詠黃水仙

Robert Herrick

佚 名（譯）

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attain'd his noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the even-song;

And, having pray'd together, we

Will go with you along.

美麗的黃水仙，我們淚眼相看

你凋謝得太匆匆；

清早升起的太陽

還沒有達到他的中午。

逗留，逗留，

直至匆匆的白日

唯有奔向了

晚禱；

并且，在一起禱告，我們

將和你一起走。

We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

我們如你一樣擁有短暫時光，

我們匆匆如春；

快速成長后迎接凋零，

如你或任何事物。

我們死去

如你度過時光那樣，干枯

消逝，

像夏日的雨一樣；

又如珍珠般的朝露，

再也找不到。

羅伯特·赫里克（Robert Herrick，1591—1674），17世紀英國最杰出的“騎士派”抒情詩人之一，出生于倫敦，就讀于劍橋大學圣約翰學院，獲得文學碩士學位。《詠黃水仙》這首詩是一首典型的借物抒情的詩。 詩人如一位智者對花而歌，似乎在傾訴對水仙的愛憐，同時又借黃水仙凋謝得太快，感嘆人生匆忙，青春與美麗短暫易逝。 詩句感情真摯。