世界名家经典诗歌精选:The Shadow on the Stone
The Shadow on the Stone
by Thomas Hardy
I went by the Druid stone
That broods in the garden white and lone,
And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows
That at some moments fall thereon
From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,
And they shaped in my imagining
To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders
Threw there when she was gardening.
I thought her behind my back,
Yea, her I long had learned to lack,
And I said: "I am sure you are standing behind me,
Though how do you get into this old track?"
And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf
As a sad response; and to keep down my grief
I would not turn my head to discover
That there was nothing in my belief.
Yet I wanted to look and see
That nobody stood at the back of me;
But I thought once more: "Nay, I'll not unvision
A shape which, somehow, there may be."
So I went on softly from the glade,
And left her behind me throwing her shade,
As she were indeed an apparition-
My head unturned lest my dream should fade.
踪影
--托马斯·哈代
我漫步经过一块石碑
它晶莹而又孤零零立在花园中，
我停步注视着
碑上移动的树影，
树枝在有节奏的摆动。
在我的想象里，
影子化作我熟悉的头和双肩，
是她在园中操作的身影。
我想准是她站在我的背后，
我久已失去她的音容。
我说：“我知道你在我背后，
可你怎么到这常来的旧径？”
寂然无语，只有凄凉的落叶声。
我抑制住我的悲哀，
我不愿回过头去，
怕看不到一个人影。
可是我又想看个分明，
看背后有否人踪。
但我又想：“可不能使这一形象消失，
她就在我身后也很可能。”
我悄悄离开花园，
留下她的身影在我背后，
她好象真是一个幻影，
我头也不回，怕我的梦消失无踪。
