美好不会消逝。
Let nothing pass for every hand 在人间传递温情
Must find some work to do 尽你所能地去做；
Lose not a chance to waken love- 别错失去了唤醒爱的良机-----
Be firm,and just ,and true为人要坚定，正直，忠诚；
So shall a light that cannot fade 因此上方照耀着你的那道光芒
Beam on thee from on high. 就不会消失。
And angel voices say to thee---你将听到天使的声音在说-----
These things shall never die. 这些美好不会消逝。
Love's Witness--爱情的见证
Slight unpremeditated Words are borne
By every common Wind into the Air
Carelessly utter'd, die as soon as born，
And in one instant give both Hope and Fear：
Breathing all Contraries with the same Wind
According to the Caprice of the Mind.
But Billetdoux are constant Witnesses，
Substantial Records to Eternity
Just Evidences，who the Truth confess,
On which the Lover safely may rely；
They're serious Thoughts，digested and resolv'd；
And last，when Words are into Clouds devolv'd.
不加思索的轻率话语，
被每一次平凡的呼吸载入空气；
随便说说，刚出口即消失，
一瞬间给人希望和恐惧：
同一气息呼出万般矛盾心肠，
追随心灵无常的遐想。
但情书则是恒常的见证，
直至永恒的实体记录；
公道的证物，它道出真诚，
恋人能在其上安心依附；
它们是严肃的思想，经过深思熟虑；
当话语在云外消失，它们还将延续。
Almost Persuaded--- by David Houston
August 18, 2001 18:17
Last night all alone in the bar room
Met a girl with a drink in her hand
She has ruby red eyes, cold black hair
And eyes that could tempt any man
And she came and sat down at my table
And there she placed her soft hand in mine
I found myself wanting to kiss her
For temptation was flowing like wine
And I Almost Persuaded
To strip myself off my pride
Almost Persuaded
To push my conscience aside
And we danced and she whispered,
"I need you"
Take me away from here and be my man
Then I looked into her eyes and I saw ----
The reflection of my wedding band
And I Almost Persuaded
To let strange lips lead me on
Almost Persuaded
But your sweet love made me
Stop and go home
(* This poem is provided by a web friend. *)
To Love You Well Enough by Robert A. Daniels
Do I know you well enough
To love you well enough
To dream by your side
Until death do we part?
Am I one with you
In the way that the star and its light are one,
Or is there division, as a horizon,
Standing between us?
Do you fill me or empty me
Do you invade my spirit
Or allow it to be released
Like a genie from a tarnished lamp?
Do I know you well enough
To love you well enough
To dream by your side
Until death do we part?
Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again --- by Xu Zhimo
再别康桥 徐志摩
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here
Quietly I wave good-bye
To the rosy clouds in the western sky.
The golden willows by the riverside
Are young brides in the setting sun
Their reflections on the shimmering waves
Always linger in the depth of my heart.
The floatingheart growing in the sludge
Sways leisurely under the water
In the gentle waves of Cambridge
I would be a water plant!
That pool under the shade of elm trees
Holds not water but the rainbow from the sky
Shattered to pieces among the duckweeds
Is the sediment of a rainbow-like dream?
To seek a dream? Just to pole a boat upstream
To where the green grass is more verdant
Or to have the boat fully loaded with starlight
And sing aloud in the splendour of starlight.
But I cannot sing aloud
Quietness is my farewell music
Even summer insects heep silence for me
Silent is Cambridge tonight!
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here
Gently I flick my sleeves
Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring away
轻轻的我走了，
正如我轻轻的来；
我轻轻的招手，
作别西天的云彩。
那河畔的金柳
是夕阳中的新娘
波光里的艳影，
在我的心头荡漾。
软泥上的青荇，
油油的在水底招摇；
在康河的柔波里，
我甘心做一条水草
那榆荫下的一潭，
不是清泉，是天上虹
揉碎在浮藻间，
沉淀着彩虹似的梦。
寻梦？ 撑一支长篙，
向青草更青处漫溯，
满载一船星辉，
在星辉斑斓里放歌
但我不能放歌，
悄悄是别离的笙箫；
夏虫也为我沉默，
沉默是今晚的康桥！
悄悄的我走了，
正如我悄悄的来；
我挥一挥衣袖，
不带走一片云彩。
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?夏之眠
冬日里我夜里起床，
借着昏黄的烛光穿衣裳。
夏日里可不一样，
我不得不白日里就睡觉上床。
小鸟儿仍在树上蹦蹦跳跳，
大人们的脚步声
还在大街上回响，
我却得早早睡觉上床。
天空还是那么蔚蓝，明亮，
我多么想嬉戏，玩耍，
你是否觉得
这时候就睡觉难入梦乡？
Silent meaning
The word not spoken goes not quite unheard.
It lingers in the eye, in the semi-arch of brow.
A gesture of the hand speaks pages more than words,
The echo rests in the heart as driftwood does in sand,
To be rubbed by time until it rots or shines.
The word not spoken touches us as music does the mind.沉默的含义
无声的语言
并非完全听不见。
它荡漾在眼波里，
表露在眉宇间。
一个心照不宣的手势
胜过万语千言，
萦绕心灵的回音
好象浮木浪迹于沙滩，
随着岁月的消磨
不是燃烧，就是腐烂。
无声的语言
触及我们的情感，
恰似有声的音乐
拨动人们的心弦
Sliver By Walter de la Mare
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Sliver fruit upon silver trees
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye
And motionless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.银 白
月 神 着 素 履，
轻 悄 飘 环 宇。
偶 然 窥 果 园，
果 实 白 如 玉。
茅 屋 凝 霜 雪，
窗 棂 银 光 聚。
柴 门 无 犬 吠，
悠 然 美 梦 居。
白 鸽 梦 中 觑，
清 辉 照 银 羽。
玉 鼠 奔 如 电，
银 光 映 眼 眸。
芦 苇 白 似 雪，
鱼 儿 不 潜 游。
Morning
I love to wake to each new day,
And brush my dreams
Of night away,
And look out through my window wide
To see what weather is outside,
And wonder what exciting thing
This shining, un-used day
Will bring.清 晨
我喜欢醒来迎接每一个清晨，
轻松抖落一夜的梦尘，
从窗口向外眺望远处，
广茅的天地是否晴空无云，
想象何等激动人心的事
这灿烂崭新的一天将献呈。
Ode To The Sea－－－Pablo Neruda
Here surrounding the island there is sea
But what sea
lt's always overflowing
says " Yes," then"No," then "No"again.
And "No,"says"Yes" in blue,
in sea spray raging,
says "No" and "No" again.
It can't be still.
It stammers "my name is sea."
It slaps the rocks,
and when they aren't convinced
Strokes them and soaks them
and smolders them with kisses.
with seven green tongues of seven green dogs,
Or seven green tigers, or Seven green seas
Beating its chest, stammering its name.
Oh, sea, this is your name.
oh, comrade ocean, don't waste time
or water getting so upset.
Help us instead.
We're meager fishermen,
men from the shore.
We're hungry and cold
and you're our foe.
Don't beat so hard, don't shout so loud.
Open your green coffers.
Place gifts of silver in our hands.
Give us this day our daily fish.至大海
一片汪洋环绕岛屿。
这是怎样的大海啊?
汹涌不休,
说"是",接而"不",一遍叉一遍 重复着"不",它忧悒地说"是", 却咆哮着
重复说"不",
永无静止。
它吞吐道："我的名字叫大海。" 岩石不相信,
于是海浪拍打着
撞击着,冲剃着。
叉以无数个亲吻去抚慰它们。
以从七只猛犬、七头白虎、七大汪洋 取来的七条利舌
拍打胸膛,吐出它的名字。
噢,大海,我们知道你的名字。
噢,大海同志,别虚度时日
也别空自悲伤。
帮帮我们吧
我们是贫困潦倒的渔民。
你岸上的子民
我们饥寒交迫。
而你是我们的对手。
别那么气势汹汹,别那么大声地咆哮。
打开你珍贵的宝箱吧,
将财富赐于我们
赐于我们今日的收获吧。
Dreams 梦想
---Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams 紧紧抓住梦想，
For if dreams die 梦想若是消亡
Life is a broken-winged bird 生命就象鸟儿折了翅膀
That can never fly. 再也不能飞翔
Hold fast to dreams 紧紧抓住梦想，
For when dreams go 梦想若是消丧
Life is a barren field 生命就象贫瘠的荒野，
Frozen only with snow 雪覆冰封，万物不再生长
Windflowers
Windflowers,windflowers
my father told me not to go
near them
He said he feared them always
and he told me that they
carried him away
Windflowers,beartiful
windflowers
I couldn't wait to touch them
to smell them I held them
closely
And now I cannot break away
Their sweet bouquet disappears
like the vapor in the desert
So take a warning ,son
Windflowers ,ancient
windflowers
their beauty capture every
young dreamer
who lingers near them
But ancient windflowers,
I love you
风飞花，风飞花，
父亲对我说别走近它
他说他总有些害怕
他说他迷恋过它
风飞花，美丽的风飞花
我急切地要抚摸它
贴近脸颊闻久嗅
如今我已无法自拔
它的芳香犹如水汽
沙漠中蒸发
所以，孩子，听句劝告吧
风飞花，古老的风飞花
美丽迷惑了每个年轻的梦人
久久的徘徊在它的身旁
而我爱你，
古老的风飞花
The Pride of Youth
青春的骄傲
华尔德·司各特
Proud Maisie is in the wood,
Walking so early
Sweet Robin sits on the bush,
Singing so rarely.
“tell me ,thou bonny bird,
when shall I marry me?”
-“when six braw gentlemen
kirkward shall carry ye.”
“who makes the bridal bed,
birdie, say truly?”
-“The gray-headed sexton
That delves the grave duly.
“The glowworm o’er grave and stone
Shall light thee steady
The owl from the steeple sing,
Welcome, proud lady.”
骄傲的梅西漫步林间，
踩着晨曦；
伶俐的知更鸟栖息树丛，
唱得甜蜜。
“告诉我，美丽的鸟儿，
我哪年哪月穿嫁装？”－－
“等到六个殡葬人
抬你上教堂。”
“谁为我铺新床？
好鸟儿，莫撒谎。”－－
“白发司事，兼挖墓穴，
误不了你的洞房。”
“萤火虫幽幽闪闪，
把你的坟墓照亮，送葬，
猫头鹰将在塔尖高唱：
欢迎你，骄傲的姑娘
If 如果
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about,don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twiseted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothin in you
Except the Will which says to them:"Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none too much
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty second' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
如果所有人都失去理智，咒骂你，
你仍能保持头脑情形；
如果所有人都怀疑你，
你仍能坚信自己，让所有的怀疑动摇；
如果你要等待，不要因此厌烦，
为人所骗，不要因此骗人，
为人所恨，不要因此抱恨，
不要太乐观，不要自以为是；
如果你是个追梦人——不要被梦主宰；
如果你是个爱思考的人——光想会达不到目标；
如果你遇到骄傲和挫折
把两者当骗子看待；
如果你能忍受，你曾讲过的事实
被恶棍扭曲，用于蒙骗傻子；
看着你用毕生去看护的东西被破坏，
然后俯身，用破烂的工具把它修补；
如果在你赢得无数桂冠之后‘
突遇颠峰下跌之险，
失败过后，东山再起，
不要抱怨你的失败；
如果你能迫使自己，
在别人走后，长久坚守阵地，
在你心中已空荡荡无一物’
只有意志告诉你“坚持！”；
如果你与人交谈，能保持风度，
伴王行走，能保持距离；
如果仇敌和好友都不害你；
如果所有人都指望你，却无人全心全意；
如果你花六十秒进行短程跑，
填满那不可饶恕的一分钟——
你就可以拥有一个世界，
这个世界的一切都是你的，
更重要的是，孩子，你是个顶天立地的人。
