W. B. Yeats - All Things can Tempt me 汉译

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:

One time it was a woman’s face, or worse –

The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;

Now nothing but comes readier to the hand

Than this accustomed toil. When I was young,

I had not given a penny for a song

Did not the poet Sing it with such airs

That one believed he had a sword upstairs;

Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,

Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.

一切都能诱使我

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

一切都能诱使我抛开这诗艺技巧：

有一回是一张女人的脸，或更糟——

我那傻瓜治理的国土貌似的需要；

如今什么也不比这已习惯的辛劳

更容易来到手中。在我年轻之时，

我本不会花一个便士买一支歌子，

如果那诗人不是以那般神情歌唱，

令人相信他有一把利剑藏在楼上；

然而现在，只要我能够随心所欲，

我宁愿又冷又聋又哑甚于一条鱼。