托馬斯.哈代的詩歌，托馬斯·哈代(1840-1928) 英國偉大的現(xiàn)實主義作家、詩人。主要作品有小說《苔絲》、《還鄉(xiāng)》，詩集《韋塞克斯詩集》、《今昔詩集》、《時光的笑柄》、《早期與晚期抒情詩》、詩劇《列王》等。

The Last Chrysanthemum

最后一朵菊花

Why should this flower delay so long

To show its tremulous plumes?

Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,

When flowers are in their tombs.

這朵菊花為何留得如此長久，

來顯示自己震顫的羽絨?

現(xiàn)在已是知更鳥哀鳴的時刻，

當花兒已經(jīng)葬入了墳冢。

Through the slow summer, when the sun

Called to each frond and whorl

That all he could for flowers was being done,

Why did it not uncurl?

在漫長的夏季，束束陽光

被邀探訪片片葉兒和花瓣，

太陽為花朵做完了該做的事情，

這朵花那時為何沒有開放?

It must have felt that fervid call

Although it took no heed,

Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall,

And saps all retrocede.

它一定感到那熾熱的召喚，

盡管絲毫也沒有留心，

但現(xiàn)在已蘇醒，當樹葉僵尸般掉落，

當樹液紛紛地隱身。

Too late its beauty, lonely thing,

The season’s shine is spent,

Nothing remains for it but shivering

In tempests turbulent.

它的美色來得太晚，孤獨的東西，

季節(jié)的光輝已經(jīng)耗完，

什么也沒有為它留下，它只好

在狂暴的風雪中震顫。

Had it a reason for delay,

Dreaming in witlessness

That for a bloom so delicately gay

Winter would stay its stress?

難道它有原因逗留，

沒有頭腦地異想天開，

對于一朵嬌嫩美麗的鮮花，

酷冬定會抑制自己的殘害?

- I talk as if the thing were born

With sense to work its mind;

Yet it is but one mask of many worn

By the Great Face behind.

--瞧我說的，仿佛花朵

生來就有思維的能力;

然而這只是許多面具中的一個，

被戴于背后的上帝。