Walt Whitman - I Sit and Look Out 汉译

  oppression and shame,

I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with

  themselves, remorseful after deeds done,

I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying,

  neglected, gaunt, desperate,

I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous

  seducer of young women,

I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted

  to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,

I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and

  prisoners,

I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who

  shall be kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest,

I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant

  persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the

  like;

All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look

  out upon,

See, hear, and am silent.

我坐而眺望

沃尔特·惠特曼

我坐而眺望世界的一切忧患，一切的压迫和羞耻，

我听到青年人因自己做过的事悔恨不安而发出的秘密的抽搐的哽咽，

我看见处于贫贱生活中的母亲为她的孩子们所折磨，绝望，消瘦，

  奄奄待毙，无人照管，

我看见被丈夫虐待的妻子，我看见青年妇女们所遇到的无信义的诱

  骗者，

我注意到企图隐秘着的嫉妒和单恋的苦痛，我看见大地上的这一切，

我看见战争，疾病，暴政的恶果，我看见殉教者秋囚徒，

我看到海上的饥馑，我看见水手们拈阄决定谁应牺牲来维持其余人

  的生命，

我看到倨傲的人们加之于工人，穷人，黑人等的污蔑与轻视，

我坐而眺望着这一切——一切无穷无尽的卑劣行为和痛苦，

我看着，听着，但我沉默无语。