GLOIRE DE DIJON

 WHEN she rises in the morning

     I linger to watch her;

     She spreads the bath-cloth underneath¹ the window

     And the sunbeams catch her

     Glistening white on the shoulders,

     While down her sides the mellow²

     Golden shadow glows as

     She stoops to the sponge, and her swung breasts

     Sway like full-blown yellow

     Gloire de Dijon roses.

 

     She drips herself with water, and her shoulders

     Glisten as silver, they crumple³ up

     Like wet and falling roses, and I listen

     For the sluicing⁴ of their rain-dishevelled petals⁵.

     In the window full of sunlight

     Concentrates her golden shadow

     Fold on fold, until it glows as

     Mellow as the glory roses.

 

      ICKING

ROSES ON THE BREAKFAST

     TABLE

 

     JUST a few of the roses we gathered from the Isar

     Are fallen, and their mauve-red petals on the

        cloth

     Float like boats on a river, while other

     Roses are ready to fall, reluctant and loth.

 

     She laughs at me across the table, saying

     I am beautiful. I look at the rumpled⁶ young roses

     And suddenly realise, in them as in me,

     How lovely the present is that this day discloses.

     I AM LIKE A ROSE

 

     I AM myself at last; now I achieve

     My very self. I, with the wonder mellow,

     Full of fine warmth, I issue forth⁷ in clear

     And single me, perfected from my fellow.

 

     Here I am all myself. No rose-bush heaving

     Its limpid⁸ sap to culmination⁹, has brought

     Itself more sheer and naked out of the green

     In stark-clear roses, than I to myself am brought.

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1 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

2 mellow   

adj.柔和的；熟透的；v.变柔和；(使)成熟

参考例句：

• These apples are mellow at this time of year.每年这时节，苹果就熟透了。
• The colours become mellow as the sun went down.当太阳落山时，色彩变得柔和了。

3 crumple   

v.把...弄皱，满是皱痕，压碎，崩溃

参考例句：

• Take care not to crumple your dress by packing it carelessly.当心不要因收放粗心压纵你的衣服。
• The wall was likely to crumple up at any time.墙随时可能坍掉。

4 sluicing   

v.冲洗( sluice的现在分词 )；（指水）喷涌而出；漂净；给…安装水闸

参考例句：

• The ship's crew was sluicing down the deck. 船员们正在冲洗甲板。
• An attendant was sluicing out the changing rooms. 一位服务员正在冲洗更衣室。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 petals   

n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
• The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

6 rumpled   

v.弄皱，使凌乱( rumple的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She rumpled his hair playfully. 她顽皮地弄乱他的头发。
• The bed was rumpled and strewn with phonograph records. 那张床上凌乱不堪，散放着一些唱片。 来自辞典例句

7 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

8 limpid   

adj.清澈的，透明的

参考例句：

• He has a pair of limpid blue eyes.他有一双清澈的蓝眼睛。
• The sky was a limpid blue,as if swept clean of everything.碧空如洗。

9 culmination   

n.顶点；最高潮

参考例句：

• The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.太空竞争以第一次在月球行走而达到顶峰。
• It may truly be regarded as the culmination of classical Greek geometry.这确实可以看成是古典希腊几何的登峰造级之作。