直至全都了解才能壓下。
溫和的激情進入了我的心膛，
就像白雪般溫柔融化我時，
或者更殘酷一點兒，請發發慈悲，愛人。
讓我浮浮沉沉，亦高亦低。
或者讓我帶著甜蜜的滿足活著，
或者讓我忘掉愛的含義死掉。
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do,yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not,I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying ,flies when pursue it,
Stands and lies by me,doth what I have done.
His too familiar care doth make me rue it.
No means I find to rid him from my breast,
Till by the end of things it be suppressed.
Some gentler passion slide into my mind,
For I am soft and made of melting snow;
Or be more cruel,love,and so be kind.
Let me or float or sink, be high or low.
Or let me live with some more sweet content,
Or die and so forget what love are meant.
【英國】艾德蒙德·斯賓塞Edmund Spenser（約1552-1599）
我的情人像冰，而我卻像火；
這如何是好，任我激情似火
也無法融化掉她那塊堅冰，
而我越是哀求，她越是堅硬。
又如何是好，她讓人如此寒心冰冷，
卻不能讓我沸騰的熱情降低，
反而讓我在大汗淋漓裏飽受煎熬，
讓我感覺那熱度在成倍地增加！
還有什麼事情能有這般奇跡，
能熔化萬物的火卻讓冰更堅硬；
靠了冷酷的寒氣凝結而成的冰，
卻有神奇的力量將火引燃！
高貴的心胸中蘊藏著這愛情的力量，
能改變世間萬物的自然傾向。
My love is like to ice,and I to fire;
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat!
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delayed by her heart-frozen cold;
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold!
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire,which all things melts,should harden ice;
And ice,which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device!
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
【英國】埃德蒙·斯賓塞Edmund Spenser（1552-1599）
一天我在沙灘下寫下她的芳名，
可海浪一來就把她的芳名給衝掉；
我再次重寫了一遍，
可又一次來臨的海潮又把我的用心吞噬掉。
她說：“你這是徒勞，自負的人，
想把終將消亡的東西變成不朽；
因為自身我也會像這樣腐朽掉，
我的名字也同樣會被化為烏有。”
我說：“不會，讓卑劣者用盡計謀
卻歸塵土，而你將會名聲永駐；
我的詩歌將會使你的美德千古長留，
還要在天堂鐫刻下你的光榮姓名：
那世間所有的人雖然能被死神征服，
我們的愛將永存，使未來生命更新。”
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tyde,and made my paynes his pray.
"Vayne man,"sayd she,"that doest in vaine assay,
A mortall thing so to immortalize,
For I my selve shall lyke to this decay,
And eek my name bee wyped out lykewize."
"Not so, "quod I, "let baser things devize,
To dy in dust,but you shall live by fame;
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens wryte your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdew,
Our love shall live ,and later life renew."
【英國】埃德蒙·斯賓塞Edmund Spenser（1552-1599）
我的愛人就是唯美，當你有幸發現
她那迎風飛舞閃光的金發；
美在當她泛紅的臉龐像玫瑰吐豔，
或者當愛火閃耀於她雙眸。
美在當她挺起那豐滿的胸脯
像帆船滿載著珍奇珠寶；
美在當她嫣然一笑竟會驅散
那遮掩了她光彩的孤傲雲團。
但她最美的時刻是當她打開那扇
用珍珠和紅寶石裝飾的大門，
透露出充盈聰慧才智的蜜語甜言，
以傳達她那高尚心靈的音信。
隻有這才是驚人奇功的心靈，
餘下的都不過是自然的造化神工而已。
Fair is my love,when her hair golden hairs
With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark;
Fair when the rose in red cheeks appears,
Or in her eyes the fire of love does spark.
Fair when her breast like a rich laden bark,
With precious merchandise she forth doth lay,
Fair when that cloud of pride ,which oft doth dark
Her goodly light with smiles she dries away.
But fairest she,when so she doth display
The gate with pearls and rubies richly dight
Through which her words so wise do make their way
To bear the message of her gentle spright.
The rest be works of nature's wonderment,
But this the work of heart's astonishment.