When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace,
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;–then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

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《當我恐怕自己的生命終止》  約翰‧濟慈                   

當我恐怕自己的生命終止
而我還來不及寫下我的澎拜思潮
還未讀完如山高堆的典籍
豐收那成熟的金黃穀子
當我在深夜仰望繁星
馳想雲層中隱藏着的愛情故事
深感即使幸獲機緣之助
自己亦永無雲彩庇護
當我感到絕世佳人的呼喚
亦永不敢對她凝視
沒有仙人的權能
享受不喻愛情的滋味
我獨立岸邊沉思
悟見情與譽的虛無

HOW many bards gild the lapses of time!          多少詩人為流光鍍金
A few of them have ever been the food              有者給我送來精神食糧
Of my delighted fancy,- I could brood               激發我的歡樂幻想
Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime:          那世俗或崇高的美妙詩篇

And often, when I sit me down to rhyme,                      每當我靜坐尋韻
These will in throngs before my mind intrude:            心鄉即充滿華章
But no confusion, no disturbance rude                           沒有零亂或粗陋的擾攘
Do they occasion; ’tis a pleasing chime.                         只有和音麗響

So the unnumber’d sounds that evening store;            黃昏收集無數清音
The songs of birds – the whisp’ring of the leaves-        群鳥歌唱與樹葉絮語
The voice of waters – the great bell that heaves           潺潺流水與遠鐘和鳴
With solemn sound,- and thousand others more ,      融為莊嚴稀聲
That distance of recognizance bereaves,                 遠方不易辨認的千萬鳴響
Make pleasing music, and not wild uproar.            合成絕非狂喊的神妙音樂

O SOFT embalmer of the still midnight!     悠靜午夜的溫柔抹香者
Shutting with careful fingers and benign      你用慈愛細心的指觸
Our gloom-pleased eyes, embower’d from the light, 除下朦朧眼睛上的陽光
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine; 把我投入神聖的遺忘之鄉
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close, 哦讓甜睡滿足地逍遙吧
In midst of this thine hymn, my willing eyes,       讓合着的雙眼聆聽頌歌
Or wait the amen, ere thy poppy throws                或者等待祈禱以後
Around my bed its lulling charities;                        好意地把催眠罌粟灑滿床上
Then save me, or the passèd day will shine          然後喚醒我
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;                  免卻逝去的光蔭在枕上造生悲哀
Save me from curious conscience, that still lords      請教我放下良知中的好奇
Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;       它鑽入黑暗的强力猶比鼴鼠
Turn the key deftly in the oilèd wards,                            請輕巧地轉動鑰匙
And seal the hushèd casket of my soul.                           鎖上我魂魄的安靜靈柩