第九首
我能有给予什么的权利么？
让你坐进涟涟泪瀑之帘，
咸得像我一样？要么，就听叹息度日如年，
再从我嘴里听脱离关系了？
顾惜不食人间烟火的罕见微笑，
就为你所有恳求？噢，我惧怕连累，
不可能公正！我们不是同类，
可以是，爱人；哦，我认，我伤心动摇。
像我这种，礼物的赐予者，必须要
带着吝啬地算计。走吧，唉！
我不会让我的尘埃弄脏你的紫袍，
不会呼出我的霉气玷污你的威尼斯杯，
也不会给予你任何爱…… 那样不公道，
心爱的人，我只能爱，爱你！让爱流逝，回味……
译注：１. 紫袍，象征穿着者是皇室或高官。
２. 盐，咸，风趣的, 刺激的，辛辣的。
IX.
CAN it be right to give what I can give ?
To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles, which fail to live
For all thy adjurations ? O my fears,
That this can scarce be right ! We are not peers,
So to be lovers ; and I own and grieve
That givers of such gifts as mine are, must
Be counted with the ungenerous. Out, alas !
I will not soil thy purple with my dust,
Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice-glass,
Nor give thee any love … which were unjust.
Beloved, I only love thee ! let it pass.
第十首
可是，爱，纯粹地爱，真地美好，
值得接受。火，是光明，
不论燃烧着的是圣殿，还是麻布，同样辉煌颐景！
也不论燃烧着的是香柏木或是草芥，一样闪焰照耀。
喔，爱，是火：当我不由得倾吐着
“我爱你”……上帝饶恕我！……“我爱你！”……在你眼里
我顿时美化了的，变得真正荣耀瑰丽
新的道德光辉从我的
面庞射向你。没有卑视
在爱中，哪怕爱的是最低下最微贱的
热爱上帝的生命，上帝认可了这样的事。
噢！我多么，我发觉，越过鄙陋的我的
面容，我，照亮了自己，竟昭示
爱，给造物润色增鲜的伟大手笔。
X.
YET, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,
Let temple burn, or flax ! And equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed.
And love is fire : and when I say at need
_I love thee_ … mark ! … _I love thee !_ …in thy sight
I stand transfigured, glorified aright,
With conscience of the new rays that proceed
Out of my face toward thine. There's nothing low
In love, when love the lowest : meanest creatures
Who love God, God accepts while loving so.
And what I _feel_, across the inferior features
Of what I _am_, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.
第十一首
那么，所以，要是爱的可以是沙漠荒芜，
我不是完全不足取。苍白面皮
如你见，颤抖的膝
承担不起心的重负。
疲惫吟游歌手的生命曾经缚系
奥纳斯攀顶，喔，如今，难使笛声缭萦
媲美林中鸣唱夜莺
忧伤的旋律！……怎么要在意
这些事情？噢，心爱的人啊，那多明晰，
我不值得你看中，也不值得你把希望寄予，
然而，由于我，爱你，我得见
优雅仁慈表白，源自一样地爱意，
还要生活于爱，只是徒劳无益……
祝福你，但拒绝见你面。
译注：夜莺，歌喉婉转的歌手，男高音者，声调好听的演说者。
XI.
AND therefore if to love can be desert,
I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale
As these you see, and trembling knees that fail
To bear the burden of a heavy heart,
This weary minstrel-life that once was girt
To climb Aornus, and can scarce avail
to pipe now 'gainst the woodland nightingale
A melancholy music ! …why advert
To these things ? O Beloved, it is plain
I am not of thy worth nor for thy place :
And yet because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love and yet in vain, …
To bless thee yet renounce thee to thy face.
第十二首
真地呀，我好自豪，这真实的爱啊，
呵，从胸间涌上眉梢，
足够大的红宝石为我加冕封号，
吸引众人眼睛，证实内心估价……
连着爱，我所有价值都到极限，
我不会再爱其他的了，除非你说
要指给我一个榜样，教我怎么做。
从第一次，你热情真挚眼睛，同我交接契衔，
那，被称作爱的爱啊，竟至于，我不能谈及
爱，当做我拥有的一件好事显烁。
你让心灵拽撕掉我所有的懦弱和衰闭，
把我放进金色王座——
那么，我爱，（喔，灵魂，我必须顺从依栖！）
只为你，我唯一的，爱哦！
XII.
INDEED this very love which is my boast,
And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Doth crown me with a ruby large enow
To draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost, …
This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost,
I should not love withal, unless that thou
Hadst set me an example, shown me how,
When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed,
And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own.
Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne, ---
And that I love, (O soul, I must be meek !)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
第十三首
哦，你要把我塑造成演说家么？
怀着你的爱，涌起话语滔滔不绝，
举出火炬，直到风声强劲，猛觉
刮我们脸。你要把光亮照射到每一个人么？——
我放弃你的脚步吧，不能再
训练我的手把持情绪，离开自己
那么远……我……我会带给你考验打击，
言辞间，爱，藏在我伸手可及之外。
不仅如此，假使我沉寂的女性特质
对你信赖，激发性爱——
我却不能支持，无论怎样恳誓。
喔，撕碎我生命的外衣，言简意赅，
无所畏惧，刺耳地决然刚直，
惟恐一次接触，心就把它的不幸传带。
XIII.
AND wilt thou have me fashion into speech
The love I bear thee, finding words enough,
And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,
Between our faces, to cast light on each ? ---
I drop it at thy feet. I cannot teach
My hand to hold my spirit so far off
From myself … me … that I should bring thee proof
In words, of love hid in me out of reach.
Nay, let the silence of my womanhood
Commend my woman-love to thy belief, ---
Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,
And rend the garment of my life, in brief,
By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,
Lest one touch of this heart, convey its grief.
第十四首
如果，你一定要爱我，就任由爱不存在一样，
仅仅出于对爱的兴趣来爱，不要叙述
“我爱她，为了她的微笑……她的模样……她谈吐
文雅的方式……还有她别出心裁的思想
坠我入网，当然，带来感觉微妙，
安逸舒爽，沉浸这日子”——
喔，那些是爱们自己的事，心爱的人，可致
改变，或为你改变——爱，亦如生产铸造，
可能亦仅半制成，也可以不爱我了，而为
你自己的爱，怜悯擦干我的泪脸。
始终受你慰藉的人可能会
忘了哭泣，错失不远处你的爱怜。
可是，若为爱的爱好来爱，你一直都可以欣慰
爱，从始至终，爱至永远……
XIV.
IF thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
“ I love her for her smile … her look … her way
Of speaking gently, … for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day ” ---
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee, --- and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
Since one might well forget to weep who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby.
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may’st love on through love's eternity.
第十五首
不要责怪我，恳求你，我戴得紧紧
太冷静幽戚面具，在你面前；
我们俩，显得如此两样，太阳不能同时顾全
照射眉眼和发鬓。
对我，你看起来毫无怀疑蒂芥，
像视蜜蜂在水晶罩里一样——
自从悲哀把我关进爱的超凡保险箱，
要展开翅膀飞进外面世界
就成最难承受的挫败，即使我奋力
拼搏。而对你……我把你看着……
看着，爱之外，爱终级，
临界倾听，记忆超涉……
仿佛坐立高峰，茫然凝神，瞰悉
越过苦海巨流辛酸奇泽。
XV.
ACCUSE me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine ;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same sunlight on our brow and hair.
On me thou lookest with no doubting care,
As on a bee shut in a crystalline,---
For sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most impossible failure, if I strove
To fail so. But I look on thee … on thee …
Beholding, besides love, the end of love,
Hearing oblivion beyond memory …
As one who sits and gazes, from above,
Over the rivers to the bitter sea.
第十六首
可是，由于你如此克敌制胜，
由于你愈加高贵，像一个君主，
能成功抵御我敬畏和责辱。
你的紫袍围绕我，以致心要涨高涌迸，
太紧拢靠你的心，从此我知道
独处多么恐慌，征服怎么可以，试探
验证贵族，促成事物完善
提升，脱离确定无疑低潮：
喔，像一个被剑击中的兵彦
会喊“我的奋斗结束在这儿了”，砰然坠逝，
即使如此，心爱的人，我终于重塑创建
在我疑惑的尘世尽头！要是，你，诱使我出仕，
一声令下，我只好克服沉陷，
促成更多你的爱，放大我的价值。
XVI.
AND yet, because thou overcomest so,
Because thou art more noble and like a king,
Thou canst prevail against my fears and fling
Thy purple round me, till my heart shall grow
Too close against thine heart, henceforth to know
How it shook when alone. Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and complete a thing
In lifting upward as in crushing low :
And, as a soldier struck down by a sword
May cry, “ My strife ends here, ” and sink to earth
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my doubt ! If _thou_ invite me forth,
I rise above abasement at the word.
Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth.
第十七首
我的诗人，你可能碰触所有音符，
上帝置于前后堂，
建立和取缔惯常
奔涌世界喧嚣的，妙曲若隐若现吐露
在纯粹宁静的空中。药疗音乐
矫正答复
男性渺茫的效用，你可以倾注，
从此透进他们耳朵。上帝意决
将你投进这结果，而将我，等你！
怎么，最亲爱的人，你拥有我，要做非常之用么？
做一种希望，欢乐地唱？……或做一种极其
伤心的回忆，融汇你的歌？……
做一阕渐变，在那歌声中……以示胜利或盼企？
或一座坟墓，置于歌声休止？……选嘞。
XVII.
MY poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
God set between His After and Before,
And strike up and strike off the general roar
Of the rushing worlds, a melody that floats
In a serene air purely. Antidotes
Of medicated music, answering for
Mankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pour
From thence into their ears. God's will devotes
Thine to such ends, and mine to wait on thine !
How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use ?
A hope, to sing by gladly ? …… or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to interfuse ? ……
A shade, in which to sing … of palm or pine ?
A grave, on which to rest from singing ? …Choose. | 