《John Donne Selected Poems》第1章



John Donne Selected Poems…1

a valediction forbidding mourning。
as virtuous men pass mildly away; 
and whisper to their souls to go; 
whilst some of their sad friends do say;
〃now his breath goes;〃 and some say; 〃no。〃
so let us melt; and make no noise; 
no tear…floods; nor sigh…tempests move ;
twere profanation of our joys 
to tell the laity our love。 
moving of th earth brings harms and fears ;
men reckon what it did; and meant ;
but trepidation of the spheres; 
though greater far; is innocent。 
dull sublunary lovers love 
—whose soul is sense—cannot admit 
of absence; cause it doth remove 
the thing which elemented it。 
but we by a love so much refined;
that ourselves know not what it is; 
inter…assur鑔 of the mind; 
care less; eyes; lips and hands to miss。 
our two souls therefore; which are one; 
though i must go; endure not yet 
a breach; but an expansion; 
like gold to aery thinness beat。 
if they be two; they are two so 
as stiff twin passes are two ; 
thy soul; the fixd foot; makes no show 
to move; but doth; if th other do。 
and though it in the centre sit; 
yet; when the other far doth roam;
it leans; and hearkens after it; 
and grows erect; as that es home。 
such wilt thou be to me; who must;
like th other foot; obliquely run ;
thy firmness makes my circle just; 
and makes me end where i begun。 
。。
John Donne Selected Poems…2
生?
the flea。
mark but this flea; and mark in this;
how little that which thou deniest me is ;
it suckd me first; and now sucks thee; 
and in this flea our two bloods mingled be。
thou knowst that this cannot be said
a sin; nor shame; nor loss of maidenhead ;
yet this enjoys before it woo;
and pamperd swells with one blood made of two ;
and this; alas ! is more than we would do。
o stay; three lives in one flea spare;
where we almost; yea; more than married are。
this flea is you and i; and this
our marriage bed; and marriage temple is。
though parents grudge; and you; were met;
and cloisterd in these living walls of jet。
though use make you apt to kill me;
let not to that self…murder added be;
and sacrilege; three sins in killing three。
cruel and sudden; hast thou since
purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
wherein could this flea guilty be;
except in that drop which it suckd from thee?
yet thou triumphst; and sayst that thou
findst not thyself nor me the weaker now。
tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
just so much honour; when thou yieldst to me;
will waste; as this fleas death took life from thee。
the good…morrow。
i wonder by my troth; what thou and i
did; till we loved ? were we not weand till then ? 
but suckd on country pleasures; childishly ? 
or snorted we in the seven sleepers den ?
twas so ; but this; all pleasures fancies be ;
if ever any beauty i did see; 
which i desired; and got; twas but a dream of thee。
and now good…morrow to our waking souls; 
which watch not one another out of fear ;
for love all love of other sights controls;
and makes one little room an everywhere。
let sea…discoverers to new worlds have gone ;
let maps to other; worlds on worlds have shown ;
let us possess one world ; each hath one; and is one。 
my face in thine eye; thine in mine appears; 
and true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;
where can we find two better hemispheres 
without sharp north; without declining west ?
whatever dies; was not mixd equally ;
if our two loves be one; or thou and i 
love so alike that none can slacken; none can die。
song。
go and catch a falling star;
get with child a mandrake root;
tell me where all past years are;
or who cleft the devils foot;
teach me to hear mermaids singing;
or to keep off envys stinging;
and find
what wind
serves to advance an honest mind。 
if thou best born to strange sights;
things invisible to see;
ride ten thousand days and nights;
till age snow white hairs on thee;
thou; when thou returnst; wilt tell me;
all strange wonders that befell thee;
and swear;
no where
lives a woman true and fair。 
if thou findst one; let me know;
such a pilgrimage were sweet;
yet do not; i would not go;
though at next door we might meet;
though she were true; when you met her;
and last; till you write your letter;
yet she
will be
false; ere i e; to two; or three。 
womans constancy。
now thou hast loved me one whole day;
to…morrow when thou leavest; what wilt thou say ?
wilt thou then antedate some new…made vow ?
or say that now
we are not just those persons which we were ?
or that oaths made in reverential fear
of love; and his wrath; any may forswear ?
or; as true deaths true marriages untie;
so lovers contracts; images of those;
bind but till sleep; deaths image; them unloose ?
or; your own end to justify;
for having purposed change and falsehood; you
can have no way but falsehood to be true ?
vain lunatic; against these scapes i could
dispute; and conquer; if i would ;
which i abstain to do;
for by to…morrow i may think so too。
the undertaking。
i have done one braver thing
than all the worthies did ; 
and yet a braver thence doth spring; 
which is; to keep that hid。
it were but madness now to impart 
the skill of specular stone; 
when he; which can have learnd the art 
to cut it; can find none。
so; if i now should utter this; 
others—because no more 
such stuff to work upon; there is—
would love but as before。
but he who loveliness within 
hath found; all outward loathes; 
for he who color loves; and skin; 
loves but their oldest clothes。
if; as i have; you also do 
virtue in woman see;
and dare love that; and say so too; 
and forget the he and she ;
and if this love; though plac鑔 so; 
from profane men you hide; 
which will no faith on this bestow; 
or; if they do; deride ;
then you have done a braver thing 
than all the worthies did ; 
and a braver thence will
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