世界名家經典詩歌精選:Snow in the Suburbs
Snow in the Suburbs
by Thomas Hardy
Every branch big with it,
Bent every twig with it ;
Every fork like a white web-foot;
Every street and pavement mute:
Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward, when
Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.
The palings are glued together like a wall,
And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall.
A sparrow enters the tree
Whereon immediately
A snow-lump thrice his own slight size
Descends on him and showers his head and eyes.
And overturns him
And near inurns him,
And lights on a nether twig, when its brush
Starts off a volley of other lodging lumps with a rush.
The steps are a blanched slope,
Up which, with feeble hope,
A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin,
And we take him in.
郊外雪景
--托馬斯·哈代
雪使樹幹變粗了，
雪把樹枝壓彎了；
一個個樹杈都嵌滿白雪，
一條條街巷都人聲寂滅。
雪花迷失了路轉向上飛去，
遇到新的雪花一齊向下飄去。
條條籬笆被雪花連成一片圍牆，
靜悄悄中鵝毛大雪在飛翔。
一隻麻雀飛上了樹枝，
搖落一團團銀絮，
雪塊有它的三倍大，
朝着它的頭和眼睛灑下。
雪塊衝倒了麻雀，
幾乎把它埋在雪窩。
麻雀飛到低枝上棲歇，
又抖落樹枝上片片玉屑。
臺階變成了白色斜坡，
走來一支有氣無力的黑貓，
飢餓的大眼睛，骨瘦如柴，
我們把它抱了進來。
