Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese:(X IV) 汉译

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
"I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, -
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

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葡萄牙抒情十四行诗（14）

伊丽莎白·巴莱特·布朗宁

如果你一心要爱我，那就别为了什么，

  只是为了爱才爱我。别这么讲：

  “我爱她，为了她的一笑，她的模样，

她柔语的声气；为了她这感触

正好合我的心意，那天里，的确

给我带来满怀的喜悦和舒畅。”

亲爱的，这些好处都不能持常，

会因你而变，而这样唱出的爱曲

也将这样哑寂。也别爱我因为你

  又怜又惜地给我揩干了泪腮，

一个人会忘了哭泣，当她久爱你

  温柔的慰安—却因此失去了你的爱。

爱我，请只是为了那爱的意念，

  那你就能继续地爱，爱我如深海。