Christopher Marlowe died on May 30th 1593, under suspicious circumstances. Taking the few known hard facts about his life, Rodney Bolt argues that most accounts are mistaken. Instead, Marlowe lives for years on the run from his enemies, writing "Hamlet" and other plays, and getting Shakespeare, an opportunist with little literary talent, to market them for him
2016年5月30日 星期一
2016年5月25日 星期三
"I Strove With None"/ Life and Death By Walter Savage Landor 1849
2001年9月，高齡90歲的楊絳捐贈北京清華大學成立「好讀書獎學金」 (可能是夫婦的稿費捐出) 。以英國詩人蘭德（Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864）的小詩《生與死》（Life and Death）幾明志--請注意此短詩的標點符號，我看過中文引用幾個版本：
採用 Wiki的：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Savage_Landor
In 1849 he wrote a well-known epitaph for himself on his 74th birthday.
In Tom Wolfe's "A man in full", Landor's poem "I Strove with None" is mentioned in a discussion in location 8,893 (Kindle).
Landor's "I Strove with None" is also quoted in Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge."
In Josephine Pullein-Thompson's "Pony Club Team" the second novel in her "West Barsetshire Pony Club" series, Landor's "I Strove With None" is quoted by both Noel Kettering and Henry Thornton[17]
Landor's 'I Strove with None' forms the chorus of the Zatopeks' song Death and the Hobo from their album, Damn Fool Music.
Life and Death ——W.S.Landor 楊絳 譯
- Nature I loved, and, next to nature, Art;
- It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
我和誰都不爭，和誰爭我都不屑；
我愛大自然， 其次就是藝術；
我雙手烤著，生命之火取暖；
火萎了，我也準備走了。
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
2016年5月24日 星期二
The enduring appeal of Pride and Prejudice's Mr Darcy
Love & Friendship, a new Jane Austen adaptation, is a satire of the tropes and narratives that the novelist has become known for—not least the kind of romance between Elizabeth Bennet and "the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world", Mr Darcy, in Pride and Prejudice. What is it about his character that has lingered so long in the public imagination? From The Economist’s 1843 magazine archive
2016年5月22日 星期日
Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope 1717
'How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d' - Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope who was born on this day in 1688.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d' - Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope who was born on this day in 1688.
Eloisa to Abelard - Poetry Foundation
www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174158
From Abelard it came,. And Eloisa yet must kiss the name. Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd,. Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, ...vestal
ADJECTIVE
NOUN
2016年5月21日 星期六
Mary Anning. Jane Austen 的小說描述過的地方：英國Lyme Regis 地方及小說家 John Fowles的地方簡史和其二百多年 Belmont House
Mary Anning. Jane Austen 的小說描述過的地方：英國Lyme Regis 地方及小說家 John Fowles的地方簡史和其二百多年 Belmont House
http://hcplace.blogspot.tw/2013/08/lyme-regis-john-fowles-belmont-house.html
2016年5月8日 星期日
Love in a Life by Robert Browning / Epilogue to Asolando By Robert Browning
改1999年(1999/04)之舊作：雖然忠樸過世多年。我們這些世人繼續尋覓…..
（1998）十月十日，從永和出來，秋高氣爽。…走經台大校園，與一些樹打招呼。從新生南路側門出校園。有一少年騎一輛新機車；他的同伴，新車造型、設計，極盡"疼愛、撫摸" 、"品評"之能事。這，讓我知道自已不年青了，因為我已沒有騎美車雲遊天下之志。
進辦公室，寫點東西，從網路上知道到你的網站周年慶，並有「承諾的樂趣」。由於台大校內海報故意把「五四」戲寫成「舞肆」，想起名著《五四運動史》作者周策縱先生，他才富五車，在文選《棄園文粹》中第九九則，談王靜安的「…頻摸索，且攀躋，千門萬戶是耶非？人問總是堪疑處，唯有茲疑不可疑。」
周先生說，此《鷓鴣天》甚莊嚴深遠。「此種無盡追求之意境，比 靜安 自己新云古今之成大事業大學問者必須之三種境界，皆更高深。」
（鷓鴣天
閣道風飄五丈旗，層樓突兀與雲齊，空餘明月連錢列，不照紅葩倒井批。
頻摸索，且攀躋，千門萬戶是耶非？人間總是堪疑處，唯有茲疑不可疑。）
周先生並以白郎寧（Robert Browning 1812-83）《有終生的愛》(Love in a Life)──詩和之。我轉錄來作為我們這些中文網站開拓者的賀禮：
１
一間房又一間房，
我找遍了這院子，
我們同住在這裡。
心啊，一點也別怕，因為，心，你會找到她，
下次，會找到她本人！──不是她所留下來的
簾內的煩惱，床上的芳香！
那壁上的花環，經她拂拭後又開花了：
那兒明鏡對著她翠翹的搖顫也閃光了。
２
但是日子不斷消磨，
還是一條門又一條門？
我永遠摸索著新的命運──
從廂房到正廳，找遍了這大廈。
老是這麼個緣法！我進來時她偏出去了。
我尋了一整天，──別管吧！
可是你知道，天快黑了，──還有那麼多的房間要探索，
那麼多的私屋要尋找，那麼多的幽室要瀆求！
----
Love in a Life
by Robert Browning
I
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her,
Next time, herself! -not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew, -
Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.
II
Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune -
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre.
Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest, -who cares?
But 'tis twilight, you see, -with such suites to explore,
Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!
《勃朗寧詩選‧阿索朗多結尾詩》Epilogue to Asolando By Robert Browning
Robert Browning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
勃朗宁诗选
内容简介 · · · · · ·
这是首次在中国出版的勃朗宁诗选。
19世纪英国诗人勃朗宁是世界一流的重要诗人，他在浪漫主义衰落后另辟蹊径，开创一代诗风，作为戏剧独白诗大师，对现代诗产生了巨大影响勃朗宁的诗
作非常富于独创性，情节曲折，引人入胜而趣味无穷；但因其诗复杂奥妙，难懂难译 ，故至今缺乏译介。
为了填补这一重要空白，译者选译了勃朗宁最脍炙人口的名作四十余篇。译者不但精心推敲，力求传达勃朗宁诗微妙的言外之意，而且在长期研究的基础上，为每首诗撰写了深入浅出的详细解析文章，帮助读者找到解读的途径，也使读者能够更加兴味盎然地品味欣赏。
19世纪英国诗人勃朗宁是世界一流的重要诗人，他在浪漫主义衰落后另辟蹊径，开创一代诗风，作为戏剧独白诗大师，对现代诗产生了巨大影响勃朗宁的诗
作非常富于独创性，情节曲折，引人入胜而趣味无穷；但因其诗复杂奥妙，难懂难译 ，故至今缺乏译介。
为了填补这一重要空白，译者选译了勃朗宁最脍炙人口的名作四十余篇。译者不但精心推敲，力求传达勃朗宁诗微妙的言外之意，而且在长期研究的基础上，为每首诗撰写了深入浅出的详细解析文章，帮助读者找到解读的途径，也使读者能够更加兴味盎然地品味欣赏。
目录 · · · · · ·
目录译者前言
解读勃朗宁（译者附言）
波菲利雅的情人（1836）
疯人心理――爱之谋杀
我的前公爵夫人（1842）
令人惊叹的典型形象
西班牙修道院里的独白 （1842）
虔诚的外表包不住一肚子坏水
在贡多拉船上（1842）
爱的力量胜过死
哈梅林的花衣吹笛人（1842）
不遵守诺言的报应
药作坊（1844）
妒极而狂
他们如何把好消息从根特送到艾克斯（1845）
生命的价值在搏斗
失去的恋人（1845）
当求婚遭到婉拒之时
海外乡思（1845）
为了免得你猜想
圣普拉西德教堂的主教吩咐后事（1845）
文艺复兴时代的世俗奇观
忏悔室（1845）
一声愤怒的呐喊
夜半相会（1845）
清晨离别（1845）
爱的销魂并不是一切
在村舍――在城里（1855）
意大利：优美的乡村，有趣的城市
一个女人的最后的话（1855）
温情的和解？羞辱的屈从？
利波・利比兄弟 （1855）
热爱生活的艺术家，艰苦奋斗的创新者
加卢皮的托卡塔曲（1855）
轻触生命之谜的三重奏
一封书信，包含阿拉伯医生卡西什的
奇异的医学经历（1855）
一个到过天堂的人的烦恼
村舍小夜曲 （1855）
单恋者的心曲
罗兰公子来到了暗塔（1855）
神秘的旅程
骑马像和胸像（1855）
尽真心去爱，尽全力去做
一生中的爱（1855）
爱中的一生（1855）
追寻，无悔
这如何打动了一个同时代人（1855）
勃朗宁心目中的诗人形象
最后一次同乘（1855）
多情不被无情恼
难忘的记忆（1855）
一瓣心香祭诗魂
安德烈，裁缝之子（1855）
“完美”咏叹调
盛 名（1855）
创新者终将大放光芒
异端分子的悲剧（！855）
残酷的上帝和同样残酷的信徒
荒郊情侣（1855）
在荒郊发生了什么事？
语法学家的葬礼（1855）
安能辨我是“圣”、“愚”？
金 发（1864）
圣人摔歪了一点
凯利班谈论塞提柏斯或岛上的自然神学（1864）
人是这样造上帝的吗？
忏 悔（1864）
放弃“天国”入场券的人
青春和艺术（1864）
幸福在哪里？
指环与书〔节选：第7卷《庞碧丽雅》选段〕（1869）
少女之死
天然的魔力（1876）
魔力的天然 （1876）
仙女之奴（1876）
千古之谜大家猜
体 面（1876）
所罗门和芭尔吉丝 （1886）
宁愿要一个“傻瓜的吻”
诗 学 （1889）
莱 凡（1889）
还是地球好
阿索朗多结尾诗（1889）
希望和勇气是他给世人的永久礼物
附录.勃朗宁年表
《勃朗寧詩選‧阿索朗多結尾詩》Epilogue to Asolando..汪晴和飛白合譯，深 海天，1999，頁431-33
At the midnight in the silence
of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,
Will they pass to where--by death, fools think, imprisoned--
Low he lies who once so loved you whom you loved so,
--Pity me?
When you set your fancies free,
Will they pass to where--by death, fools think, imprisoned--
Low he lies who once so loved you whom you loved so,
--Pity me?
Oh to love so, be so loved, yet
so mistaken!
What had I on earth to do
With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?
Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel
--Being--who?
What had I on earth to do
With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?
Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel
--Being--who?
One who never turned his back
but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
No, at noonday in the bustle of
man's work-time
Greet the unseen with a cheer!
Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be,
"Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,--fight on, fare ever
There as here!"
Greet the unseen with a cheer!
Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be,
"Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,--fight on, fare ever
There as here!"
NOTE
EPILOGUE TO ASOLANDO. (PAGE
94.)
Sharp's _Life of Browning_ has
the following passage: "Shortly before the great bell of San Marco struck
ten, he turned and asked if any news had come concerning _Asolando_, published
that day. His son read him a telegram from the publishers, telling how great
the demand was, and how favorable were the advance articles in the leading
papers. The dying poet turned and muttered, 'How gratifying!' When the last
toll of St. Mark's had left a deeper stillness than before, those by the
bedside saw a yet profounder silence on the face of him whom they loved."
[The end]
Robert Browning's poem: Epilogue To "Asolando"
Robert Browning's poem: Epilogue To "Asolando"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6MZk_32TFs
"Life In A Love" by Robert Browning, who died in Venice, Italy on this day in 1889 (aged 77).
Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship. This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth’s death. Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth’s “Hector in the Garden” and Robert’s “Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature. Elizabeth’s famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety. The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.
送忠樸及戴明之友1999：「茲疑不疑」/ Life In A Love《有終生的愛》周策縱譯
送忠樸及戴明之友1999：「茲疑不疑」/ Life In A Love《有終生的愛》周策縱譯
待校正 1999.4 網站www.deming.com.tw
當時沒想到要找出原詩對照一番.....約15年之後補充：
翻譯也應該修正一下， 周先生有些地方太文了。
送忠樸及戴明之友：「茲疑不疑」
1998年 10月10日，出永和，秋高氣爽、走經台大校園，與一些樹打招呼。出新生南路側門。有一少年騎一新機車，同伴“品摸”其新造型、設計，極盡“疼愛”之能事，始知我已不年青。
進辦公室，寫點東西，從網路上知道到你的網站周年慶，並有「承諾的樂趣」。由於台大內把「五四」戲寫成「舞肆」，想起周策縱先生（周先生的《五四連動史》極有名，其實才富五車）的《棄園文粹》中，有篇（第九九則）談王靜安的「…頻摸索，且攀躋，千門萬戶是耶非？人問總是堪疑處，唯有茲疑不可疑。」周先生說此《鷓鴣天》甚莊嚴深遠。「此種無盡追求之意境，比靜安自己新云古今之成大事業大學問者必須之三種境界，皆更高深。」
周先生並以白郎寧（Robert Browing）《有終生的愛》(Love in a Life)──詩和之，轉錄之，作為我們這些中文網站開拓者的賀禮：
１
一間房又一間房，
我找遍了這院子，
我們同住在這裡。
心啊，一點也別怕，因為，心，你會找到她，
下次，會找到她本人！──不是她所留下來的
簾內的煩惱，床上的芳香！
那壁上的花環，經她拂拭後又開花了：
那兒明鏡對著她翠翹的搖顫也閃光了。
２
但是日子不斷消磨，
還是一條門又一條門？
我永遠摸索著新的命運──
從廂房到正廳，找遍了這大廈。
老是這麼個緣法！我進來時她偏出去了。
我尋了一整天，──別管吧！
可是你知道，天快黑了，──還有那麼多的房間要探索，
那麼多的私屋要尋找，那麼多的幽室要瀆求！
Love in a Life
I
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her—
Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew:
Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.
II
Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune—
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre.
Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest,—who cares?
But 'tis twilight, you see,—with such suites to explore,
Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!
*****
應該不是這首
Life In A Love
Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!
Robert Browning
2016年5月7日 星期六
Sonnet II / Sonnet 2 By William Shakespeare
Sonnet II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
Sonnet 2
When fortie Winters ſhall beſeige thy brow,
And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,
Thy youthes proud liuery ſo gaz’d on now,
Wil be a totter’d weed of ſmal worth held:
Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies,
Where all the treaſure of thy luſty daies;
To ſay within thine owne deepe ſunken eyes,
Were an all-eating ſhame, and thriftleſſe praiſe.
How much more praiſe deſeru’d thy beauties vſe,
If thou couldſt anſwere this faire child of mine
Shall ſum my count, and make my old excuſe
Proouing his beautie by ſucceſſion thine.
This were to be new made when thou art ould,
And ſee thy blood warme when thou feel’ſt it could,
And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,
Thy youthes proud liuery ſo gaz’d on now,
Wil be a totter’d weed of ſmal worth held:
Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies,
Where all the treaſure of thy luſty daies;
To ſay within thine owne deepe ſunken eyes,
Were an all-eating ſhame, and thriftleſſe praiſe.
How much more praiſe deſeru’d thy beauties vſe,
If thou couldſt anſwere this faire child of mine
Shall ſum my count, and make my old excuſe
Proouing his beautie by ſucceſſion thine.
This were to be new made when thou art ould,
And ſee thy blood warme when thou feel’ſt it could,
Robert Browning；胡適自跋: Browning 影響我不少。但他的盲目的樂觀主義，---如他的Pippa Passes ------毫不能影響到我
Robert Browning was born on May 7th 1812. He is best remembered for his dark and ironic dramatic monologues; one critic commented that Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot and Rudyard Kipling "all learned from Browning's exploration of the possibilities of dramatic poetry and of colloquial idiom"
Everyman's Library
Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, London on this day in 1812.
“Rats
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
―from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
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Robert Browning’s famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest treasure, the children of the town. With illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, London on this day in 1812.
“Rats
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
―from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
―from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
*
Robert Browning’s famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest treasure, the children of the town. With illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
1923.12.24
《暫時的安慰》：
自從南高峰上那夜以後，.
五個月不曾經驗這樣神秘的境界了。
月光浸沒著孤寂的我，
轉溫潤了我的孤寂的心，
涼透了的肌骨都震動了；
翠微山上無數森嚴的黑影。
方才還像猙獰的鬼兵，
此時都好像和善可親了。
山前，直望到長辛店的一線電燈光，
天邊，直望到那微茫的小星。
一切都受了那靜穆的光明的洗禮，
一切都是和平的美，
一切都是慈祥的愛。
山寺的晚鐘，
秘魔崖的狗叫，
驚醒了我暫時的迷夢。
是的，暫時的！
亭子面前，花房的草門掀動了，
一個花匠的頭伸出來，
四面一望，又縮進去了。——
靜穆的月光，究竟比不上草門裡的爐火！
暫時的安慰，也究竟解不了明日的煩悶呵！
胡適自跋:
英國詩人 Browning 影響我不少。但他的盲目的樂觀主義，---如他的Pippa Passes ------毫不能影響到我。此詩前半幾乎近似他了，然而只能一瞥的心境，不能長久存在。我不是悲觀者。但我的樂觀主義和他不相同。
Pippa Passes is a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series, in a very inexpensive two-column edition for sixpence, and next republished in Poems[clarification needed] in 1848, when it received much more critical attention. It was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion.
Full text of "Pippa passes. With an introd. by Arthur Symons and a ...
Pippa Passes is a dramatic poem, and is perhaps open to Browning's own criticism. It may equally be defended by other words of his, in the dedicatory letter ...
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