From an Evening Walk Addressed To a Young Lady

From an Evening Walk Addressed To a Young Lady

                         by William Wordsworth

How pleasant, as the sun declines, to view
The spacious landscape change in form and hue!
Here, vanish, as in mist, before a flood
Of bright obscurity, hill, lawn, and wood;
There, objects, by the searching beams betrayed,
Come forth, and here retire in purple shade;
Even the white stems of birch, the cottage white,
Soften their glare before the mellow light;
The skiffs, at anchor where with umbrage wide
Yon chestnuts half the latticed boat-house hide,
Shed from their sides, that face the sun's slant beam,
Strong flakes of radiance on the tremulous stream:
Raised by yon travelling flock, a dusty cloud
Mounts from the road, and spreads its moving shroud;
The shepherd, all involved in wreaths of fire,
Now shows a shadowy speck, and now is lost entire.

Into a gradual calm the breezes sink,
A blue rim borders all the lake's still brink;
There doth the twinkling aspen's foliage sleep,
And insects clothe, like dust, the glassy deep:
And now, on every side, the surface breaks
Into blue spots, and slowly lengthening streaks;
Here, plots of sparkling water tremble bright
With thousand thousand twinkling points of light;
There, waves that, hardly weltering, die away,
Tip their smooth ridges with a softer ray;
And now the whole wide lake in deep repose
Is hushed, and like a burnished mirror glows,
Save where, along the shady western marge,
Coasts, with industrious oar, the charcoal barge.

湖乡夕阳

  威廉·华兹华斯

多令人神往！看着西下的斜阳
如何变幻这片风光的情调和形象。
这儿，光影里的山峦、草地和树林，
仿佛在浓雾里消隐；
那儿，搜索着的光线,
使物象全都眉目宛然；
这儿，紫色的浓荫，
似把许多东西沉浸；
白色的小屋和桦树枝条，
在柔光中显得丰姿窈窕；
栗树的婆娑密影，
遮住艇库的屋顶；
小舟从侧面接得斜阳光线，
再投到颤抖着的湖面，幻出波光璀璨；
那边羊群扬起云一般的尘土，
在路上升腾，漫向远处；
牧人仿佛被卷入光环火影，
时而消失，时而现出模糊身形。

和风渐渐静下去了，
平静的湖镶上了蓝边；
闪烁着的白杨叶子睡了，
微尘似的昆虫布满如镜的湖面；
一会儿周遭湖面碎成蓝玉碧珠千顷，
慢慢地光点又变成长长的色线晶莹；
这儿成了块块琼田，
闪动着无尽的奇光异焰；
那儿弱不自胜的涟漪轻轻，
波面像被柔和的光线抚平；
终于，整个宽广的湖悄然歇息，
像一轮明镜似的清光四溢；
只有西边树影下的炭船独揽清辉，
沿着岸边，桨儿不停地划动湖水。

（谢耀文 译）

威廉·华兹华斯简介