胡適還在1924年和1925年，先後翻譯了英國作家哈代的兩首詩《別離》《月光裡》。胡適譯此詩末段，不過抄錯第一字，是By，非In。他知道出處是John Donne的
Present in Absence，不過他只記得詩題是"
Absence"。他癮的末段之標點也與下述的不同。
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'By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In some close corner of my brain: There I embrace and kiss her; And so I ...
English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 176. Present in Absence |
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| John Donne (1573–1631) |
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| ABSENCE, hear thou my protestation | |
| Against thy strength, | |
| Distance, and length; | |
| Do what thou canst for alteration: | |
| For hearts of truest mettle | 5 |
| Absence doth join, and Time doth settle. | |
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| Who loves a mistress of such quality, | |
| His mind hath found | |
| Affection’s ground | |
| Beyond time, place, and all mortality. | 10 |
| To hearts that cannot vary | |
| Absence is present, Time doth tarry. | |
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| My senses want their outward motion | |
| Which now within | |
| Reason doth win, | 15 |
| Redoubled by her secret notion: | |
| Like rich men that take pleasure | |
| In hiding more than handling treasure. | |
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| By absence this good means I gain, | |
| That I can catch her, | 20 |
| Where none can watch her, | |
| In some close corner of my brain: | |
| There I embrace and kiss her; | |
| And so enjoy her and none miss her. | |
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胡適譯： 別離
不見也有不見的好處：
我倒可以見著她，
不怕有人監著她，
在我腦海的深窈處；
我可以抱著她，親她的臉；
雖然不見，抵得長相見。
pp.119-120
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pp. 125-27
| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 152. In the Moonlight |
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| By Thomas Hardy |
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| “O LONELY workman, standing there | |
| In a dream, why do you stare and stare | |
| At her grave, as no other grave there were? | |
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| “If your great gaunt eyes so importune | |
| Her soul by the shine of this corpse-cold moon, | 5 |
| Maybe you’ll raise her phantom soon!” | |
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| “Why, fool, it is what I would rather see | |
| Than all the living folk there be; | |
| But alas, there is no such joy for me!” | |
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| “Ah—she was one you loved, no doubt, | 10 |
| Through good and evil, through rain and drought, | |
| And when she passed, all your sun went out?” | |
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| “Nay: she was the woman I did not love, | |
| Whom all the others were ranked above, | |
| Whom during her life I thought nothing of.” | |
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胡適說：「我讀了覺得它好玩，遂譯了出來。」這首詩確實有味，胡適到底還是個有趣味之人。另一首《月光裡》卻是別一種情境了。詩以擬兩人在墳地的談話交織。一個問這麼大一片墳地，你為何只看著一個墳墓，不怕看出鬼來。另一聲音回答：我寧願見伊的鬼。
胡適譯： 月光裡
『喂，孤寂的工人，你為什麼
癡癡地站在這兒瞪著伊的墳墓，
好像偌大的墳園只葬著伊一個？』
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『萬一你那雙絕望的眼睛，
在這淒冷的月光裡惱怒了伊的魂靈，
萬一伊的鬼走了出來，可不要嚇死了人？』
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『你懂什麼！那可不趁了我的心願！
我寧願見伊的鬼，不願看誰的面。
可憐呵，我那會有那樣的奇緣。』
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『這樣看來，伊一定是你戀愛的人，
安樂與患難變不了你的心;
如今伊死了，你便失去了你的光明? 』
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『不是的：伊不曾受到過我愛情的供養;
我當時總覺得別人都比伊強;
可憐伊在日，我從不曾把伊放在心上!』
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