【正文】 English Poems William Shakespeare (XVIII) Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s Day Shall I pare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer39。s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold plexion dimmed。 And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course, untrimmed。 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow39。st。 Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade When in eternal lines to time thou grow39。st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 能否把你比作夏日璀璨 能否把你比作夏日璀璨？ 你卻比炎夏更可愛(ài)溫存； 狂風(fēng)摧殘五月花蕊嬌妍， 夏天匆匆離去毫不停頓。 蒼天明眸有 時(shí)過(guò)于灼熱， 金色臉容往往蒙上陰翳； 一切優(yōu)美形象不免褪色， 偶然摧折或自然地老去。 而你如仲夏繁茂不凋謝， 秀雅風(fēng)姿將永遠(yuǎn)翩翩； 死神無(wú)法逼你氣息奄奄， 你將永生于不朽詩(shī)篇。 只要人能呼吸眼不盲， 這詩(shī)和你將千秋流芳。 John Donne （ 15721631） THE FLEA. MARK but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is 。 It suck39。d me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know39。st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead 。 Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper39。d swells with one blood made of two 。 And this, alas ! is more than we would do. O stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, yea, more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. Though parents grudge, and you, we39。re met, And cloister39。d in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that selfmurder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three. Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence? Wherein could this flea guilty be, Except in that drop which it suck39。d from thee? Yet thou triumph39。st, and say39。st that thou Find39。st not thyself nor me the weaker now. 39。Tis true 。 then learn how false fears be 。 Just so much honour, when thou yield39。st to me, Will waste, as this flea39。s death took life from thee. 跳蚤 看呀，這只跳蚤，叮在這里， 你對(duì)我的拒絕多么微不足道； 它先叮我，現(xiàn)在又叮你， 我們的血液在它體內(nèi)溶和； 你知道這是不能言說(shuō)的 罪惡、羞恥、貞操的丟失， 它沒(méi)有向我們請(qǐng)求就得到享受， 飽餐了我們的血滴后大腹便便， 這種享受我們無(wú)能企及。 住手，一只跳蚤，三條生命啊， 它的身體不只是見(jiàn)證我們的婚約。 還是你和我，我們的婚床，婚姻的殿堂； 父母怨恨，你不情愿，我們還是相遇， 并躲藏在黝黑的有生命的墻院里。 盡管你會(huì)習(xí)慣地拍死跳蚤， 千萬(wàn)別，這會(huì)殺了我 ，也增加你的自殺之罪， 殺害三條生命會(huì)褻瀆神靈。 多么殘忍，你毫無(wú)猶豫 用無(wú)辜的鮮血染紅自己的指甲？ 它不過(guò)吸了你一滴血 罪不至死??？ 你卻以勝利者的口吻說(shuō) 你我并沒(méi)有因失血而有些虛弱； 的確，擔(dān)心不過(guò)是虛驚一場(chǎng)： 接受我的愛(ài)， 你的名譽(yù)不會(huì)有絲毫損失， 就象跳蚤之死不會(huì)讓你的生命有所損失。 John Milton (16081674) (from Book 1) Paradise Lost What though the field be lost? All is not lostthe unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overe? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who, from the terror of this arm, so late Doubted his empirethat were low indeed。 That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall。 since, by fate, the strength of Gods, And this empyreal sybstance, cannot fail。 Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th39。 excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven. … 我們損失了什么了 并非什么都丟光：不撓的意志、 熱切的復(fù)仇心、不滅的憎恨， 以及永不屈服、永不退讓的勇氣， 還有什么比這些更難戰(zhàn)勝的呢？ 他的暴怒也罷，威力也罷， 絕不能奪去我這份光榮。 經(jīng)過(guò)這一次戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的慘烈， 好容易才使他的政權(quán)動(dòng)搖， 這時(shí)還要彎腰屈膝，向他 哀求憐憫，拜倒在他的權(quán)力之下， 那才真正是卑鄙、可恥， 比這次的沉淪還要卑賤。 因?yàn)槲覀兩哂猩窳Γ? 秉有輕清的靈質(zhì)，不能朽壞， 又因這次大事件的經(jīng)驗(yàn)， 我們要準(zhǔn)備更好的武器， 更遠(yuǎn)的預(yù)見(jiàn)，更有成功的希望， 用暴力或智力向我們的大敵 挑起不可調(diào)解的 持久戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。 他現(xiàn)在正自夸勝利，得意忘形， 獨(dú)攬大權(quán)，在天上掌握虐政呢。 ” Alexander Pope (1688–1744) (Epistle II) Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is