心儿灌水--勃朗宁夫人十四行诗

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“我爱她，为了她的一笑，她的模样，
`I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way
她柔语的声气；为了她这感触
Of speaking gently, ... for a trick of thought
正好合我的心意，那天里，的确

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That falls in well with mine, and certes brought  [certes: certainly]
　给我带来满怀的喜悦和舒畅。”
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day' --
　亲爱的，这些好处都不能持常，

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For these things in themselves, Belov\`ed, may
会因你而变，而这样唱出的爱曲
Be changed, or change for thee, -- and love, so wrought  [wrought: worked]
也将这样哑寂。也别爱我因为你
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for

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又怜又惜地给我揩干了泪腮，
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, --
一个人会忘了哭泣，当她久受你
A creature might forget to weep, who bore

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温柔的慰安－－却因此失了你的爱。
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
爱我，请只是为了那爱的意念，
But love for love's sake, that evermore
　那你就能继续地爱，爱我如深海。
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

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Footnote:
This sonnet is little more than a copy of the following poem
which some two and a half centuries earlier.

Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for my constant heart, --
  For those may fail, or turn to ill,
    So thou and I shall sever:
Keep therefore a true woman's eye,
And love me still, but know not why --
  So hast thou the same reason still
    To doat upon me ever!
                           ANON.

Source: The Golden Treasury of The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems
        In The English Language, Oxford University Press, 1929.

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*15.EEB
白朗宁夫人抒情十四行诗集第十五首
EBB "The sonnets from the Portuguese", No. XV

请不要这样指责我：我在你面前
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
露出一副太冷静、忧郁的面容；
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;

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你我原是面朝着两个不同的方向，
For we too look two ways, and can not shine
那普照的阳光照不到两人的前额。
With the same sunlight on our brow and hair.

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你看着我，心中没半点儿不踏实，
On me thou lookest with no doubting care,
象看着一只笼罩在水晶里的蜜蜂；
As on a bee shut in a crystalline, --

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哀怨把我密封在圣洁的爱情中，
Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,
想张开双翼，扑向外面的空间、
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air