Robert John Browning 1858

Last night I saw you in my sleep:
And how your charm of face was changed!
I asked “Some love, some faith you keep?”
You answered “Faith gone, love estranged.”

Whereat I woke–a twofold bliss:
Waking was one, but next there came
This other: “Though I felt, for this,
My heart break, I loved on the same.”

陈耀国译  Trans. YK Chan:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 惡夢                              (英) 罗伯特.博朗寧

昨夜我夢見你:

怎得你迷人的花容已變了！

我问 “你尚保留我的爱心, 我的信念矣？”

你答 “信念已过往，愛心已迷離了。”

我就此夢醒—-获得双重快慰:

一来是清醒，二来                                                              

却是:”雖然因此我為

难堪伤心，我忠爱如昔哉。”

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^* This is the shortest poem of the Bad Dreams series of four that Browning wrote.  It appears in Asolando: Fancies and Facts (1889).