The Lost Mistress
The Lost Mistress
by Robert Browning
All's over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes?
Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter
About your cottage eaves!
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that, to-day;
One day more bursts them open fully
---You know the red turns grey.
To-morrow we meet the same then, dearest?
May I take your hand in mine?
Mere friends are we,---well, friends the merest
Keep much that I resign:
For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
Though I keep with heart's endeavour,---
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
Though it stay in my soul for ever!---
Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
Or only a thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Or so very little longer!
失去的戀人
羅伯特?勃朗寧
那么，一切都過去了。難道實情的滋味
真有預想的那么難咽？
聽，麻雀在你家村居的屋檐周圍
唧唧喳喳地道著晚安。
今天我發現葡萄藤上的芽苞
毛茸茸地，鼓了起來；
再一天時光就會把嫩葉催開，瞧；
暗紅正浙漸轉為灰白。
最親愛的。明天我們能否照樣相遇？
我能否仍舊握住你的手？
“僅僅是朋友，”好吧，我失去的許多東西，
最一般的朋友倒還能保留：
你烏黑澄澈的眼睛每一次閃爍
我都永遠銘刻在心；
我心底也永遠保留著你說
“愿白雪花回來”的聲音！
但是，我將只說一般朋友的語言，
或許再稍微強烈一絲；
我握你的手，將只握禮節允許的時間
或許再稍微長一霎時！
羅伯特·勃朗寧簡介
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