She walks in beauty
原文:
She walks in beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes,
and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright meet
in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express how pure,
how dear their dwelling place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
评价:这首小诗描写的是诗人在舞会上邂逅的一位美貌夫人,是篇感情细腻、幽思袅袅、脍炙人口的抒情短章。
There be none of Beauty's daughters"
There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing
The waves lie still and gleaming
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o'er the deep
Whose breast is gently heaving
As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion
Like the swell of summer's ocean.
A poem by Lord Byron ...
翻译:没有一位美丽的女子,
能拥有象你一般的魔力:
仿佛美妙的音乐传过水面,
是你动人的声音,
这声音的魔力,
仿佛能令大海凝滞,
在和风中似梦似幻,
午夜的月亮摇曳,
其光亮将他深深吸引,
就象熟睡的孩子,
因此精灵在他面前鞠躬,
聆听并且仰慕,
充满温柔的情感,
就象夏日海洋的巨浪。
乔治•戈登•拜伦
她走在美的光彩中
一
她走在美的光彩中,象夜晚
皎洁无云而且繁星漫天;
明与暗的最美妙的色泽
在她的仪容和秋波里呈现:
耀目的白天只嫌光太强,
它比那光亮柔和而幽暗。
二
增加或减少一份明与暗
就会损害这难言的美。
美波动在她乌黑的发上,
或者散布淡淡的光辉
在那脸庞,恬静的思绪
指明它的来处纯洁而珍贵。
三
呵,那额际,那鲜艳的面颊,
如此温和,平静,而又脉脉含情,
那迷人的微笑,那容颜的光彩,
都在说明一个善良的生命:
她的头脑安于世间的一切,
她的心充溢着真纯的爱情!