【英國】克瑞斯蒂娜·羅塞蒂Christina Rossetti（1830-1894）
我希望我能把那最初那一天銘記，
你與我相遇的最初那刻，那時
季節是明媚還是暗淡，也許是
夏日還是冬季，我都說不上；
初會的情景竟全然遺忘，
我盲目到竟看不到預見不到它的意義，
我麻木到不知道我的情樹已然萌芽，
要在多年後的春天才會開放，
要是我能將那一日憶起該多好，
那特別的一日！我讓它來了又去，
如舊雪融化無跡可覓；
它似乎無足輕重，卻又如此重要；
要是我能憶起那次初相遇該多好，
第一次牽手——要是那時我知道該多好！
I wish I could remember that first day,
First hour,first moment of your meeting me,
If bright or dim the season,it might be
Summer or Winter for aught I can say;
So unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it,such
A day of days!I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow;
It seemed to mean so little,meant so much;
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand—Did one but know!
【英國】克瑞斯蒂娜·羅塞蒂Christina Rossetti（1830-1894）
記住我在我離開時，
走進遙遠的沉默的大地，
那時你已不能緊握我的手，
我也不能欲去又留戀。
記住我當你不再日複一日地
告訴我你對我們未來的計劃，
隻要你把我記住；你明白
和我討論或向我懇求將太遲。
如果你把我忘記一陣
後來又想起，不要太傷心，
因為如果黑暗和腐朽殘留在
我曾有的思想的痕跡中，
你最好把我忘記並微笑，
那將比記住我並感到悲傷要好得多。
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land,
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay,
Remember me when no more day by day
Your tell me of our future that you planned;
Only remember me;you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember,do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
當我死了，我親愛的
When I Am Dead,My Dearest
【英國】克瑞斯蒂娜·羅塞蒂Christina Rossetti（1830-1894）
愛的美酒
The Wine of Love
【英國】詹姆斯·湯姆森James Thomson（1834-1882）
愛的美酒是音樂，
而愛的盛宴則是歌唱：
一旦愛坐下參宴，
愛就很久很長地坐著：
坐久了，一起身就會醉，
然而不是因為美酒和盛宴；
是因為戀戀不舍的癡情，
他暈眩，是因為執著的心。
The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:
Sits long and ariseth drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great rich Vine.
有愛就很滿足
Love Is Enough
【英國】威廉·莫裏斯William Morris（1834-1896）
有愛就很滿足：盡管世界在變暗，
森林發出的隻有一聲聲哀怨的聲音，
盡管天太黑，弄得模模糊糊的眼睛
看不清天底下盛開的金盞和雛菊，
盡管人說山是陰影，海是黑暗的神秘，
可這一天似紗幕，往日的態勢也給遮掩了，
他們的手就是抖不了，腿疲不到；
愛者和被愛者的吻和眼神的交遇，
恐懼難使其變，空虛也難使其膩。
Love is enough:though the World be awaning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows,and the sea a dark wonder
And this day draw a veil over all deeds pass'd over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble,their feet shall not falter;
The void shall not weary,the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
舞台之愛
Stage Love
【英國】斯溫伯恩Algernon Charies Swinburne（1837-1909）
當他們之間嬉戲玩笑的遊戲一開場，
他演王，她演後，比比誰演得更強。
笑輕柔似淚，而眼淚又變成歡笑，
這是她經年的追求，可不久又深陷在悲悼之中。
嘴唇幹裂地快樂著，卻在深夜裏痛苦不堪；
長久的歡娛伴隨著陣陣刺痛和瑕疵。
當她開始與情人玩半真半假的愛情遊戲，
這一切為她所不解，為她所不知。
時間是合唱，提示著他們歡笑或哭泣，
他們絞殺、愚弄他，欺騙他又讓他去死；
今天讓他織網，明天又將網給撕破，
直到在演出中死掉，在悲傷中離去。
時光意味著什麼？如何消失又怎樣永生；
愛情如何生長，怎樣歡樂、悲傷又消亡？
這一切她終於了解，並仔細把它們來估量，
此時一場專為取悅一個男子的戲劇已散場。
When the game began between them for a jest,
He played king and she played queen to match the best;
Laughter soft as tears,and tears that turned to laughter,
These were things she sought for years and sorrowed after.
Pleasure with dry lips,and pain that walks by night;
All the sting and all the stain of long delight;
These were things she knew not of,that knew not of her,
When she played at half a love with half a lover.
Time was chorus,gave them cues to laugh or cry;
They would kill, befool, amuse him,let him die;
Set him webs to weave today and break tomorrow,