From an Evening Walk Addressed To a Young Lady
From an Evening Walk Addressed To a Young Lady
by William Wordsworth
How pleasant, as the sun declines, to view
The spacious landscape change in form and hue!
Here, vanish, as in mist, before a flood
Of bright obscurity, hill, lawn, and wood;
There, objects, by the searching beams betrayed,
Come forth, and here retire in purple shade;
Even the white stems of birch, the cottage white,
Soften their glare before the mellow light;
The skiffs, at anchor where with umbrage wide
Yon chestnuts half the latticed boat-house hide,
Shed from their sides, that face the sun's slant beam,
Strong flakes of radiance on the tremulous stream:
Raised by yon travelling flock, a dusty cloud
Mounts from the road, and spreads its moving shroud;
The shepherd, all involved in wreaths of fire,
Now shows a shadowy speck, and now is lost entire.
Into a gradual calm the breezes sink,
A blue rim borders all the lake's still brink;
There doth the twinkling aspen's foliage sleep,
And insects clothe, like dust, the glassy deep:
And now, on every side, the surface breaks
Into blue spots, and slowly lengthening streaks;
Here, plots of sparkling water tremble bright
With thousand thousand twinkling points of light;
There, waves that, hardly weltering, die away,
Tip their smooth ridges with a softer ray;
And now the whole wide lake in deep repose
Is hushed, and like a burnished mirror glows,
Save where, along the shady western marge,
Coasts, with industrious oar, the charcoal barge.
湖鄉夕陽
威廉·華茲華斯
多令人神往！看著西下的斜陽
如何變幻這片風光的情調和形象。
這兒，光影里的山巒、草地和樹林，
仿佛在濃霧里消隱；
那兒，搜索著的光線,
使物象全都眉目宛然；
這兒，紫色的濃蔭，
似把許多東西沉浸；
白色的小屋和樺樹枝條，
在柔光中顯得豐姿窈窕；
栗樹的婆娑密影，
遮住艇庫的屋頂；
小舟從側面接得斜陽光線，
再投到顫抖著的湖面，幻出波光璀璨；
那邊羊群揚起云一般的塵土，
在路上升騰，漫向遠處；
牧人仿佛被卷入光環火影，
時而消失，時而現出模糊身形。
和風漸漸靜下去了，
平靜的湖鑲上了藍邊；
閃爍著的白楊葉子睡了，
微塵似的昆蟲布滿如鏡的湖面；
一會兒周遭湖面碎成藍玉碧珠千頃，
慢慢地光點又變成長長的色線晶瑩；
這兒成了塊塊瓊田，
閃動著無盡的奇光異焰；
那兒弱不自勝的漣漪輕輕，
波面像被柔和的光線撫平；
終于，整個寬廣的湖悄然歇息，
像一輪明鏡似的清光四溢；
只有西邊樹影下的炭船獨攬清輝，
沿著岸邊，槳兒不停地劃動湖水。
（謝耀文 譯）
詩人簡介威廉·華茲華斯簡介
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