英文詩詞賞析：The Daffodils

中國人對水仙花有淩波仙子之稱，金璨璨的，成簇成簇的花朵散發出淡淡的清香。其實際上外國人對水仙花也情有獨鍾。以下的詩是由William Wordsworth所寫，翻譯由文學大師郭沬若所譯。


I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host , of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky way,
They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
E gaze –and gazed –but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
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For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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獨行徐徐如浮雲，
橫絕太空渡山谷；
忽然在我一瞥中、
金色水仙花成簇；
開在湖天喬木下，
微風之中頻搖曳。
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有如群星在銀河，
形影綿綿光灼灼；
湖畔蜿蜒花徑長，
連成一片無斷續；
一瞥之中萬朵花，
起舞翩躚頭點啄。
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湖中碧水起漣漪，
湖波踴躍無花樂；
詩人對此殊激昂，
獨在花中事幽躅！
凝眼看花又看花；
當時未解伊何福；
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晚來耽上意悠然，
無憂無慮殊恍惚；
情景閃鑠心眼中，
黃水仙花賦禪悅；
我心乃得溢歡愉，
同花共舞天上曲。