Bright Star
灿烂的星
John Keats · 约翰·济慈
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
灿烂的星，我愿像你一样坚定——
不是孤高地悬在夜空，
以永恒的眼睑睁开注视，
像大自然耐心的、不眠的隐士，
看着流动的水，从事祭司般的
纯洁洗礼，环绕人间海岸，
或是凝视新落下的柔软面纱——
山峦与荒原上的雪——
不——却依然坚定，依然不变，
枕在我美丽的爱人日渐成熟的胸前，
永远感受它轻柔的起伏，
永远在甜蜜的不安中清醒，
永远、永远听她轻柔的呼吸，
就这样永生——否则就昏厥而逝。
济慈献给爱人的情诗：愿像星一样坚定，永远贴着爱人的胸膛，否则宁可死去。