How Rich That Forehead's Calm Expanse
How Rich That Forehead's Calm Expanse
by William Wordsworth
How rich that forehead's calm expanse!
How bright that heaven-directed glance!
--Waft her to glory, winged Powers,
Ere sorrow be renewed,
And intercourse with mortal hours
Bring back a humbler mood!
So looked Cecilia when she drew
An Angel from his station;
So looked; not ceasing to pursue
Her tuneful adoration!
But hand and voice alike are still;
No sound 'here' sweeps away the will
That gave it birth: in service meek
One upright arm sustains the cheek,
And one across the bosom lies--
That rose, and now forgets to rise,
Subdued by breathless harmonies
Of meditative feeling;
Mute strains from worlds beyond the skies,
Through the pure light of female eyes,
Their sanctity revealing!
靜中深廣的情態
威廉·華茲華斯
她眉宇舒展，靜中深廣的情態：
脫俗的顧盼，有何等奪目的光彩！
——鼓動著羽翼的天使，
請把她引上光輝的境地。
不然再度襲來的憂傷、
紛紛擾擾的塵世交往，
將會貶損她的形象！
塞西麗亞那時就是這般儀態
才把天使從他的崗位招來；
就是這般神態，她娓娓地
繼續道出她的膜拜。
現在纖手與柔聲一同靜止，
聲音本來發自虔誠的心志，
現在要以靜默把心志保持；
溫順地提起一只手托著臉龐，
另一只手橫放在胸脯上；
在屏息著的參悟的和諧中，
靜中凝止著一切的動：
一種無聲的音樂來自天外，
通過女性眼睛的純潔的柔輝，
把它們的神圣顯露出來。
（謝耀文 譯）
詩人簡介威廉·華茲華斯簡介
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