the works of edgar allan poe-5-第39部分
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That keeps; from the dreamer;
*The moonbeam away …
Bright beings ! that ponder;
With half closing eyes;
On the stars which your wonder
Hath drawn from the skies; 'in the original; this
line is slightly out of alignment'
Till they glance thro' the shade; and
Come down to your brow
Like eyes of the maiden
Who calls on you now …
Arise ! from your dreaming
In violet bowers;
To duty beseeming
These star…litten hours …
And shake from your tresses
Encumber'd with dew
The breath of those kisses
That cumber them too …
(O ! how; without you; Love !
Could angels be blest ?)
Those kisses of true love
That lull'd ye to rest !
Up ! … shake from your wing
Each hindering thing :
The dew of the night …
It would weigh down your flight ;
And true love caresses …
O ! leave them apart !
* In Scripture is this passage … 〃The sun shall not harm thee by day;
nor the moon by night。〃 It is perhaps not generally known that the moon;
in Egypt; has the effect of producing blindness to those who sleep with
the face exposed to its rays; to which circumstance the passage evidently
alludes。
They are light on the tresses;
But lead on the heart。
Ligeia ! Ligeia !
My beautiful one !
Whose harshest idea
Will to melody run;
O ! is it thy will
On the breezes to toss ?
Or; capriciously still;
*Like the lone Albatross;
Incumbent on night
(As she on the air)
To keep watch with delight
On the harmony there ?
Ligeia ! whatever
Thy image may be;
No magic shall sever
Thy music from thee。
Thou hast bound many eyes
In a dreamy sleep …
But the strains still arise
Which _thy_ vigilance keep …
The sound of the rain
Which leaps down to the flower;
And dances again
In the rhythm of the shower …
員he murmur that springs
From the growing of grass
* The Albatross is said to sleep on the wing。
?I met with this idea in an old English tale; which I am now unable
to obtain and quote from memory : … 〃The verie essence and; as it were;
springe…heade; and origine of all musiche is the verie pleasaunte sounde
which the trees of the forest do make when they growe。〃
Are the music of things …
But are modell'd; alas ! …
Away; then my dearest;
O ! hie thee away
To springs that lie clearest
Beneath the moon…ray …
To lone lake that smiles;
In its dream of deep rest;
At the many star…isles
That enjewel its breast …
Where wild flowers; creeping;
Have mingled their shade;
On its margin is sleeping
Full many a maid …
Some have left the cool glade; and
* Have slept with the bee …
Arouse them my maiden;
On moorland and lea …
Go ! breathe on their slumber;
All softly in ear;
The musical number
They slumber'd to hear …
For what can awaken
An angel so soon
* The wild bee will not sleep in the shade if there be moonlight。
The rhyme in this verse; as in one about sixty lines before; has an
appearance of affectation。 It is; however; imitated from Sir W。 Scott; or
rather from Claud Halcro … in whose mouth I admired its effect :
O ! were there an island;
Tho' ever so wild
Where woman might smile; and
No man be beguil'd; &c。
Whose sleep hath been taken
Beneath the cold moon;
As the spell which no slumber
Of witchery may test;
The rythmical number
Which lull'd him to rest ?〃
Spirits in wing; and angels to the view;
A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean thro';
Young dreams still hovering on their drowsy flight …
Seraphs in all but 〃Knowledge;〃 the keen light
That fell; refracted; thro' thy bounds; afar
O Death ! from eye of God upon that star:
Sweet was that error … sweeter still that death …
Sweet was that error … ev'n with _us_ the breath
Of science dims the mirror of our joy …
To them 'twere the Simoom; and would destroy …
For what (to them) availeth it to know
That Truth is Falsehood … or that Bliss is Woe ?
Sweet was their death … with them to die was rife
With the last ecstacy of satiate life …
Beyond that death no immortality …
But sleep that pondereth and is not 〃to be〃 …
And there … oh ! may my weary spirit dwell …
*Apart from Heaven's Eternity … and yet how far from Hell !
* With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell; where
men suffer no punishment; but yet do not attain that tranquil and even
happiness which they suppose to be characteristic of heavenly enjoyment。
Un no rompido sueno …
Un dia puro … allegre … libre
Quiera …
Libre de amor … de zelo …
De odio … de esperanza … de rezelo。 … _Luis Ponce de Leon_。
Sorrow is not excluded from 〃Al Aaraaf;〃 but it is that sorrow which
the living love to cherish for the dead; and which; in some minds;
resembles the delirium of opium。 The passionate excitement of Love and the
buoyancy of spirit attendant upon intoxication are its less holy pleasures
… the price of which; to those souls who make choice of 〃Al Aaraaf〃 as
their residence after life; is final death and annihilation。
What guilty spirit; in what shrubbery dim;
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn ?
But two : they fell : for Heaven no grace imparts
To those who hear not for their beating hearts。
A maiden…angel and her seraph…lover …
O ! where (and ye may seek the wide skies over)
Was Love; the blind; near sober Duty known ?
*Unguided Love hath fallen … 'mid 〃tears of perfect moan。〃
He was a goodly spirit … he who fell :
A wanderer by moss…y…mantled well …
A gazer on the lights that shine above …
A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love :
What wonder ? For each star is eye…like there;
And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair …
And they; and ev'ry mossy spring were holy
To his love…haunted heart and melancholy。
The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a mountain crag; young Angelo …
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky;
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie。
Here sate he with his love … his dark eye bent
With eagle gaze along the firmament:
Now turn'd it upon her … but ever then
It trembled to the orb of EARTH again。
〃Iante; dearest; see ! how dim that ray !
How lovely 'tis to look so far away !
* There be tears of perfect moan
Wept for thee in Helicon。… _Milton。_
She seem'd not thus upon that autumn eve
I left her gorgeous halls … nor mourn'd to leave。
That eve … that eve … I should remember well …
The sun…ray dropp'd; in Lemnos; with a spell
On th'Arabesque carving of a gilded hall
Wherein I sate; and on the draperied wall …
And on my eye…lids … O the heavy light !
How drowsily it weigh'd them into night !
On flowers; before; and mist; and love they ran
With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan :
But O that light! … I slumber'd … Death; the while;
Stole o'er my senses in that lovely isle
So softly that no single silken hair
Awoke that slept … or knew that it was there。
The last spot of Earth's orb I trod upon
* Was a proud temple call'd the Parthenon …
More beauty clung around her column'd wall
員han ev'n thy glowing bosom beats withal;
And when old Time my wing did disenthral
Thence sprang I … as the eagle from his tower;
And years I left behind me in an hour。
What time upon her airy bounds I hung
One half the garden of her globe was flung
Unrolling as a chart unto my view …
Tenantless cities of the desert too !
Ianthe; beauty crowded on me then;
And half I wish'd to be again of men。〃
〃My Angelo! and why of them to be ?
A brighter dwelling…place is here for thee …
* It was entire in 1687 … the most elevated spot in Athens。
?Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love。 … _Marlowe。_
And greener fields than in yon world above;
And women's loveliness … and passionate love。〃
〃But; list; Ianthe! when the air so soft
*Fail'd; as my pennon'd spirit leapt aloft;
Perhaps my brain grew dizzy … but the world
I left so late was into chaos hurl'd …
Sprang from her station; on the winds apart;
And roll'd; a flame; the fiery Heaven athwart。
Methought; my sweet one; then I ceased to soar
And fell … not swiftly as I rose before;
But with a downward; tremulous motion thro'
Light; brazen rays; this golden star unto!
Nor long the measure of my falling hours;
For nearest of all stars was thine to ours …
Dread star! that came; amid a night of mirth;
A red D鎑alion on the timid Earth。
〃We came … and to thy Earth … but not to us
Be given our lady's bidding to discuss:
We came; my love; around; above; below;
Gay fire…fly of the night we come and go;
Nor ask a reason save the angel…nod
_ She_ grants to us; as granted by her God …
But; Angelo; than thine grey Time unfurl'd
Never his fairy wing o'er fairier world !
Dim was its little disk; and angel eyes
Alone could see the phantom in the skies;
When first Al Aaraaf knew her course to be
Headlong thitherward o'er the starry sea …
But when its glory swell'd upon the sky;
As glowing Beauty's bust beneath man's eye;
* Pennon … for pinion。 … _Milton_。
We paus'd before the heritage of men;
And thy star trembled … as doth Beauty then !〃
Thus; in discourse; the lovers whiled away
The night that waned and waned and brought no day。
They fell : for Heaven to them no hope imparts
Who hear not for the beating of their hearts。
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TAMERLANE
KIND solace in a dying hour!
Such; father; is not (now) my theme …
I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly pride hath revell'd in …
I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope … that fire of fire!
It is but agony