《Ode to a Nightingale》 by John Keats __ 江紹倫中譯

《Ode to a Nightingale》 『夜鶯頌』
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
我心疼困倦神經麻木
醉如服過劇毒苦漿
或吞食鴉片而心靈空曠
我驟然掉入冥河忘川
不羨慕你的幸運
實欣喜你的歡樂
你這輕翼的林中仙子
宣揚美妙歌曲
透入無盡山巒的綠蔭林裡
放懷高唱夏天

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《Bright Star》by John Keats __江紹倫中譯

《Bright Star》by John Keats
《亮星》__濟慈

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
星但願我如你一樣堅持
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
不在夜空中獨放光明
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
用掙開的眼光永恒看守
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
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《In drear-nighted December》by John Keats__江紹倫中譯

《一個凄涼十二月夜之歌》(濟慈)

In drear-nighted December, 在一個十二月凄涼夜裡
Too happy, happy tree, 真快樂一如快樂的樹
Thy branches ne’er remember你的枝柯從不牽記
Their green felicity: 那綠色的幸福
The north cannot undo them不由北風除去
With a sleety whistle through them; 你的枝柯不被嶊傷
Nor frozen thawings glue them 凍結不解封固
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《The Lake Isle of Innisfree》by W. B. Yeats (1865 – 1939)__ 江紹倫中譯

Yeats

《因尼斯夫莉湖島》()__ 江紹倫中譯 

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
我即此動身到達因尼斯夫莉
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
就地蓋建一間土木砌造的小築
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
躬耕九坑長豆及蓄一蜜蜂
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
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《Ten Talks on Poetry Appreciation: 10__As the River Flows》__ Kong Shiu Loon (53)

Ten Talks
(10) As the River Flows 

To conclude this Talk on Poetry Appreciation I must share with my readers the many wonderful experiences I had with the river, in life as in poetry.
I first encountered a river in 1942, days after Hong Kong fell into Japanese hands, when I was brought to my mother’s native home, Village Beneath the Tall Mountain (太山下) Nearby flowed a big river ………
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