716叶芝
《THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE》
I will arise and go now,and go to Innisfree1,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnght's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
W.B.YEATS.
注释译文
词句注释
1、茵尼斯弗利岛的原型是爱尔兰民间传说中的一个仙岛斯拉哥（Lough Gill, Sligo），叶芝将斯拉哥那美丽的风景搬到茵尼斯弗利岛。亦有“inner’s free”之双关。
白话译文
茵尼斯弗利岛
我就要起身走了，到茵尼斯弗利岛，
造座小茅屋在那里，枝条编墙糊上泥；
我要养上一箱蜜蜂，种上九行豆角，
独住在蜂声嗡嗡的林间草地。
那儿安宁会降临我，安宁慢慢儿滴下来，
从晨的面纱滴落到蛐蛐歇唱的地方；
那儿半夜闪着微光，中午染着紫红光彩，
而黄昏织满了红雀的翅膀。
我就要起身走了，因为从早到晚从夜到朝
我听得湖水在不断地轻轻拍岸；
不论我站在马路上还是在灰色人行道，
总听得它在我心灵深处呼唤。
（飞白译）
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
翻译：
《基督重临》
在向外扩张的旋体上旋转呀旋转，
猎鹰再也听不见主人的呼唤。
一切都四散了，再也保不住中心，
世界上到处弥漫着一片混乱，
血色迷糊的潮流奔腾汹涌，
到处把纯真的礼仪淹没其中；
优秀的人们信心尽失，
坏蛋们则充满了炽烈的狂热。
无疑神的启示就要显灵，
无疑基督就将重临。
基督重临！这几个字还未出口，
刺眼的是从大记忆来的巨兽：
荒漠中，人首狮身的形体，
如太阳般漠然而无情地相觑，
慢慢挪动腿，它的四周一圈圈，
沙漠上愤怒的鸟群阴影飞旋。
黑暗又下降了，如今我明白
二十个世纪的沉沉昏睡，
在转动的摇篮里做起了恼人的恶梦，
何种狂兽，终于等到了时辰，
懒洋洋地倒向圣地来投生？
《丽达与天鹅》，据希腊神话传说，众神之王宙斯化作天鹅与人间少女丽达交配。后来丽达生的女儿海伦因其绝色引起特洛伊的十年战争；战后希腊联军凯旋之时，丽达的另一个女儿克吕泰涅斯特拉又谋杀了她的丈夫、希腊联军统帅阿伽门农。诗人从他的神秘主义体系出发，认为宙斯与丽达产生了希腊文明，但也产生了激烈的冲突和巨大的灾难。
Leda And The Swan
A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
猝然一攫：巨翼犹兀自拍动，
扇着欲坠的少女，他用黑蹼
摩挲她双股，含她的后颈在喙中，
且拥她捂住的乳房在他的胸脯。
惊骇而含糊的手指怎能推拒，
她松弛的股间，那羽化的宠幸？
白热的冲刺下，那扑倒的凡躯
怎能不感到那跳动的神异的心？
腰际一阵颤抖，从此便种下
败壁颓垣，屋顶和城楼焚毁，
而亚加曼侬死去。就这样被抓，
被自天而降的暴力所凌驾，
她可曾就神力汲神的智慧，
乘那冷漠之喙尚未将她放下？
（余光中 译）
《驶向拜占庭》
THAT is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come[1]
1
那地方可不是老人们待的。青年人
互相拥抱着，树上的鸟类
——那些垂死的世代——在歌吟。
有鲑鱼的瀑布，有鲭鱼的大海，
鱼、肉、禽整个夏天都赞扬不停
一切被养育、降生和死亡者。
他们都迷恋于种种肉感的音乐，
忽视了不朽的理性和杰作。
2
一个老年人不过是卑微的物品，
披在一根拐杖上的破衣裳，
除非是他那颗灵魂拍手来歌吟，
为人世衣衫的破烂②而大唱；
世界上没什么音乐院校不诵吟
自己的辉煌的里程碑作品，
因此上我驶过汪洋和大海万顷，
来到了这一个圣城拜占庭。
3
啊，上帝圣火中站立的圣徒们，
如墙上金色的镶嵌砖所显示，
请走出圣火来，参加旋体的运行，
成为教我灵魂歌唱的导师。
消毁掉我的心，它执迷于六欲七情，
捆绑在垂死的动物身上而不知！
它自己的本性；请求你把我收进
那永恒不朽的手工艺精品③。
4
一旦我超脱了自然，我再也不要
从任何自然物取得体形，
而是要古希腊时代金匠所铸造，
锻金的和镀金那样的体型，
使那个昏昏欲睡的皇帝清醒；
或把我放在那金枝上歌吟④，
歌唱那过去和未来或者是当今，
唱给拜占庭的老爷太太听。
（袁可嘉 译）[1]
诗歌注释
①叶芝认为公元6世纪查士丁尼丰帝统治下的拜占庭王朝是贵族文化的代表，那时精神与物质、政教与文艺、个人与社会得到了和谐的统一。
②“人世衣衫的破烂”指短暂的人世生活。
③叶芝认为人工的东西（如工艺品）、理性的东西（如哲学、诗歌）是不朽的，自然生长的事物（如人类和生巨物）则是暂存的。
④古代工艺品中有金铸的树，上有小鸟鸣唱。[1]
