WINTER DAWN

 GREEN star Sirius

     Dribbling over the lake;

     The stars have gone so far on their road,

     Yet we're awake!

 

     Without a sound

     The new young year comes in

     And is half-way over the lake.

     We must begin

 

     Again. This love so full

     Of hate has hurt us so,

     We lie side by side

     Moored—but no,

 

     Let me get up

     And wash quite clean

     Of this hate.—

     So green

 

     The great star goes!

     I am washed quite clean,

     Quite clean of it all.

     But e'en

 

     So cold, so cold and clean

     Now the hate is gone!

     It is all no good,

     I am chilled to the bone

 

     Now the hate is gone;

     There is nothing left;

     I am pure like bone,

     Of all feeling bereft¹.

     A BAD BEGINNING

 

     THE yellow sun steps over the mountain-top

     And falters² a few short steps across the lake—

     Are you awake?

 

     See, glittering on the milk-blue, morning lake

     They are laying the golden racing-track of the

        sun;

     The day has begun.

 

     The sun is in my eyes, I must get up.

     I want to go, there's a gold road blazes before

     My breast—which is so sore.

 

     What?—your throat is bruised³, bruised with my

        kisses?

     Ah, but if I am cruel what then are you?

     I am bruised right through.

 

     What if I love you!—This misery⁴

     Of your dissatisfaction and misprision

     Stupefies me.

 

     Ah yes, your open arms! Ah yes, ah yes,

     You would take me to your breast!—But no,

     You should come to mine,

     It were better so.

 

     Here I am—get up and come to me!

     Not as a visitor either, nor a sweet

     And winsome⁵ child of innocence⁶; nor

     As an insolent⁷ mistress telling my pulse's beat.

 

     Come to me like a woman coming home

     To the man who is her husband, all the rest

     Subordinate to this, that he and she

     Are joined together for ever, as is best.

 

     Behind me on the lake I hear the steamer drum-

        ming

     From Austria. There lies the world, and here

     Am I. Which way are you coming?

 

1 bereft   

adj.被剥夺的

参考例句：

• The place seemed to be utterly bereft of human life.这个地方似乎根本没有人烟。
• She was bereft of happiness.她失去了幸福。

2 falters   

（嗓音）颤抖( falter的第三人称单数 )； 支吾其词； 蹒跚； 摇晃

参考例句：

• He never falters in his determination. 他的决心从不动摇。
• The plan never falters; the design never changes. It is all ordered. 大自然从不步履蹒跚，从不三心二意，一切都是有条不紊。

3 bruised   

[医]青肿的，瘀紫的

参考例句：

• his bruised and bloodied nose 他沾满血的青肿的鼻子
• She had slipped and badly bruised her face. 她滑了一跤，摔得鼻青脸肿。

4 misery   

n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦

参考例句：

• Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。

5 winsome   

n.迷人的，漂亮的

参考例句：

• She gave him her best winsome smile.她给了他一个最为迷人的微笑。
• She was a winsome creature.她十分可爱。

6 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。

7 insolent   

adj.傲慢的，无理的

参考例句：

• His insolent manner really got my blood up.他那傲慢的态度把我的肺都气炸了。
• It was insolent of them to demand special treatment.他们要求给予特殊待遇，脸皮真厚。