玲珮玎珰

Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you planned:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had.

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

Goblin Market

(Excerpt)

Golden head by golden head,

Like two pigeons in one nest

Folded in each other’s wings,

They lay down in their curtained bed:

Like two blossoms on one stem,

Like two flakes of new-fall’n snow,

Like two wands of ivory

Tipped with gold for awful kings.

Moon and stars gazed in at them,

Wind sang to them lullaby,

Lumbering owls forebore to fly,

Not a bat flapped to and fro

Round their rest:

Cheek to cheek and breast to breast

Locked together in one rest.

小妖精集市

（节录）

金发的头伴着金发的头，

好像一个巢里的两只鸽子

折叠合拢在彼此的翅膀，

她们平躺在遮帘的床：

好像一只梗上两朵花儿盛放，

好像新雪里两片雪花飘扬，

好像两支给威严王者的象牙权杖

顶上有金子包装。

月亮和星星将她们凝望

风儿对她们把摇篮曲轻轻唱，

笨拙迟缓的夜枭不敢飞翔，

蝙蝠们也不再鼓翼复来去往

围在她们的憩所旁：

脸颊对脸颊，面庞对面庞

一样憩息，两人成双。

这首童话寓言诗写的是两姐妹受小妖精诱惑迷失了回家路途，后来两姐妹互相扶持终于安全返家。这一段写两姐妹迷途中相拥而憩的场景。

第七首

“After Death” 1862

The curtains were half drawn; the floor was swept

And strewn with rushes; rosemary and may

Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay,

Where, through the lattice, ivy-shadows crept.

He leaned above me thinking that I slept

And could not ear him; but I heard him say:

“Poor child, poor child” and as he turned away

Came a deep silence, and I knew he wept…..

He did not love me living; but once dead

He pitied me; and very sweet it is

To know he is still warm though I am cold.

死后

（1862）

帘幕半降；地板已拭

灯芯草；迷迭香和山楂花散落

厚厚地铺满我躺歇的床具，

此处，穿过窗格，常春藤爬满成荫。

他俯瞰我，认为我睡着了

我无法侧耳倾听，但是我听到他说：

“可怜的孩子，可怜的孩子” 当他转身

接之以深沉的沉默，我知道他在抽泣…

我活着时他没有爱过我；但是一旦死去

他对我心生怜惜；我觉得甜蜜涌起

当知道，我僵冷时他仍有融融暖意。

每次读这首诗都让我有哽咽的感觉，后面几行又忘不掉。