Quoted Poems(Besides Terence Davies His Own)
A. E. Housman (1859–1936). A Shropshire Lad. 1896.
XL. Into my heart on air that kills
INTO my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.
P. B. Shelley
CCXLVI. Ozymandias of Egypt
I MET a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
王佐良的译文如下:
奥西曼提斯①
客自海外归,曾见沙漠古国
有石像半毁,唯余巨腿
蹲立沙砾间。像头旁落,
半遭沙埋,但人面依然可畏,
那冷笑,那发号施令的高傲,
足见雕匠看透了主人的心,
才把那石头刻得神情唯肖,
而刻像的手和像主的心
早成灰烬。像座上大字在目:
“吾乃万王之王是也,
盖世功业,敢叫天公折服!”
此外无一物,但见废墟周围,
寂寞平沙空莽莽,
伸向荒凉的四方。
①奥西曼提斯即公元前十三世纪的埃及王雷米西斯二
世。他的坟墓在底比斯地方，形如一庞大的狮身人面像
Ulysses
(and this is not a poem)
James Joyce
As you are now, we once were.
23-24,Psalm 107,King James Bible
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
在海上坐船，在大水中经理事务的
他们看见耶和华的作为，并他在深水中的奇事
(和合本《圣经》）
Condition of the Working Class in England
《英国工人阶级状况》
(also,this is not a poem)
Friedrich Engels, 1845
removed from the sight of the happier classes, it may struggle along as it can.
Victim
(Ok,i know,not a poem again,a film about homosexual)
Plot Synopsis:
A plea for reform of England's anti-sodomy statutes, this film pits Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde), a married lawyer, against a blackmailer who has photos of Farr and a young gay man (who is being blackmailed and later commits suicide)in Farr's car. After the suicide, Farr tracks down other gay men being extorted for money by the same blackmailer.The well-educated police Detective Inspector Harris (John Barrie) considers the sodomy law nothing more than an aid to blackmailers, and helps Farr in calling his blackmailer's bluff. The movie, far ahead of its time, ends with Farr and his wife coming to terms with his homosexuality after the public exposure he faces in the blackmailer's trial.(from IMDB)
Psalm 137,King James Bible
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
1. 我们曾在巴比伦的河边坐下、一追想锡安就哭了。
2. 我们把琴挂在那里的柳树上。
3. 因为在那里掳掠我们的、要我们唱歌、抢夺我们的、要我们作乐、说、给我们唱一首锡安歌吧。
4. 我们怎能在外邦唱耶和华的歌呢。
5. 耶路撒冷阿、我若忘记你、情愿我的右手忘记技巧。
6. 我若不记念你、若不看耶路撒冷过于我所最喜乐的、情愿我的舌头贴于上膛。
7. 耶路撒冷遭难的日子、以东人说拆毁、拆毁、直拆到根基．耶和华阿、求你记念这仇。
8. 将要被灭的巴比伦城阿、〔城原文作女子〕报复你、像你待我们的、那人便为有福。
9. 拿你的婴孩摔在磐石上的、那人便为有福。
(和合本《圣经》）
XL. Into my heart on air that kills
INTO my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.
P. B. Shelley
CCXLVI. Ozymandias of Egypt
I MET a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
王佐良的译文如下:
奥西曼提斯①
客自海外归,曾见沙漠古国
有石像半毁,唯余巨腿
蹲立沙砾间。像头旁落,
半遭沙埋,但人面依然可畏,
那冷笑,那发号施令的高傲,
足见雕匠看透了主人的心,
才把那石头刻得神情唯肖,
而刻像的手和像主的心
早成灰烬。像座上大字在目:
“吾乃万王之王是也,
盖世功业,敢叫天公折服!”
此外无一物,但见废墟周围,
寂寞平沙空莽莽,
伸向荒凉的四方。
①奥西曼提斯即公元前十三世纪的埃及王雷米西斯二
世。他的坟墓在底比斯地方，形如一庞大的狮身人面像
Ulysses
(and this is not a poem)
James Joyce
As you are now, we once were.
23-24,Psalm 107,King James Bible
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
在海上坐船，在大水中经理事务的
他们看见耶和华的作为，并他在深水中的奇事
(和合本《圣经》）
Condition of the Working Class in England
《英国工人阶级状况》
(also,this is not a poem)
Friedrich Engels, 1845
removed from the sight of the happier classes, it may struggle along as it can.
Victim
(Ok,i know,not a poem again,a film about homosexual)
Plot Synopsis:
A plea for reform of England's anti-sodomy statutes, this film pits Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde), a married lawyer, against a blackmailer who has photos of Farr and a young gay man (who is being blackmailed and later commits suicide)in Farr's car. After the suicide, Farr tracks down other gay men being extorted for money by the same blackmailer.The well-educated police Detective Inspector Harris (John Barrie) considers the sodomy law nothing more than an aid to blackmailers, and helps Farr in calling his blackmailer's bluff. The movie, far ahead of its time, ends with Farr and his wife coming to terms with his homosexuality after the public exposure he faces in the blackmailer's trial.(from IMDB)
Psalm 137,King James Bible
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
1. 我们曾在巴比伦的河边坐下、一追想锡安就哭了。
2. 我们把琴挂在那里的柳树上。
3. 因为在那里掳掠我们的、要我们唱歌、抢夺我们的、要我们作乐、说、给我们唱一首锡安歌吧。
4. 我们怎能在外邦唱耶和华的歌呢。
5. 耶路撒冷阿、我若忘记你、情愿我的右手忘记技巧。
6. 我若不记念你、若不看耶路撒冷过于我所最喜乐的、情愿我的舌头贴于上膛。
7. 耶路撒冷遭难的日子、以东人说拆毁、拆毁、直拆到根基．耶和华阿、求你记念这仇。
8. 将要被灭的巴比伦城阿、〔城原文作女子〕报复你、像你待我们的、那人便为有福。
9. 拿你的婴孩摔在磐石上的、那人便为有福。
(和合本《圣经》）
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