英语诗歌是高雅的语言艺术之一,大多是对真、善、美的讴歌,对人类精神文明的礼赞,是光华灿烂的明珠、美妙绝伦的乐曲;是形美、声美、意美的和谐统一。我精心收集了经典英语诗歌，供大家欣赏学习!
Love’s Philosophy
爱的哲学
-Percy·Bysshe·Shelley
——波西·比希·雪莱
The fountains mingle with the river
泉水汇入溪流,
And the rivers with the ocean,
溪流汇入海洋,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
天际缕缕清风总是交织而至,
With a sweet emotion;
甜蜜涌动;
Nothing in the world is single,
这世上没有什么是形单影只的,
All things by a law divine
万物都遵循一条神圣的定律,
In one another’s being mingle—
相存相依——
Why not I with thine
你我何不如此
See the mountains kiss high heaven
你看山川亲吻高天,
And the waves clasp one another;
朵朵浪花相依相拥;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
花儿也如兄弟姐妹般相亲相爱,
If it disdain’d its brother;
不嫌弃彼此;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
阳光与大地相拥,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea—
月光亲吻着海洋——
What are all these kissings worth,
这一切亲吻有何意义,
If thou kiss not me
倘若你不肯吻我
经典英语诗歌2济慈《那一天来了，所有的甜蜜都失去》
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
那一天来了，甜蜜的一切已失去!
Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,
甜嗓，甜唇，酥胸，纤纤十指，
Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone,
热烈的呼吸，温柔的低音，耳语，
Bright eyes, accomplish'd shape, and lang'rous waist !
明眸，美好的体态，柔软的腰肢!
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,
凋谢了，鲜花初绽的全部魅力，
Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,
凋谢了，我眼睛见过的美的景色，
Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,
凋谢了，我双臂抱过的美的形体，
Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise-
凋谢了，轻声，温馨，纯洁，欢乐——
Vanish'd unseasonably at shut of eve,
这一切在黄昏不合时宜地消退，
When the dusk holiday or holy night
当黄昏，节日的黄昏，爱情的良夜
Of fragrant-curtain'd love begins to weave
正开始细密地编织昏暗的经纬
The woof of darkness thick, for hid delight;
以便用香幔遮住隐蔽的欢悦;
But, as I've read love's missal through to-day,
但今天我已把爱的弥撒书读遍，
He'll let me sleep, seeing I fast and pray
他见我斋戒祈祷，会让我安眠。
经典英语诗歌3Ode to the West Wind
西风颂
I 第一节
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!
啊，狂野的西风，你把秋气猛吹，
不露脸便将落叶一扫而空，
犹如法师赶走了群鬼，
赶走那黄绿红黑紫的一群，
那些染上了瘟疫的魔怪——
呵，你让种子长翅腾空，
又落在冰冷的土壤里深埋，
象尸体躺在坟墓，但一朝
你那青色的东风妹妹回来，
为沉睡的大地吹响银号，
驱使羊群般蓓蕾把大气猛喝，
就吹出遍野嫩色，处处香飘。
狂野的精灵!你吹遍了大地山河，
破坏者，保护者，听吧——听我的歌!
II 第二节
Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread
On the blue surface of thine aery surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head
Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: oh hear!
你激荡长空，乱云飞坠
如落叶;你摇撼天和海，
不许它们象老树缠在一堆;
你把雨和电赶了下来，
只见蓝空上你驰骋之
忽有万丈金发披开，
象是酒神的女祭司勃然大怒
愣把她的长发遮住了半个天，
将暴风雨的来临宣布。
你唱着挽歌送别残年
今夜这天空宛如圆形的大墓
罩住了混浊的云雾一片，
却挡不住电火和冰雹的突破，
更有黑雨倾盆而下!呵，听我的歌!
III 第三节
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams,
Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and tower
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers
Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: oh hear!
你惊扰了地中海的夏日梦，
它在清澈的碧水里静躺，
听着波浪的催眠曲，睡意正浓
朦胧里它看见南国港外石岛旁
烈日下古老的宫殿和楼台
把影子投在海水里晃荡，
它们的墙上长满花朵和藓苔，
那香气光想想也叫人醉倒!
你的来临叫大西洋也惊骇
它忙把海水劈成两半，为你开道，
海地下有琼枝玉树安卧，
尽管深潜万丈，一听你的怒号
就闻声而变色，只见一个个
战栗，畏缩——呵，听我的歌!
IV 第四节
If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable! If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seem'd a vision; I would ne'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud
如果我能是一片落叶随你飘腾，
如果我能是一朵流云伴你飞行，
或是一个浪头在你的威力下翻滚，
如果我能有你的锐势和冲劲，
即使比不上你那不羁的奔放，
但只要能拾回我当年的童心，
我就能陪着你遨游天上，
那时候追上你未必是梦呓，
又何至沦落到这等颓丧，
祈求你来救我之急!
呵，卷走我吧，象卷落叶，波浪，流云!
我跌在人生的刺树上，我血流遍体!
岁月沉重如铁链，压着的灵魂
原本同你一样，高傲，飘逸，不驯。
V 第五节
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! Oh Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind
让我做你的竖琴吧，就同森林一般，
纵然我们都落叶纷纷，又有何妨!
我们身上的秋色斑烂，
好给你那狂飚曲添上深沉的回响，
甜美而带苍凉。给我你迅猛的劲头!
豪迈的精灵，化成我吧，借你的锋芒，
把我的腐朽思想扫出宇宙，
扫走了枯叶好把新生来激发;
凭着我这诗韵做符咒，
犹如从未灭的炉头吹出火花，
把我的话散布在人群之中!
对那沉睡的大地，拿我的嘴当喇叭，
吹响一个预言!呵，西风，
如果冬天已到，难道春天还用久等
What I Have Lived For
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness---that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what---at last---I have found
With equal passion I have sought knowledge I have wished to understand the hearts of men I have wished to know why the stars shine And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux A little of this, but not much, I have achieved
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens But always pity brought me back to earth Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hatred burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer
This has been my life I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me
译文：
我为何而生
我的一生被三种简单却又无比强烈的激情所控制：对爱的渴望，对知识的探索和对人类苦难难以抑制的屿。这些激情像狂风，把我恣情吹向四方，掠过苦痛的大海，迫使我濒临绝望的边缘。
我寻求爱，首先因为它使我心为之着迷，这种难以名状的美妙迷醉使我愿意用所有的余生去换取哪怕几个小时这样的幸福。我寻求爱，还因为它能缓解我心理上的孤独中，我感觉心灵的战栗，仿如站在世界的边缘而面前是冰冷，无底的死亡深渊。我寻求爱，因为在我所目睹的结合中，我仿佛看到了圣贤与诗人们所向往的天堂之景。这就是我所寻找的，虽然对人的一生而言似乎有些遥不可及，但至少是我用尽一生所领悟到的。
我用同样的激情去寻求知识。我希望能理解人类的心灵，希望能够知道群星闪烁的缘由。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的“数即万物”的思想。我已经悟出了其中的一点点道理，尽管并不是很多。
爱和知识，用它们的力量把人引向天堂。但是同情却总把人又拽回到尘世中来。痛苦的呼喊声回荡在我的内心。饥饿的孩子，受压迫的难民，贫穷和痛苦的世界，都是对人类所憧憬的美好生活的无情嘲弄。我渴望能够减少邪恶，但是我无能为力，我也难逃其折磨。
这就是我的一生。我已经找到它的价值。而且如果有机会，我很愿意能再活它一次。
When Love Beckons You
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth
But if, in your fear, you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night
To know the pain of too much tenderness
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips
译文：
爱的召唤
当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险峻。当爱的羽翼拥抱你时，请顺从她，尽管隐藏在其羽翼之下的剑可能会伤到你。当爱向你诉说时，请相信她，尽管她的声音可能打破你的梦想，就如同北风吹落花园里所有的花瓣。
爱会给你戴上桂冠，也会折磨你。爱会助你成长，也会给你修枝。爱会上升到枝头，抚爱你在阳光下颤动力的嫩枝，也会下潜至根部，撼动力你紧抓泥土的根基。
但是，如果你在恐惧之中只想寻求爱的平和与快乐，那你就最好掩盖真实的自我，避开爱的考验，进入不分季节的世界，在那里你将欢笑，但并非开怀大笑，你将哭泣，但并非尽情地哭。爱只将自己付出，也只得到自己。爱一无所有，也不会为谁所有，因为爱本身就已自足。
爱除了实现自我别无他求。但是如果你爱而又不得不有所求，那就请期望：
将自己融化并像奔流的溪水一般向夜晚吟唱自己优美的曲调。
明了过多的温柔所带来的苦痛。
被自己对爱的理解所伤害；
并情愿快乐地悲伤。
在黎明带着轻快的心醒来并感谢又一个有家的日子；
在黄昏怀着感恩之心回家；
然后为内心所爱之人祈祷，吟唱赞美之歌，并带着祷告和歌声入眠。
The Goodness of Life
Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful Though life’s goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed
For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thousands more small, quiet acts of love, kindness and compassion For every person who seeks to hurt, there are many, many more who devote their lives to helping and to healing
There is goodness to life that cannot be denied
In the most magnificent vistas and in the smallest details, look closely, for that goodness always comes shining through
There is no limit to the goodness of life It grows more abundant with each new encounter The more you experience and appreciate the goodness of life, the more there is to be lived
Even when the cold winds blow and the world seems to be covered in foggy shadows, the goodness of life lives on Open your eyes, open your heart, and you will see that goodness is everywhere
Though the goodness of life seems at times to suffer setbacks, it always endures For in the darkest moment it becomes vividly clear that life is a priceless treasure And so the goodness of life is made even stronger by the very things that would oppose it
Time and time again when you feared it was gone forever you found that the goodness of life was really only a moment away Around the next corner, inside every moment, the goodness of life is there to surprise and delight you
Take a moment to let the goodness of life touch your spirit and calm your thoughts Then, share your good fortune with another For the goodness of life grows more and more magnificent each time it is given away
Though the problems constantly scream for attention and the conflicts appear to rage ever stronger, the goodness of life grows stronger still, quietly, peacefully, with more purpose and meaning than ever before
译文：
生命的美好
尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的事要多得多。尽管生命的美好有时被蒙上阴影，但它却永远不会被埋没。
相对于每一个无谓的破坏行为而言，都有更多数以千计更为微小的，包含着爱，友善和同情的举动静静地上演着。相对于每一个试图伤害他人的人而言，都有更多的人致力于帮助他人，治愈他人的创伤。
生命的美好不能否认。
在最为壮观的前景和最为琐碎的细节中，请仔细观察，因为美好的事物总是散发着耀眼的光芒闪亮登场。
生命的美好没有界限。每一次相遇都会使这美好变得越发丰富。你经历得越多，越能欣赏生命的美好，生命中的美好就会变得越多。
即使当寒风袭来，整个世界似乎被雾气掩盖之时，生命的美好仍会存在。睁开双眼，打开心扉，你就会发现这美好无处不在。
尽管生命的美好有时似乎遭受挫折，但它总会挺过来。因为，在最黑暗的时刻，有一点变得格外清楚，那就是，生命是无价的财富。因此，下正是与生命的美好相对立的事物使其越发强大。
无数次地，当你担心这美好已经远离之时，你会发现生命的美好其实只与你相隔须臾。它就在下一角落，存在于每个时刻之间，等着给你惊喜。
花些时间让生命的美好感动自己的灵魂，放松自己的思绪。然后，把你的幸运与他人分享。因为生命的美好会在每次给予之间变得越来越壮观。
尽管总是有问题让你去关注，冲突也似乎愈演愈烈，但生命的美好却总是静静地，平和地，带着比以往更强的意志和更多的价值变得更加强大。
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