John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale 汉译

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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains  

  My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,  

Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains  

  One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:   

'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,         

  but being too happy in thine happiness, – 

   That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,  

      In some melodious plot  

 Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,  

  Singest of summer in full-throated ease.  

 

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O for a draught of vintage! that hath been  

  Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,  

Tasting of Flora and the country-green,  

  Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!  

O for a beaker full of the warm South, 

  Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,  

    With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,  

          And purple-stained mouth;  

  That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,  

    And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 

 

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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget  

  What thou among the leaves hast never known,  

The weariness, the fever, and the fret  

  Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;  

Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, 

  Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;  

    Where but to think is to be full of sorrow  

          And leaden-eyed despairs;  

  Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,  

Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 

 

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Away! away! for I will fly to thee,  

  Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,  

But on the viewless wings of Poesy,  

  Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:  

Already with thee! tender is the night,  

  And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,  

    Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;  

          But here there is no light,  

  Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown  

    Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.