英语诗歌:The Jaguar
Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut. Fatigued with indolence, tiger and lion Lie still as the sun. The bo
英语诗歌:Love in the Lab
Jo Shapcott One day the technicians touched souls as they exchanged everyday noises above the pipette. Then they knew that the state of molecules was not humdrum. The inscriptions on the specimen jars which lined the room in racks took fire in their
英语诗歌:A Musical Instrument
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly
英语诗歌:The Folly Of Being Comforted
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) One that is ever kind said yesterday 'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time can but make it easier to be wise Though now it seems impossible, and so Patience is al
英语诗歌:The Fascination of What’s Difficult
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt That must, as if it had not holy blood Nor on Olymp
英语诗歌:To Waken an Old Lady
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind -- But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested -- the snow is covered
英语诗歌:This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
英语诗歌:Love Songs in Age
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) She kept her songs, they took so little space, The covers pleased her: One bleached from lying in a sunny place, One marked in circles by a vase of water, One mended, when a tidy fit had seized her, And coloured, by her dau
英语诗歌:Cut Grass
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Cut grass lies frail: Brief is the breath Mown stalks exhale. Long, long the death It dies in the white hours Of young-leafed June With chestnut flowers, With hedges snowlike strewn, White lilac bowed, Lost lanes of Queen A
英语诗歌:Poem
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) As the cat climbed over the top of the jamcloset first the right forefoot carefully then the hind stepped down into the pit of the empty flowerpot
英语诗歌:A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns(17591796) O my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve is like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. As fair thou art, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' t
英语诗歌:Spring And All (Excerpts)
William Carlos Williams By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing
英语诗歌:The last Night that She lived
Emily Dickinson The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying -- this to Us Made Nature different We noticed smallest things -- Things overlooked before By this great light upon our Minds Italicized -- as 'twere. As We went ou
英语诗歌:For the Union Dead-Robert Lowell
Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam. The old South Boston Aquarium stands In a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales. The airy tanks are dry. Once my nose crawled like a snail on th
英语诗歌:Churning Day
Seamus Heaney A thick crust, coarse-grained as limestone rough-cast, hardened gradually on top of the four crocks that stood, large pottery bombs, in the small pantry. After the hot brewery of gland, cud and udder, cool porous earthenware fermented
