心儿灌水--勃朗宁夫人十四行诗

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白朗宁夫人抒情十四行诗集第三十七首

原谅我，啊，请原谅吧，并非我无知，
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
不明白一切德性全归于你、属于你；
Of all that strong divineness which I know

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可是，你在我心里构成的形象，
For thine and thee, an image only so
却就象一堆虚浮不实的泥沙！
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.

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是那年深月久的孤僻，象遭了
It is that distant years which did not take
当头一棒，从你面前尽往后缩，
Thy sovranty [1], recoiling with a blow,

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迫使我眩晕的知觉涌起了疑虑和
Have forced my swimming brain to undergo
恐惧，盲目地舍弃了你纯洁的面目，
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake

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最崇高的爱给我歪曲成最荒谬的
Thy purity of likeness and distort
形状。就象一个沉了船的异教徒，
Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit.

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安然脱险，上了岸，酬谢保佑他的
As if a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port,
海神，献上了一尾木雕的海豚--
His guardian sea-god to commemorate,

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那两腮呼呼作响、尾巴掀起了
Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a snort
怒浪的庞大的海族--在庙宇的门墙内。
And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate.

[1] sovranty = sovereignty

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白朗宁夫人抒情十四行诗集第三十八首

第一次他亲我，他只是亲了一下
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
在写这诗篇的手，从此我的手就越来
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;

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越白净晶莹，不善作世俗的招呼，
And ever since, it grew more clean and white, ...
而敏于呼召：“啊，快听哪，快听
Slow to the world-greetings, quick with its `Oh, list,'

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天使在说话哪！”即使在那儿戴上一个
When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst
紫玉瑛戒指，也不会比那第一个吻
I could not wear here, plainer to my sight,