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the works of edgar allan poe-5-第45部分

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Stands she not nobly and alone?
Falling … her veriest stepping…stone
Shall form the pedestal of a throne …
And who her sovereign? Timour … he
    Whom the astonished people saw
Striding o'er empires haughtily
    A diadem'd outlaw …

O! human love! thou spirit given;
On Earth; of all we hope in Heaven!
Which fall'st into the soul like rain
Upon the Siroc wither'd plain;
And failing in thy power to bless
But leav'st the heart a wilderness!
Idea! which bindest life around
With music of so strange a sound
And beauty of so wild a birth …
Farewell! for I have won the Earth!

When Hope; the eagle that tower'd; could see
    No cliff beyond him in the sky;
His pinions were bent droopingly …
    And homeward turn'd his soften'd eye。
'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a sullenness of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun。
That soul will hate the ev'ning mist;
So often lovely; and will list
To the sound of the coming darkness (known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who; in a dream of night; _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh。

What tho' the moon … the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon;
Her smile is chilly … and her beam;
In that time of dreariness; will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death。
And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest one 
For all we live to know is known;
And all we seek to keep hath flown …
Let life; then; as the day…flower; fall
With the noon…day beauty … which is all。

I reach'd my home … my home no more …
    For all had flown who made it so …
I pass'd from out its mossy door;
    And; tho' my tread was soft and low;
A voice came from the threshold stone
Of one whom I had earlier known …
    O! I defy thee; Hell; to show
    On beds of fire that burn below;
    A humbler heart … a deeper wo …

Father; I firmly do believe …
    I _know_ … for Death; who comes for me
        From regions of the blest afar;
Where there is nothing to deceive;
        Hath left his iron gate ajar;
    And rays of truth you cannot see
    Are flashing thro' Eternity 
I do believe that Eblis hath
A snare in ev'ry human path …
Else how; when in the holy grove
I wandered of the idol; Love;
Who daily scents his snowy wings
With incense of burnt offerings
From the most unpolluted things;
Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven
Above with trelliced rays from Heaven
No mote may shun … no tiniest fly
The light'ning of his eagle eye …
How was it that Ambition crept;
    Unseen; amid the revels there;
Till growing bold; he laughed and leapt
    In the tangles of Love's very hair?



1829。

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     TO HELEN

HELEN; thy beauty is to me
    Like those Nicean barks of yore;
That gently; o'er a perfumed sea;
    The weary way…worn wanderer bore
    To his own native shore。

On desperate seas long wont to roam;
    Thy hyacinth hair; thy classic face;
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
    To the glory that was Greece;
And the grandeur that was Rome。

Lo ! in yon brilliant window…niche
    How statue…like I me thee stand;
The agate lamp within thy hand!
    Ah; Psyche; from the regions which
    Are Holy…land !

1831。

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THE VALLEY OF UNREST

_Once_ it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars;
Trusting to the mild…eyed stars;
Nightly; from their azure towers;
To keep watch above the flowers;
In the midst of which all day
The red sun…light lazily lay。
_Now_ each visiter shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness。
Nothing there is motionless …
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude。
Ah; by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah; by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily; from morn till even;
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye …
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave: … from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops。
They weep: … from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems。



1831。

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       ISRAFEL*

IN Heaven a spirit doth dwell
    〃Whose heart…strings are a lute;〃
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel;
And the giddy stars (so legends tell)
Ceasing their hymns; attend the spell
    Of his voice; all mute。

Tottering above
    In her highest noon
    The enamoured moon
Blushes with love;
    While; to listen; the red levin
    (With the rapid Pleiads; even;
    Which were seven;)
    Pauses in Heaven

And they say (the starry choir
    And all the listening things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
    By which he sits and sings …
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings。

* And the angel Israfel; whose heart…strings are a lut; and who has the
sweetest voice of all God's creatures。 … KORAN。

But the skies that angel trod;
    Where deep thoughts are a duty …
Where Love's a grown up God …
    Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
    Which we worship in a star。

Therefore; thou art not wrong;
    Israfeli; who despisest
An unimpassion'd song:
To thee the laurels belong
    Best bard; because the wisest!
Merrily live; and long!

The extacies above
    With thy burning measures suit …
Thy grief; thy joy; thy hate; thy love;
    With the fervor of thy lute …
    Well may the stars be mute!

Yes; Heaven is thine; but this
    Is a world of sweets and sours;
    Our flowers are merely … flowers;
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
    Is the sunshine of ours。

If I could dwell
Where Israfel
    Hath dwelt; and he where I;
He might not sing so wildly well
    A mortal melody;
While a bolder note than this might swell
    From my lyre within the sky。

1836。

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      TO … …

                1

The bowers whereat; in dreams; I see
    The wantonest singing birds
Are lips … and all thy melody
    Of lip…begotten words …

                 2

Thine eyes; in Heaven of heart enshrin'd
    Then desolately fall;
O! God! on my funereal mind
    Like starlight on a pall …

                  3

Thy heart … _thy_ heart! … I wake and sigh;
    And sleep to dream till day
Of truth that gold can never buy …
    Of the trifles that it may。

1829。

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TO …

I HEED not that my earthly lot

    Hath…little of Earth in it

That years of love have been forgot

In the hatred of a minute:

I mourn not that the desolate

    Are happier; sweet; than I;

But that you sorrow for my fate

Who am a passer…by。

1829。



TO THE RIVER 

FAIR river! in thy bright; clear flow
    Of crystal; wandering water;
Thou art an emblem of the glow
        Of beauty … the unhidden heart …
        The playful maziness of art
In old Alberto's daughter;

But when within thy wave she looks …
        Which glistens then; and trembles …
Why; then; the prettiest of brooks
        Her worshipper resembles;
For in my heart; as in thy stream;
    Her image deeply lies …
His heart which trembles at the beam
    Of her soul…searching eyes。

1829。

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        SONG

         ~~~~~~~~~~~~

I SAW thee on thy bridal day …
    When a burning blush came o'er thee;
Though happiness around thee lay;
    The world all love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light
    (Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
   Of Loveliness could see。

That blush; perhaps; was maiden shame …
    As such it well may pass …
Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame
    In the breast of him; alas!

Who saw thee on that bridal day;
    When that deep blush _would_ come o'er thee;
Though happiness around thee lay;
    The world all love before thee。



1827。

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SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

                            1

Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb…stone …
Not one; of all the crowd; to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy:

                            2

Be silent in that solitude
    Which is not loneliness … for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
    In life before thee are again
In death around thee …  and their will
Shall then overshadow thee: be still。

                           3

For the night … tho' clear … shall frown …
And the stars shall look not down;
From their high thrones in the Heaven;
With light like Hope to mortals given …
But their red orbs; without beam;
To thy weariness shall seem
As a burning and a fever
Which would cling to thee for ever :

                          4

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish …
Now are visions ne'er to vanish …
From thy spirit shall they pass
No more … like dew…drop from the grass:

                         5

The breeze … the breath of God … is still …
And the mist upon the hill
Shadowy … shadowy … yet unbroken;
Is a symbol and a token …
How it hangs upon the trees;
A mystery of mysteries! …

1827。



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