在我身上你或许会看见秋天 | 莎士比亚
威廉·莎士比亚(W.WilliamShakespeare,1564.4.23—1616.4.23)是欧洲文艺复兴时期最重要的作家,杰出的戏剧家和诗人,他在欧洲文学史上占有特殊的地位,被喻为“人类文学奥林匹克山上的宙斯”。他亦跟古希腊三大悲剧家艾思奇利斯(Aeschylus)、索福克里斯(Sophocles)及幼里匹蒂斯(Euripides)合称戏剧史上四大悲剧家。十四行诗第七十三首
在我身上你或许会看见秋天,
当黄叶,或尽脱,或只三三两两
挂在瑟缩的枯枝上索索抖颤——
荒废的歌坛,曾是鸟儿合唱的地方。
在我身上你或许会看见暮霭,
它在日落后向西方徐徐消退:
黑夜,死的化身,渐渐把它赶开,
严静的安息笼住纷纭的万类。
在我身上你或许会看见余烬,
它在青春的寒灰里奄奄一息,
在惨淡灵床上早晚总要断魂,
给那滋养过它的烈焰所销毁。
看见了这些,你的爱就会加强,
因为他转瞬要辞你溘然长往。
梁宗岱 译
That time of year thou may’st in me behold
When yellow leaves,or none,or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang,
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
When by and by black night doth take away,
Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie.
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This you perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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