the complete poetical works-第210节
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A panic terror spread unto the hindmost of the throng。
Together with these two good knights; the champions of the sky;
The Christians rallied and began to smite full sore and high;
The Moors raised up their voices and by the Koran swore
That in their lives such deadly fray they ne'er had seen before。
Down went the misbelievers;fast sped the bloody fight;
Some ghastly and dismembered lay; and some half dead with fright:
Full sorely they repented that to the field they came;
For they saw that from the battle they should retreat with shame。
Another thing befell them;they dreamed not of such woes;
The very arrows that the Moors shot front their twanging bows
Turned back against them in their flight and wounded them full
sore;
And every blow they dealt the foe was paid in drops of gore。
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Now he that bore the crosier; and the papal crown had on;
Was the glorified Apostle; the brother of Saint John;
And he that held the crucifix; and wore the monkish hood;
Was the holy San Millan of Cogolla's neighborhood。
SAN MIGUEL; THE CONVENT
(SAN MIGUEL DE LA TUMBA)
BY GONZALO DE BERCEO
San Miguel de la Tumba is a convent vast and wide;
The sea encircles it around; and groans on every side:
It is a wild and dangerous place; and many woes betide
The monks who in that burial…place in penitence abide。
Within those dark monastic walls; amid the ocean flood;
Of pious; fasting monks there dwelt a holy brotherhood;
To the Madonna's glory there an altar high was placed;
And a rich and costly image the sacred altar graced。
Exalted high upon a throne; the Virgin Mother smiled;
And; as the custom is; she held within her arms the Child;
The kings and wise men of the East were kneeling by her side;
Attended was she like a queen whom God had sanctified。
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Descending low before her face a screen of feathers hung;
A moscader; or fan for flies; 'tis called in vulgar tongue;
From the feathers of the peacock's wing 't was fashioned bright
and fair;
And glistened like the heaven above when all its stars are there。
It chanced that; for the people's sins; fell the lightning's
blasting stroke:
Forth from all four the sacred walls the flames consuming broke;
The sacred robes were all consumed; missal and holy book;
And hardly with their lives the monks their crumbling walls
forsook。
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But though the desolating flame raged fearfully and wild;
It did not reach the Virgin Queen; it did not reach the Child;
It did not reach the feathery screen before her face that shone;
Nor injure in a farthing's worth the image or the throne。
The image it did not consume; it did not burn the screen;
Even in the value of a hair they were not hurt; I ween;
Not even the smoke did reach them; nor injure more the shrine
Than the bishop hight Don Tello has been hurt by hand of mine。
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SONG
She is a maid of artless grace;
Gentle in form; and fair of face;
Tell me; thou ancient mariner;
That sailest on the sea;
If ship; or sail or evening star
Be half so fair as she!
Tell me; thou gallant cavalier;
Whose shining arms I see;
If steel; or sword; or battle…field
Be half so fair as she!
Tell me; thou swain; that gnard'st thy flock
Beneath the shadowy tree;
If flock; or vale; or mountain…ridge
Be half so fair as she!
SANTA TERESA'S BOOK…MARK
(LETRILLA QUE LLEVABA POR REGISTRO EN SU BREVIARIO)
BY SANTA TERESA DE AVILA
Let nothing disturb thee;
Nothing affright thee;
All things are passing;
God never changeth;
Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth。
FROM THE CANCIONEROS
I
EYES SO TRISTFUL; EYES SO TRISTFUL
(OJOS TRISTES; OJOS TRISTES)
BY DIEGO DE SALDANA
Eyes so tristful; eyes so tristful;
Heart so full of care and cumber;
I was lapped in rest and slumber;
Ye have made me wakeful; wistful!
In this life of labor endless
Who shall comfort my distresses?
Querulous my soul and friendless
In its sorrow shuns caresses。
Ye have made me; ye have made me
Querulous of you; that care not;
Eyes so tristful; yet I dare not
Say to what ye have betrayed me。
II
SOME DAY; SOME DAY
(ALGUNA VEZ)
BY CRISTOBAL DE GASTILLOJO
Some day; some day
O troubled breast;
Shalt thou find rest。
If Love in thee
To grief give birth;
Six feet of earth
Can more than he;
There calm and free
And unoppressed
Shalt thou find rest。
The unattained
In life at last;
When life is passed;
Shall all be gained;
And no more pained;
No more distressed;
Shalt thou find rest。
III
COME; O DEATH; SO SILENT FLYING
(VEN; MUERTE TAN ESCONDIDA)
BY EL COMMENDADOR ESCRIVA
Come; O Death; so silent flying
That unheard thy coming be;
Lest the sweet delight of dying
Bring life back again to me。
For thy sure approach perceiving;
In my constancy and pain
I new life should win again;
Thinking that I am not living。
So to me; unconscious lying;
All unknown thy coming be;
Lest the sweet delight of dying
Bring life back again to me。
Unto him who finds thee hateful;
Death; thou art inhuman pain;
But to me; who dying gain;
Life is but a task ungrateful。
Come; then; with my wish complying;
All unheard thy coming be;
Lest the sweet delight of dying
Bring life back again to me。
IV
GLOVE OF BLACK IN WHITE HAND BARE
Glove of black in white hand bare;
And about her forehead pale
Wound a thin; transparent veil;
That doth not conceal her hair;
Sovereign attitude and air;
Cheek and neck alike displayed
With coquettish charms arrayed;
Laughing eyes and fugitive;
This is killing men that live;
'T is not mourning for the dead。
FROM THE SWEDISH AND DANISH
PASSAGES FROM FRITHIOF'S SAGA
BY ESAIAS TEGNER
I
FRITHIOF'S HOMESTEAD
Three miles extended around the fields of the homestead; on three
sides
Valleys and mountains and hills; but on the fourth side was the
ocean。
Birch woods crowned the summits; but down the slope of the
hillsides
Flourished the golden corn; and man…high was waving the
rye…field。
Lakes; full many in number; their mirror held up for the
mountains;
Held for the forests up; in whose depths the high…horned
reindeers
Had their kingly walk; and drank of a hundred brooklets。
But in the valleys widely around; there fed on the greensward
Herds with shining hides and udders that longed for the
milk…pail。
'Mid these scattered; now here and now there; were numberless
flocks of
Sheep with fleeces white; as thou seest the white…looking stray
clouds;
Flock…wise spread o'er the heavenly vault when it bloweth in
springtime。
Coursers two times twelve; all mettlesome; fast fettered storm…
winds;
Stamping stood in the line of stalls; and tugged at their fodder。
Knotted with red were their manes; and their hoofs all white with
steel shoes。
Th' banquet…hall; a house by itself; was timbered of hard fir。
Not five hundred men (at ten times twelve to the hundred)
Filled up the roomy hall; when assembled for drinking; at
Yule…tide。
Through the hall; as long as it was; went a table of holm…oak;
Polished and white; as of steel; the columns twain of the
High…seat
Stood at the end thereof; two gods carved out of an elm…tree:
Odin with lordly look; and Frey with the sun on his frontlet。
Lately between the two; on a bear…skin (the skin it was
coal…black;
Scarlet…red was the throat; but the paws were shodden with
silver);
Thorsten sat with his friends; Hospitality sitting with Gladness。
Oft; when the moon through the cloudrack flew; related the old
man
Wonders from distant lands he had seen; and cruises of Vikings
Far away on the Baltic; and Sea of the West and the White Sea。
Hushed sat the listening bench; and their glances hung on the
graybeard's
Lips; as a bee on the rose; but the Scald was thinking of Brage;
Where; with his silver beard; and runes on his tongue; he is
seated
Under the leafy beech; and tells a tradition by Mimer's
Ever…murmuring wave; himself a living tradition。
Midway the floor (with thatch was it strewn) burned ever the
fire…flame
Glad on its stone…built hearth; and thorough the wide…mouthed
smoke…flue
Looked the stars; those heavenly friends; down into the great
hall。
Round the walls; upon nails of steel; were hanging in order
Breastplate and helmet together; and here and there among them
Downward lightened a sword; as in winter evening a star shoots。
More than helmets and swords the shields in the hall were
resplendent;
Whit