英文诗歌欣赏
诗歌欣赏：Epitaph X
by Thomas Heise
My birthright I have traded for a petal dress
and a summer eulogy． I have pawned my soul
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上海油压工作室 If I could carry calla lilies on my shoulder once more
like an umbrella in daylight， I would lean them
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上海油压工作室 For some of us， beauty is carcinoma．
上海油压工作室 The saint‘s stigmata is god’s rose， bestowed
for forgoing a human lover， who will， of course， die．
I died last year． My mother made her tears into crystal
earrings and clipped them to my ears． “Son， you will
上海油压工作室 pay for your sin，“ my father spoke from his throne of glass．
Stars burn a sharp， white nacre until they evaporate．
The moon‘s flamingo unfolds her iodine wings over the broken city．
上海油压工作室 My necropolis． My teeth are the fruit of your olive tree．
诗歌欣赏：Epistle from Mrs.Yonge to Her Husband
by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
上海油压工作室 Think not this paper comes with vain pretense
To move your pity， or to mourn th' offense．
上海油压工作室 Too well I know that hard obdurate heat；
上海油压工作室 No softening mercy there will take my part，
Nor can a woman's arguments prevail，
When even your patron's wise example fails．
But this last privilege I still retain；
Th' oppressed and injured always may complain
上海油压工作室 Too， too severely laws of honor bind
The weak submissive sex of womankind．
If sighs have gained or force compelled our hand，
上海油压工作室 Deceived by art， or urged by stern command，
Whatever motive binds the fatal tie，
The judging world expects our constancy．
Just heaven! （for sure in heaven does justice reign，
上海油压工作室 Though tricks below that sacred name profane）
To you appealing I submit my cause，
上海油压工作室 Nor fear a judgment from impartial laws．
All bargains but conditional are made；
The purchase void， the creditor unpaid；
上海油压工作室 Defrauded servants are from service free；
上海油压工作室 A wounded slave regains his liberty．
For wives ill used no remedy remains，
To daily racks condemned， and to eternal chains．
上海油压工作室 From whence is this unjust distinction grown?
上海油压工作室 Are we not formed with passions like your own?
Nature with equal fire our souls endued，
上海油压工作室 Our minds as haughty， and as warm as our blood；
O'er the wide world your pleasures you pursue，
上海油压工作室 The change is justified by something new；
But we must sigh in silence——and be true．
上海油压工作室 Our sex's weakness you expose and blame
上海油压工作室 （Of every prattling fop the common theme），
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Sublimer virtue that your Cato knew．
Had heaven designed us trials so severe，
上海油压工作室 It would have formed our tempers then to bear．
上海油压工作室 And I have borne （oh what have I not borne!）
The pang of jealousy， the insults of scorn．
Wearied at length， I from your sight remove，
And place my future hopes in secret love．
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上海油压工作室 I quit the woman's joy to be admired，
上海油压工作室 With that small pension your hard heart allows，
Renounce your fortune， and release your vows．
To custom （though unjust） so much is due；
上海油压工作室 I hide my frailty from the public view．
My conscience clear， yet sensible of shame，
My life I hazard， to preserve my fame．
上海油压工作室 And I prefer this low inglorious state
To vile dependence on the thing I hate——
But you pursue me to this last retreat．
上海油压工作室 Dragged into light， my tender crime is shown
And every circumstance of fondness known．
Beneath the shelter of the law you stand，
上海油压工作室 And urge my ruin with a cruel hand，
While to my fault thus rigidly severe，
上海油压工作室 Tamely submissive to the man you fear．
This wretched outcast， this abandoned wife，
Has yet this joy to sweeten shameful life：
By your mean conduct， infamously loose，
You are at once my accuser and excuse．
Let me be damned by the censorious prude
上海油压工作室 （Stupidly dull， or spiritually lewd），
My hapless case will surely pity find
上海油压工作室 From every just and reasonable mind．
上海油压工作室 When to the final sentence I submit，
The lips condemn me， but their souls acquit．
上海油压工作室 No more my husband， to your pleasures go，
The sweets of your recovered freedom know．
Go： court the brittle friendship of the great，
上海油压工作室 Smile at his board， or at his levee wait；
And when dismissed， to madam's toilet fly，
上海油压工作室 More than her chambermaids， or glasses， lie，
Tell her how young she looks， how heavenly fair，
上海油压工作室 Admire the lilies and the roses there．
Your high ambition may be gratified，
Some cousin of her own be made your bride，
And you the father of a glorious race
Endowed with Ch——l's strength and Low——r's face．
上海油压工作室 诗歌欣赏：Buying Stock
by Denise Duhamel
"……The use of condoms offers substantial protection， but does not
上海油压工作室 guarantee total protection and that while
there is no evidence that deep kissing has resulted in
transfer of the virus， no one can say that such transmission
would be absolutely impossible．"
——The Surgeon General， 1987
I know you won't mind if I ask you to put this on．
上海油压工作室 It's for your protection as well as mine——Wait．
Wait． Here， before we rush into anything
上海油压工作室 I've bought a condom for each one of your fingers． And here——
上海油压工作室 just a minute——Open up．
I'll help you put this one on， over your tongue．
I was thinking：
上海油压工作室 If we leave these two rolled， you can wear them
as patches over your eyes． Partners have been known to cry，
shed tears， bodily fluids， at all this trust， at even the thought
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诗歌欣赏：Epithalamium
by Matthew Rohrer
In the middle garden is the secret wedding，
上海油压工作室 that hides always under the other one
and under the shiny things of the other one． Under a tree
one hand reaches through the grainy dusk toward another．
上海油压工作室 Two right hands． The ring is a weed that will surely die．
There is no one else for miles，
and even those people far away are deaf and blind．
There is no one to bless this．
There are the dark trees， and just beyond the trees．
上海油压工作室 诗歌欣赏：Barrio with Sketchy Detail
上海油压工作室 by Andrea Werblin
Except for the chickens humming to each other，
上海油压工作室 making themselves look boneless in the dirt，
I want no memory of this place．
I will leave gingerly．
I will leave strung out．
I will leave rocking on my heels in unbearable heat．
上海油压工作室 the Mexican girls still faking and mourning Selena
from their perfect cement stoops，
上海油压工作室 not yet sworn to the anger hanging
from their papas' mouths like cigarettes．
上海油压工作室 I will leave stunned， from across the room．
I will leave by instinct， my tongue intact．
上海油压工作室 I will leave understanding it
上海油压工作室 was always coming， before that night， even
before we met． Marta will stand quiet， a glyph，
上海油压工作室 Pedro offer beer in cups． We'll sit．
上海油压工作室 When I leave， the sky will be a gouache of scratches，
the morning sluggish， a cactus flowering．
Or I will leave in blistered dark． It will still be true．
诗歌欣赏：A Perfume
There were mice， and even
Smaller creatures holed up in the rafters．
One would raise its thumb， or frown，
上海油压工作室 And suddenly the clouds would part， and the whole
Fantastic contraption come tumbling down．
And the arcade of forgotten things
上海油压工作室 Closed in the winter， and the roller coaster
Stood empty as the visitors sped away
Down a highway that passed by an old warehouse
Full of boxes of spools and spoons．
上海油压工作室 I wonder if these small mythologies，
Whose only excuse for existing is to maintain us
In our miniscule way of life，
Might possibly be true? And even if they were，
Would it be right? Go find the moon
And seal it in the envelope of night．
The stars are like a distant dust
上海油压工作室 And what the giants left lies hidden in full view．
Brush your hair． Wipe the blood from your shoes．
Sit back and watch the firedance begin．
上海油压工作室 ——So the rain falls in place，
上海油压工作室 The playground by the school is overrun with weeds
And we live our stories， filling up our lives
With souvenirs of the abandoned
Factory we have lingered in too long．
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