D.H. Lawrence ：Humming-Bird

王敖

绝对的好诗

D.H. Lawrence  

Humming-Bird

I can imagine, in some otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.
Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.
I believe there were no flowers then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.
Probably he was big
As mosses, and little lizards, they say, were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing, terrifying monster.
We look at him through the wrong end of the telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.

王敖

劳伦斯的诗良莠不齐，但是偶尔会有这种让人震惊的杰作。

粘利文

好在以大喻小，以小讚大，由空間與時間上的差異拉開宏大格局，
，再用誠\摯珍惜的感情充滿其間，深遠，並再全灌注咏於微妙亦大的小上，\r
似有史前小宇宙胚胎感，讀來幸福無比.

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-2-5 12:38:08编辑过]

陈舸

We look at him through the wrong end of the telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.

很好！我也看了这首蜂鸟的中译

王敖

在哪里？

陈舸

我手上有一本小开本的<劳伦斯诗选>,有这首诗.