【正文】 but weep o39。d race, To feel at least a patriot39。Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though link39。 20 And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations。 grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o39。d that Greece might still be free。Islands of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea。s lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse: Their place of birth alone is mute 10 To sounds which echo further west Than your sires39。 But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! Ge Gordon Byron(17881824) The Isles of Greece THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, 5 But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero39。 15 Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all。 Still by himself abus’d or disabus’d。 Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err。 In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast。 ” 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 man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride, He hangs between。 因為我們生而具有神力， 秉有輕清的靈質(zhì)，不能朽壞， 又因這次大事件的經(jīng)驗， 我們要準備更好的武器， 更遠的預見，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。 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。 since, by fate, the strength of Gods, And this empyreal sybstance, cannot fail。 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。 盡管你會習慣地拍死跳蚤， 千萬別，這會殺了我 ，也增加你的自殺之罪， 殺害三條生命會褻瀆神靈。 住手，一只跳蚤，三條生命啊， 它的身體不只是見證我們的婚約。st to me, Will waste, as this flea39。 then learn how false fears be 。st not thyself nor me the weaker now. 39。st, and say39。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。 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。 Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper39。d me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know39。 John Donne （ 15721631） THE FLEA. MARK but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is 。 而你如仲夏繁茂不凋謝， 秀雅風姿將永遠翩翩； 死神無法逼你氣息奄奄， 你將永生于不朽詩篇。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？ 你卻比炎夏更可愛溫存； 狂風摧殘五月花蕊嬌妍， 夏天匆匆離去毫不停頓。st。 And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course, untrimmed。 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。 But thy eternal summer shall not