The daisy follows soft the sun这首诗我搜了一下没有什么大能翻译过,所以只能自己乱翻,有些地方参考了网上其他人的翻法,比如最后一句。
艾米丽狄更斯比较有名的诗贴一首在这儿
I DIED for beauty
/Emily Dickinson
I DIED for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth,—the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
殉 美
余光中 译
我为美死去,但是还不曾
安息在我的墓里,
又有个为真理而死去的人
来躺在我的隔壁。
他悄悄地问我为何以身殉?
“为了美,”我说。
“而我为真理,两者不分家;
我们是兄弟两个。”
于是像亲戚在夜间相遇,
我们便隔墙谈天,
直到青苔爬到了唇际,
将我们的名字遮掩。
这首诗各个版本的翻译,我觉得余光中的是最好的,最有诗意,他也不亏是翻译界的超级巨巨。