洛威尔经典诗歌欣赏

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洛威尔经典诗歌欣赏

  经典洛威尔经典诗歌:The Pleiades

  By day you cannot see the sky

洛威尔经典诗歌欣赏

  For it is up so very high.

  You look and look, but it's so blue

  That you can never see right through.

  But when night comes it is quite plain,

  And all the stars are there again.

  They seem just like old friends to me,

  I've known them all my life you see.

  There is the dipper first, and there

  Is Cassiopeia in her chair,

  Orion's belt, the Milky Way,

  And lots I know but cannot say.

  One group looks like a swarm of bees,

  Papa says they're the Pleiades;

  But I think they must be the toy

  Of some nice little angel boy.

  Perhaps his jackstones which to-day

  He has forgot to put away,

  And left them lying on the sky

  Where he will find them bye and bye.

  I wish he'd come and play with me.

  We'd have such fun, for it would be

  A most unusual thing for boys

  To feel that they had stars for toys!

  经典洛威尔诗歌欣赏:The Fruit Shop

  Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown,

  High-waisted, girdled with bright blue;

  A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown

  She pluckered her little brows into

  As she picked her dainty passage through

  The dusty street. "Ah, Mademoiselle,

  A dirty pathway, we need rain,

  My poor fruits suffer, and the shell

  Of this nut's too big for its kernel, lain

  Here in the sun it has shrunk again.

  The baker down at the corner says

  We need a battle to shake the clouds;

  But I am a man of peace, my ways

  Don't look to the killing of men in crowds.

  Poor fellows with guns and bayonets for shrouds!

  Pray, Mademoiselle, come out of the sun.

  Let me dust off that wicker chair. It's cool

  In here, for the green leaves I have run

  In a curtain over the door, make a pool

  Of shade. You see the pears on that stool --

  The shadow keeps them plump and fair."

  Over the fruiterer's door, the leaves

  Held back the sun, a greenish flare

  Quivered and sparked the shop, the sheaves

  Of sunbeams, glanced from the sign on the eaves,

  Shot from the golden letters, broke

  And splintered to little scattered lights.

  Jeanne Tourmont entered the shop, her poke

  Bonnet tilted itself to rights,

  And her face looked out like the moon on nights

  Of flickering clouds. "Monsieur Popain, I

  Want gooseberries, an apple or two,

  Or excellent plums, but not if they're high;

  Haven't you some which a strong wind blew?

  I've only a couple of francs for you."

  Monsieur Popain shrugged and rubbed his hands.

  What could he do, the times were sad.

  A couple of francs and such demands!

  And asking for fruits a little bad.

  Wind-blown indeed! He never had

  Anything else than the very best.

  He pointed to baskets of blunted pears

  With the thin skin tight like a bursting vest,

  All yellow, and red, and brown, in smears.

  Monsieur Popain's voice denoted tears.

  He took up a pear with tender care,

  And pressed it with his hardened thumb.

  "Smell it, Mademoiselle, the perfume there

  Is like lavender, and sweet thoughts come

  Only from having a dish at home.

  And those grapes! They melt in the mouth like wine,

  Just a click of the tongue, and they burst to honey.

  They're only this morning off the vine,

  And I paid for them down in silver money.

  The Corporal's widow is witness, her pony

  Brought them in at sunrise to-day.

  Those oranges -- Gold! They're almost red.

  They seem little chips just broken away

  From the sun itself. Or perhaps instead

  You'd like a pomegranate, they're rarely gay,

  When you split them the seeds are like crimson spray.

  Yes, they're high, they're high, and those Turkey figs,

  They all come from the South, and Nelson's ships

  Make it a little hard for our rigs.

  They must be forever giving the slips

  To the cursed English, and when men clips

  Through powder to bring them, why dainties mounts

  A bit in price. Those almonds now,

  I'll strip off that husk, when one discounts

  A life or two in a nigger row

  With the man who grew them, it does seem how

  They would come dear; and then the fight

  At sea perhaps, our boats have heels

  And mostly they sail along at night,

  But once in a way they're caught; one feels

  Ivory's not better nor finer -- why peels

  From an almond kernel are worth two sous.

  It's hard to sell them now," he sighed.

  "Purses are tight, but I shall not lose.

  There's plenty of cheaper things to choose."

  He picked some currants out of a wide

  Earthen bowl. "They make the tongue

  Almost fly out to suck them, bride

  Currants they are, they were planted long

  Ago for some new Marquise, among

  Other great beauties, before the Chateau

  Was left to rot. Now the Gardener's wife,

  He that marched off to his death at Marengo,

  Sells them to me; she keeps her life

  From snuffing out, with her pruning knife.

  She's a poor old thing, but she learnt the trade

  When her man was young, and the young Marquis

  Couldn't have enough garden. The flowers he made

  All new! And the fruits! But 'twas said that

  he

  Was no friend to the people, and so they laid

  Some charge against him, a cavalcade

  Of citizens took him away; they meant

  Well, but I think there was some mistake.

  He just pottered round in his garden, bent

  On growing things; we were so awake

  In those days for the New Republic's sake.

  He's gone, and the garden is all that's left

  Not in ruin, but the currants and apricots,

  And peaches, furred and sweet, with a cleft

  Full of morning dew, in those green-glazed pots,

  Why, Mademoiselle, there is never an eft

  Or worm among them, and as for theft,

  How the old woman keeps them I cannot say,

  But they're finer than any grown this way."

  Jeanne Tourmont drew back the filigree ring

  Of her striped silk purse, tipped it upside down

  And shook it, two coins fell with a ding

  Of striking silver, beneath her gown

  One rolled, the other lay, a thing

  Sparked white and sharply glistening,

  In a drop of sunlight between two shades.

  She jerked the purse, took its empty ends

  And crumpled them toward the centre braids.

  The whole collapsed to a mass of blends

  Of colours and stripes. "Monsieur Popain, friends

  We have always been. In the days before

  The Great Revolution my aunt was kind

  When you needed help. You need no more;

  'Tis we now who must beg at your door,

  And will you refuse?" The little man

  Bustled, denied, his heart was good,

  But times were hard. He went to a pan

  And poured upon the counter a flood

  Of pungent raspberries, tanged like wood.

  He took a melon with rough green rind

  And rubbed it well with his apron tip.

  Then he hunted over the shop to find

  Some walnuts cracking at the lip,

  And added to these a barberry slip

  Whose acrid, oval berries hung

  Like fringe and trembled. He reached a round

  Basket, with handles, from where it swung

  Against the wall, laid it on the ground

  And filled it, then he searched and found

  The francs Jeanne Tourmont had let fall.

  "You'll return the basket, Mademoiselle?"

  She smiled, "The next time that I call,

  Monsieur. You know that very well."

  'Twas lightly said, but meant to tell.

  Monsieur Popain bowed, somewhat abashed.

  She took her basket and stepped out.

  The sunlight was so bright it flashed

  Her eyes to blindness, and the rout

  Of the little street was all about.

  Through glare and noise she stumbled, dazed.

  The heavy basket was a care.

  She heard a shout and almost grazed

  The panels of a chaise and pair.

  The postboy yelled, and an amazed

  Face from the carriage window gazed.

  She jumped back just in time, her heart

  Beating with fear. Through whirling light

  The chaise departed, but her smart

  Was keen and bitter. In the white

  Dust of the street she saw a bright

  Streak of colours, wet and gay,

  Red like blood. Crushed but fair,

  Her fruit stained the cobbles of the way.

  Monsieur Popain joined her there.

  "Tiens, Mademoiselle,

  c'est le General Bonaparte,

  partant pour la Guerre!"

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