小诗

Lord Byron and Shelley, as well as a host of lesser figures, devoted much time to the closet drama, in a signal that the verse tragedy was already in a state of obsolescence.

拜伦和雪莱，以及一系列较小的数字，投入了大量的时间来壁橱话剧，在一个信号，即诗的悲剧已经在一个国家的陈旧老化。

All of the little fragments of a poem must work together in a unified fashion to culminate in something refreshing and new.

所有的小片段，一首诗必须共同努力，在一个统一的方式来达到高潮，在一些令人耳目一新的新的。

There is one man of genius, who has done much for this philosophy of life, whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated;--I mean Emanuel Swedenborg. The most imaginative of men, yet writing with the precision of a mathematician, he endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an attempt, of course, must have difficulty, which no genius could surmount. But he saw and showed the connection between nature and the affections of the soul. He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world. Especially did his shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms, and has given in epical parables a theory of insanity, of beasts, of unclean and fearful things.

我们是否确切的明晓这一切的意义：小桶中的食物，平锅里的牛奶，街道上的民谣；从船上来的消息；眼睛的一瞥；身体的结构和姿态；——告诉我这一切的究竟；向我展示隐藏在其中的最高精神原由，它的崇高外现；这原由总是隐密其踪迹于自然的边缘和远端；请让我洞悉每一生活细节中充盈的两极律，这使它们与永恒律并列而陈；还有那修理作坊，那铧犁和那织机工，这一切，光影舞动其上并为诗歌咏唱着——因此世界不再是索然无味的杂物堆积或储藏室，它有型有序；这里不再有无足轻重也没有惶惑；只有纯粹的设计，它连接了遥远的高峰和最深的低谷，为它们注入生命。

At that epoch he had just been made, while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of Paris.

他到小比克布斯修女们的礼拜堂里来参加日课唱圣诗，那是常有的事。

He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.

露丝专注地望着他，驰骋着想像，猜测着是什么力量扭曲了他的灵魂，使得像他那样一个精力过人的青年把时间浪费在写小说和写诗上面，而那是注定了只能平庸或失败的。

Poet, Chloe Seccombe:"I wonder where the possum in our playground is hiding today, whether the tawny frogmouth has stayed, I worry if he'll become road kill, or if he is smart enough to survive."

不论是全球暖化议题，还是当地品种濒临绝迹，这些小诗人都在比赛中，将他们的想法化为文字。获胜的诗将会编为选集发行，而作家们也被邀请来动物园朗读诗词。

The letter is like a passage from one of Shakespeare's sonnets, transposed to a minor key[26b].

那信听着就像一首莎士比亚商籁诗中的一段，被转为小调式似的 [26b]。

I put a note there that directed her to the nightstand, where I'd left a small box.

我在那首诗的旁边贴了一张纸条，告诉她去床头几那边，我在那儿放了一个小盒子。

Living in this little cottage, even you can make some poems and pass them down to generations.

住在这样的小村舍里，就是你也能做上几首诗传给下一代再下一代

Trees Page 2 of 21 By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree ; A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast ; A tree that looks at God all day , And lifts her leafy arms to pray ; Anest that may in Smmer wear Anest of robins in her hair ; Upon whose bosow has lain , Who intimately lives with rain .

作者通过对树的赞美来讴歌造物的神奇。小树自得天机自长成，于不经意中已经使得诗人的才情在大自然的佳作前自叹弗如。想来，我永远找不到一首诗像树一样美妙。树的饥饿双唇紧偎大地把甜美的乳汁尽情吮吸。树整天仰望着上帝，祈祷时，举起枝叶扶苏的双臂。夏天，树还会把知更雀的小巢 Page 3 of 21 戴在自己发梢。雪花在树的怀抱里冬眠，树和雨露更是亲密无间。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失