沉默的情人
The Silent Lover
【英國】華爾特·雷利Walter Raleigh（1552-1618）
激情恰如流水，
淺水低語而深水沉默；
所以感情若是傾吐，
心底便了無深情。
情話倘若滔滔不絕，
愛意實際虛假淺薄。
Passions are liken' d best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So,when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come,
They that are rich in words, in words discover
That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
The Nymph's Reply to the shepherd
如果全世界與愛情仍然年輕。
牧羊人的話也都誠摯。
或許這些賞心悅事會使我動情，
使我和你生活在一起，淪為你的情人。
但當河流泛濫，岩石變冷，
羊群隻能從田野逐回羊圈。
夜鶯也會了無聲息，
萬物都憂心地悲歎。
百花凋零，蔥鬱的大地
被狂暴的嚴冬任意摧殘；
一張甜蜜的唇，一顆狠毒的心，
是幻想中的春天，是悲哀裏的秋天。
你的長袍、你的鞋、你的玫瑰床。
你的冠冕、你的花束、你的裙裝，
很快就會衰敗、枯萎、被遺忘——
在愚蠢中生，在理智中亡。
你麥草和常春藤花蕾的腰帶，
還有珊瑚和琥珀的紐扣，
統統不能使我為之動情
使我和你生活在一起，淪為你的情人。
但如果青春長駐、愛情永留，
歡樂無期限、老來從心所欲，
這些賞心悅事也許會使我動心，
使我和你生活在一起，淪為你的情人。
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.
Time drives the flocks from field to fold
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue,a heart of gall,
Is fancy' s spring, but sorrow's fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap,thy kirtle,and thy posies
Soon break,soon wither,soon forgotten——
In folly ripe,in reason rotten.
Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.
But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.
短 歌
A DITTY
【英國】菲力普·錫德尼Philip Sidney（1554-1586）
我的意中人——把心交給了我，我的交給了她，
我們倆以心交心，心心相印：
我對她真心誠意，她也不會將我拋棄，
這樣的海誓山盟世間難覓：
意中人把心交給了我，我的交給了她。
他的心意定能讓我們合二為一，
我的心意定能成他心思的向導：
他珍愛我的心，因它曾在他的胸膛裏跳動，
我珍愛他的心，因為它此刻占據我的整個胸膛：
意中人把心交給了我，我的交給了她。
My true-love hath my heart,and I have his,
By just exchange one for another given:
I hold his dear,and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better barg ain driven:
My true - love hath my heart, and I have his.
His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
He loves my heart,for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true-love hath my heart,and I have his.
月啊，你用悲哀的步伐
With How Sad Steps,O Moon
【英國】菲力普·錫德尼Philip Sidney（1554-1586）
月啊，你用如此悲哀的步伐攀登天空！
多麼寧靜，帶著一張蒼白的麵孔！
難道在天穹上那忙碌的射手
也要舞弄他的弓箭？
早已獲悉愛情的雙眸能夠辨識愛情，
我敢斷定你已遭遇了愛情，
對於同病相憐的我，你憔悴的容顏
已經將你的處境完全訴說出了。
出於同樣的境況，月啊，告訴我，
堅貞的愛情是否被看成理智的或缺？
天上的美人是否與這裏的同樣傲慢？
她們是否喜歡被愛，卻
又蔑視那些癡情者？
在天上是否把背情棄意當作美德？
With how sad steps,O Moon,thou climb'st the skies!
How silently,and with how wan a face!
What, may it be that e'en in heavenly place
That busy archer his sharp arrows tries!
Sure,if that long - with - love - acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case,
I read it in thy looks;thy languish'd grace,
To me ,that feel the like, thy state descries.
Then,e'en of fellowship,O Moon,tell me,
Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue ,there, ungratefulness?
【英國】黎裏John Lyly（約1554-1606）
丘比特和我的康帕絲打賭，
賭接吻，丘比特敗陣下來；
他又賭箭袋、弓和箭，
母親的鴿子，還有麻雀；
全部都輸了，然後她唇上的珊瑚，
頰上生長的玫瑰（如何生長卻無人知曉）；