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刘宁: 勃朗宁夫人抒情十四行诗 (修订版) (序、第1-8首)

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摘要: <p align=center>勃朗宁夫人抒情十四行诗 <p align=center>Elizabeth Barrett Browning Selected Poems

勃朗宁夫人抒情十四行诗

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Selected Poems

作者:伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁(英)翻译:刘宁(中国)

  伊丽莎白. 巴雷特. 勃朗宁,十九世纪英国著名女诗人,1850年匿名出版的抒情十四行诗《葡萄牙人十四行诗集》是英国文学史上的珍品,其美丽动人,甚至超过莎士比亚的十四行诗。全集共有四十四首,是勃朗宁公爵夫妇爱情生活的真实写照。

  伊丽莎白生于1806年3月6日。十五岁时,不幸骑马跌损脊椎,致下肢瘫痪24年。39岁时,结识小她6岁的诗人罗伯特. 勃朗宁。她克服了疾病和暴虐父亲的专横反对,与他私奔意大利,并于1846年结婚。从此,爱的激情,暖流,使她瘫痪的肢体重新站立起来,恢复行走。爱,不仅给造物润色增鲜,更为生命照亮了道路。这段佳话,成为爱与意志激励人类战胜艰难困苦的典范。

  他们共同度过15年幸福生活。1861年6月29日,伯朗宁夫人偎依在丈夫胸前睡去,幸福地永别了她的罗伯特。

  这部诗集,用最简朴的字词,诉说最复杂的心声,读之令人心疼,涌泪,亦不失激昂向上的精神。

  这些诗歌,充满激情,充满美丽的意象和憧憬,常常令我眼睛发亮,心潮澎湃。

  这些诗歌,流露着人性的渴望,困苦的无奈,痛苦的挣扎,情感宣泄如奔腾的洪流,如喷发的火山,波澜壮阔,热烈奔放。

  我为翻译过程激动,喘息,哭泣,精美的字句,蕴藏的灵气,喜悦,伤悲,冷凝……都是心灵在诉说。

  我甚至有一种感觉,这优美的诗篇,一直在等待,一直在等待一个理解她的人,能把她的美用汉语的形式奉献给读者,而我,就是那个被等待的人。我想,勃朗宁夫人在天有灵亦会为译本欣慰而笑的。

  作品充满隐喻,机智,幽默。译作力求确切表述,再现原著风貌,只在韵脚有适当调整。译注对部分词汇的寓意作了提示。

  让我们倾听,让我们静下心来,仔细倾听……我相信读者,能从字里行间听见娓娓动听的旋律,看到美丽细腻的画面,也能像我一样被情感的洪峰卷入,认识这个平凡而又热情、调皮、缠绵、含蓄、狡诘、辛辣、风趣,从忧伤和痛苦中奋起的活泼精灵。

  愿读者能从美的享受中获得人生启迪。

  深深为这句感动——

        上帝赠予羞怯以人类最美好的梦想!

刘宁 代序

说明:出版定稿。原文取自古版本《葡萄牙人十四行诗集》影印本。  ——刘宁

第一首

有一次,我想起,最早的希腊诗人曾经咏唱
甜美年代,宝贵,期盼的年华,
慈爱地每一个交递,分发
给人间礼物,无论对幼弱还是年长。

噢,当我眩迷于他那古老的韵惑,
看见,穿过泪眼渐近的魅幻歌阕,
欢快,悲哀,忧伤的岁月……
那些,我自己的生命,因翻卷交替而猛挫。

阴影掠过,立刻惊动了我,
那哭泣,多么莫测神秘的状态
来到身后,揪紧我发撮;

一个声音克制低语,尽管我抗争依在……
“猜,现在,谁逮住了你?”——“死!”我说。可是,那儿,
银铃般回音……“哈,不是死,是爱!”

译注:最早的希腊诗人,指里奥克利特斯,是写出所知最早集成诗的希腊诗人。

I.

I THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young :

And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, …
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung

A shadow across me.  Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ;

And a voice said in mastery while I strove, …
“Guess now who holds thee ? ” --- “ Death ! ” I said.  But, there,
The silver answer rang … “ Not Death, but love. ”

 

第二首

可是,仅仅只有三个人,在整个上帝的世界
听见,你说那句话;上帝自己,站在你这
发言者一边;倾听的我!以及答复你的
我们中那个……那个,是上帝!……施放了诅诫,

有关惩罚,多么黑的幽暗遮住我视野。
我看你的眼睛——噢,即使我已死,
死亡的负累压着,也还意味着是
不完全的排斥。“不”,比一切更糟的音节

来自上帝。噢,上帝!
没有人能用世俗的诽谤把我们离间,
也没有迷惘能将我们改变,没有风暴能迫使我们屈膝:

我们的手要相触,为了所有山巅;——
永恒伴随我们流逝,直至终极。
我们发誓,要更快握紧,为了满天星愿。


II.

BUT only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside
Thee speaking and me listening ! and replied
One of us … _that_ was God ! … and laid the curse

So darkly on my eyelids as to amerce
My sight from seeing thee, --- that if I had died,
The deathweights, placed there, would have signified 
Less absolute exclusion.  “ Nay ” is worse

From God than from all others, O my friend !
Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend :

Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars ;---
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.

 
第三首

不同,我们,不同,噢,高贵的人儿!
我们的存在价值不同列,命运不同步。
我们那两颗幸运星相互
惊羡,在他们运行的交叉时刻

顺便碰触对方翅膀。你,想到你,是个
嫔妃们华丽社交中的嘉宾尤物,
带着成百双明亮眼睛注视下的赌注,
甚至比泪,更能摆布我地,扮演你的

首席音乐家的角色。噢,你?怜慕
我,像是通过格子窗瞻视
一个疲惫,憔悴,恍惚的歌手……吟唱着穿过一路

黑暗,倚靠着一树柏枝?
涂在你头上的是圣油——而我的,是清露——
噢,死,应该能掘平吧,使差异达成一致。

 译注:柏树枝,用作哀悼的标志。

 

III.

UNLIKE are we, unlike, O princely Heart !
Unlike our uses, and our destinies.
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart

Their wings in passing.  Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears, even, can make mine, to play thy part

Of chief musician.  What hast _thou_ to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer ? … singing through

The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree ?
The chrism is on thine head, --- on mine, the dew, ---
And Death must dig the level where these agree.

 

第四首

你受过邀请,得去一些宫殿华宅,
极优雅崇高诗篇的歌手!为所爱,
宾客们要打乱舞步,好转来
仰慕你那富有意义的丰唇,翘首以待。

而你,抬起这里的门闩,不是太亵渎
你的手么?你竟会想,屈尊委质的
让你的音符飘落,不为人知地
层层叠起金色,充满我门户?

往上看,窗扉坏了么,
蝙蝠和枭在屋顶筑巢酝酿!
我的蟋蟀蛐蛐叫了,回应你曼陀林挑拨。

安静!别唤出回声加深荒凉
考磨!有一个音在里面躲缩,
哀伤……你坚持要唱……孤独,冷霜。

 
IV.

THOU hast thy calling to some palace floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems ! where
The dancers will break footing from the care
Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.

And dost thou lift this house's latch too poor
For hand of thine ? and canst thou think and bear
To let thy music drop here unaware
In folds of golden fulness at my door ?

Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof !
My cricket chirps against thy mandolin.

Hush ! call no echo up in further proof
Of desolation ! there's a voice within
That weeps … as thou must sing … alone, aloof.

 

第五首

我庄严举起沉重的心,
像从前伊莱克特拉埋葬的尸灰壶,
紧盯你眼睛,我把那尸灰倾覆
在你脚下,目睹,谨

堆起许多隐藏于我的悲伤。
喔,猩红火苗,野性朦胧,燃烧
穿透苍白灰烬。假使你用脚嘲弄地要
把它们踏熄,将会彻底黑荒。

可能也好,也许。要不,换作
你等着,在我旁边,等风来吹,
把灰尘扬起……那样,你头上的殊荣桂冑,

噢,我的爱呵,就不会如此庇护你了,
决不会有一丝火星会烧焦,会烤碎
下面的发。好啊,离开呀,离远一些!走!

译注:伊莱克特拉,希腊神话中阿伽门农与克吕泰墨斯特拉的女儿,因为父亲报仇,而与弟弟奥瑞斯特斯合谋,杀死了母亲和母亲的情夫埃古斯托斯。


V.

I LIFT my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Electra her sepulchral urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn
The ashes at thy feet.  Behold and see

What a great heap of grief lay hid in me,
And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn
Through the ashen greyness.  If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to darkness utterly,

It might be well perhaps.  But if instead
Thou wait beside me for the wind to blow
The grey dust up, … those laurels on thine head,

O My Beloved, will not shield thee so,
That none of all the fires shall scorch and shred
The hair beneath.  Stand farther off then !  Go.

 

第六首

离开我。可我又愈加觉得,我会坚持不渝
站在你的阴影中,从今以后,再不忍
独立于我的门
以纯一的生命,我会左右自己跟去

心灵的习惯。也不能抬起我的手臂
在阳光下,像从前那样安详,
不必忍受感知情殇……
你对手掌的触碰。广漠大地

注定要分离我们,让你心驻释,使
脉搏双倍地跳动。我,多么想有
我多么梦想,有,有你。像葡萄酒汁

应当回味它自己的葡萄,当我,为自己祈求
上帝,他听见的,是你的名字,
看见的,是我眼中,两个人的泪流。

 
VI.

Go from me.  Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow.  Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command

The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore, …
Thy touch upon the palm.  The widest land

Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double.  What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine

Must taste of its own grapes.  And when I sue
God for myself, He hears that name of thine,
And sees within my eyes, the tears of two.

 

第七首

整个世界面貌变啦,我想啊,
自从第一次听到你心灵的步履,
还在变,噢,还在,在我身边;像是他们偷偷喜逾
我至可怕的边涯,

显而易见的死亡边涯,我在那儿,想要沉沦的人儿
被爱提起来,授予整个
生命,新韵律的生命。这杯施舍
上帝为了考验给的,我欣然喝了,

并颂扬它的甘美,香甜,因为有你靠近。
故乡的名字,天空,变得邈隐,
到处是你,要不就会是,这儿,那儿,无论远近;

哦,这……这琴瑟,这歌……昨天的爱,
(这歌声天使知道)唯一的爱,
因为你的名字一直在激发他们概怀。


VII.

THE face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me ; as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink

Of obvious death, where I who thought to sink
Was caught up into love and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm.  The cup of dole
God gave for baptism, I am fain to drink,

And praise its sweetness, sweet, with thee anear.
The names of country, heaven, are changed away
For where thou art or shalt be, there or here ;

And this … this lute and song … loved yesterday,
 ( The singing angels know ) are only dear,
Because thy name moves right in what they say.

 

第八首

我能回报你什么!噢,自由豪迈
高贵的赐予者……带来色泽紫金
不染尘垢,诉不尽的你的心,
放在墙外,

好让我随意拿取,或放弃。
是意想不到地慷慨?我冷淡,
不领情么,为这极芜繁
高昂的礼物,全无馈偿之意?

别这样,别冷漠!——那不然,就是很可怜的替身!
上帝就知道!时常流淌的泪珠儿
来自我生命的格调。噢,离弃吧,如此死沉

灰暗的材料,不适合
为你的头做枕,
去远一些吧!就让它当做垫踹儿。


VIII.

WHAT can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, … who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall,

For such as I to take, or leave withal,
In unexpected largesse ?  Am I cold,
Ungrateful, that for these most manifold
High gifts, I render nothing back at all ?
 
Not so.  Not cold ! --- but very poor instead !
Ask God who knows ! for frequent tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead

And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
Go farther !  Let it serve to trample on.

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