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the works of edgar allan poe-5-第56部分
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resembles the delirium of opium。 The passionate excitement of Love and the
buoyancy of spirit attendant upon intoxication are its less holy pleasures
… the price of which; to those souls who make choice of 〃Al Aaraaf〃 as
their residence after life; is final death and annihilation。
What guilty spirit; in what shrubbery dim;
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn ?
But two : they fell : for Heaven no grace imparts
To those who hear not for their beating hearts。
A maiden…angel and her seraph…lover …
O ! where (and ye may seek the wide skies over)
Was Love; the blind; near sober Duty known ?
*Unguided Love hath fallen … 'mid 〃tears of perfect moan。〃
He was a goodly spirit … he who fell :
A wanderer by moss…y…mantled well …
A gazer on the lights that shine above …
A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love :
What wonder ? For each star is eye…like there;
And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair …
And they; and ev'ry mossy spring were holy
To his love…haunted heart and melancholy。
The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a mountain crag; young Angelo …
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky;
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie。
Here sate he with his love … his dark eye bent
With eagle gaze along the firmament:
Now turn'd it upon her … but ever then
It trembled to the orb of EARTH again。
〃Iante; dearest; see ! how dim that ray !
How lovely 'tis to look so far away !
* There be tears of perfect moan
Wept for thee in Helicon。… _Milton。_
She seem'd not thus upon that autumn eve
I left her gorgeous halls … nor mourn'd to leave。
That eve … that eve … I should remember well …
The sun…ray dropp'd; in Lemnos; with a spell
On th'Arabesque carving of a gilded hall
Wherein I sate; and on the draperied wall …
And on my eye…lids … O the heavy light !
How drowsily it weigh'd them into night !
On flowers; before; and mist; and love they ran
With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan :
But O that light! … I slumber'd … Death; the while;
Stole o'er my senses in that lovely isle
So softly that no single silken hair
Awoke that slept … or knew that it was there。
The last spot of Earth's orb I trod upon
* Was a proud temple call'd the Parthenon …
More beauty clung around her column'd wall
員han ev'n thy glowing bosom beats withal;
And when old Time my wing did disenthral
Thence sprang I … as the eagle from his tower;
And years I left behind me in an hour。
What time upon her airy bounds I hung
One half the garden of her globe was flung
Unrolling as a chart unto my view …
Tenantless cities of the desert too !
Ianthe; beauty crowded on me then;
And half I wish'd to be again of men。〃
〃My Angelo! and why of them to be ?
A brighter dwelling…place is here for thee …
* It was entire in 1687 … the most elevated spot in Athens。
?Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love。 … _Marlowe。_
And greener fields than in yon world above;
And women's loveliness … and passionate love。〃
〃But; list; Ianthe! when the air so soft
*Fail'd; as my pennon'd spirit leapt aloft;
Perhaps my brain grew dizzy … but the world
I left so late was into chaos hurl'd …
Sprang from her station; on the winds apart;
And roll'd; a flame; the fiery Heaven athwart。
Methought; my sweet one; then I ceased to soar
And fell … not swiftly as I rose before;
But with a downward; tremulous motion thro'
Light; brazen rays; this golden star unto!
Nor long the measure of my falling hours;
For nearest of all stars was thine to ours …
Dread star! that came; amid a night of mirth;
A red D鎑alion on the timid Earth。
〃We came … and to thy Earth … but not to us
Be given our lady's bidding to discuss:
We came; my love; around; above; below;
Gay fire…fly of the night we come and go;
Nor ask a reason save the angel…nod
_ She_ grants to us; as granted by her God …
But; Angelo; than thine grey Time unfurl'd
Never his fairy wing o'er fairier world !
Dim was its little disk; and angel eyes
Alone could see the phantom in the skies;
When first Al Aaraaf knew her course to be
Headlong thitherward o'er the starry sea …
But when its glory swell'd upon the sky;
As glowing Beauty's bust beneath man's eye;
* Pennon … for pinion。 … _Milton_。
We paus'd before the heritage of men;
And thy star trembled … as doth Beauty then !〃
Thus; in discourse; the lovers whiled away
The night that waned and waned and brought no day。
They fell : for Heaven to them no hope imparts
Who hear not for the beating of their hearts。
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TAMERLANE
KIND solace in a dying hour!
Such; father; is not (now) my theme …
I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly pride hath revell'd in …
I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope … that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire:
If I _can_ hope … Oh God! I can …
Its fount is holier … more divine …
I would not call thee fool; old man;
But such is not a gift of thine。
Know thou the secret of a spirit
Bow'd from its wild pride into shame。
O! yearning heart! I did inherit
Thy withering portion with the fame;
The searing glory which hath shone
Amid the jewels of my throne;
Halo of Hell! and with a pain
Not Hell shall make me fear again …
O! craving heart; for the lost flowers
And sunshine of my summer hours!
Th' undying voice of that dead time;
With its interminable chime;
Rings; in the spirit of a spell;
Upon thy emptiness … a knell。
I have not always been as now:
The fever'd diadem on my brow
I claim'd and won usurpingly …
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar … this to me?
The heritage of a kingly mind;
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly with human kind。
On mountain soil I first drew life:
The mists of the Taglay have shed
Nightly their dews upon my head;
And; I believe; the winged strife
And tumult of the headlong air
Have nestled in my very hair。
So late from Heaven … that dew … it fell
(Mid dreams of an unholy night)
Upon me … with the touch of Hell;
While the red flashing of the light
From clouds that hung; like banners; o'er;
Appeared to my half…closing eye
The pageantry of monarchy;
And the deep trumpet…thunder's roar
Came hurriedly upon me; telling
Of human battle; where my voice;
My own voice; silly child! … was swelling
(O! how my spirit would rejoice;
And leap within me at the cry)
The battle…cry of Victory!
The rain came down upon my head
Unshelter'd … and the heavy wind
Was giantlike … so thou; my mind! …
It was but man; I thought; who shed
Laurels upon me: and the rush …
The torrent of the chilly air
Gurgled within my ear the crush
Of empires … with the captive's prayer …
The hum of suiters … and the tone
Of flattery 'round a sovereign's throne
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