Quoted Poems(Besides Terence 大衛 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.

王佐良的譯文如下:
奧西曼提斯①
客自海外歸,曾見沙漠古國
有石像半毀,唯余巨腿
蹲立沙礫間。像頭旁落,
半遭沙埋,但人面依然可畏,
那冷笑,那發號施令的高傲,
足見雕匠看透了主人的心,
才把那石頭刻得神情唯肖,
而刻像的手和像主的心
早成灰燼。像座上大字在目:
「吾乃萬王之王是也,
蓋世功業,敢叫天公折服!」
此外無一物,但見廢墟周圍,
寂寞平沙空莽莽,
伸向荒涼的四方。
①奧西曼提斯即公元前十三世紀的埃及王雷米西斯二
世。他的墳墓在底比斯地方，形如一龐大的獅身人面像


Ulysses
(and this is not a poem)

詹姆士 Joyce

As you are now, we once were.


23-24,Psalm 107,King 詹姆士 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，在大水中經理事務的
他們看見耶和華的作為，並他在深水中的奇事
(和合本《聖經》）


Condition of the Working Class in England
《英國工人階級狀況》
(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 哈里斯 (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 詹姆士 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. 我們曾在巴比倫的河邊坐下、一追想錫安就哭了。
2. 我們把琴掛在那裡的柳樹上。
3. 因為在那裡擄掠我們的、要我們唱歌、搶奪我們的、要我們作樂、說、給我們唱一首錫安歌吧。
4. 我們怎能在外邦唱耶和華的歌呢。
5. 耶路撒冷阿、我若忘記你、情願我的右手忘記技巧。
6. 我若不記念你、若不看耶路撒冷過於我所最喜樂的、情願我的舌頭貼於上膛。
7. 耶路撒冷遭難的日子、以東人說拆毀、拆毀、直拆到根基．耶和華阿、求你記念這仇。
8. 將要被滅的巴比倫城阿、〔城原文作女子〕報復你、像你待我們的、那人便為有福。
9. 拿你的嬰孩摔在磐石上的、那人便為有福。
(和合本《聖經》）   舉報