旧译：两首有关清晨的诗
乔治赫伯特：晨祷
我睁不开双目
而你已在那儿守候
我清晨的灵魂和供奉：
因此我们必得那一日为媒。
我的主，什么是一颗心？
银的，金的，还是宝石，
或是星星，彩虹，还是这些事物
中的一份或所有这一切在一体？
我的主，什么是一颗心？
你会这样凝视它，求欢，
为它倾注所有的才艺，
好像你别无他事所乐？
其实人的全部财产
以其丰富伺服于你：
他既未开天也未辟地，
但研究因他而在的它们，而不是他。
传授你的爱让我了解；
这新的光，此刻我所见，
将显现神迹和创造者：
在一束光中我将攀登向你。
Mattins
George Herbert
I cannot ope mine eyes,
But thou art ready there to catch
My morning-soul and sacrifice:
Then we must needs for that day make a match.
My God, what is a heart?
Silver, or gold, or precious stone,
Or star, or rainbow, or a part
Of all these things or all of them in one?
My God, what is a heart?
That thou should'st it so eye, and woo,
Pouring upon it all thy art,
As if that thou had’st nothing else to do?
Indeed man's whole estate
Amounts (and richly) to serve thee:
He did not heav'n and earth create,
Yet studies them, not him by whom they be.
Teach me thy love to know;
That this new light, which now I see,
May both the work and workman show:
Then by a sun-beam I will climb to thee.
艾米莉-狄金森：太阳—刚刚触及清晨
太阳—刚刚触碰清晨—
清晨—欢喜之物—
假设他已来逗留—
生命将整个是春天！
她感觉自己愈加超越—
一个升起的—缥缈的事物！
自此—对她来说—何等的节日！
同时—她轮驰的国王—
辙行—缓慢地—沿着果园—
他傲然的—闪闪的衣褶—
留下一个崭新的需求！
对王冠的渴求！
清晨—振翼—蹒跚—
感到无力—因她的王冠—
她未受膏的额头—
自此—她的唯一！
The Sun -- just touched the Morning
Emily Dickinson
The Sun -- just touched the Morning --
The Morning -- Happy thing --
Supposed that He had come to dwell --
And Life would all be Spring!
She felt herself supremer --
A Raised -- Ethereal Thing!
Henceforth -- for Her -- What Holiday!
Meanwhile -- Her wheeling King --
Trailed -- slow -- along the Orchards --
His haughty -- spangled Hems --
Leaving a new necessity!
The want of Diadems!
The Morning -- fluttered -- staggered --
Felt feebly -- for Her Crown --
Her unanointed forehead --
Henceforth -- Her only One!
我睁不开双目
而你已在那儿守候
我清晨的灵魂和供奉：
因此我们必得那一日为媒。
我的主，什么是一颗心？
银的，金的，还是宝石，
或是星星，彩虹，还是这些事物
中的一份或所有这一切在一体？
我的主，什么是一颗心？
你会这样凝视它，求欢，
为它倾注所有的才艺，
好像你别无他事所乐？
其实人的全部财产
以其丰富伺服于你：
他既未开天也未辟地，
但研究因他而在的它们，而不是他。
传授你的爱让我了解；
这新的光，此刻我所见，
将显现神迹和创造者：
在一束光中我将攀登向你。
Mattins
George Herbert
I cannot ope mine eyes,
But thou art ready there to catch
My morning-soul and sacrifice:
Then we must needs for that day make a match.
My God, what is a heart?
Silver, or gold, or precious stone,
Or star, or rainbow, or a part
Of all these things or all of them in one?
My God, what is a heart?
That thou should'st it so eye, and woo,
Pouring upon it all thy art,
As if that thou had’st nothing else to do?
Indeed man's whole estate
Amounts (and richly) to serve thee:
He did not heav'n and earth create,
Yet studies them, not him by whom they be.
Teach me thy love to know;
That this new light, which now I see,
May both the work and workman show:
Then by a sun-beam I will climb to thee.
艾米莉-狄金森：太阳—刚刚触及清晨
太阳—刚刚触碰清晨—
清晨—欢喜之物—
假设他已来逗留—
生命将整个是春天！
她感觉自己愈加超越—
一个升起的—缥缈的事物！
自此—对她来说—何等的节日！
同时—她轮驰的国王—
辙行—缓慢地—沿着果园—
他傲然的—闪闪的衣褶—
留下一个崭新的需求！
对王冠的渴求！
清晨—振翼—蹒跚—
感到无力—因她的王冠—
她未受膏的额头—
自此—她的唯一！
The Sun -- just touched the Morning
Emily Dickinson
The Sun -- just touched the Morning --
The Morning -- Happy thing --
Supposed that He had come to dwell --
And Life would all be Spring!
She felt herself supremer --
A Raised -- Ethereal Thing!
Henceforth -- for Her -- What Holiday!
Meanwhile -- Her wheeling King --
Trailed -- slow -- along the Orchards --
His haughty -- spangled Hems --
Leaving a new necessity!
The want of Diadems!
The Morning -- fluttered -- staggered --
Felt feebly -- for Her Crown --
Her unanointed forehead --
Henceforth -- Her only One!
