英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

yuci010

英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

1 P/ Z. [0 d1 i9 M& H3 }4 r　　Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
' p' y, I" G: P" W0 v# y" N# Y　　London has swept about you this score years
9 A8 {6 R( W9 @+ O　　And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
9 U7 j% h. D3 U9 S3 \　　Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
　　Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
　　Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else.
2 g  x1 E/ M6 {: B( c" `2 M　　You have been second always. Tragical?
5 ]  j5 j) y6 r2 g　　No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
, J4 b  i, g) T8 S3 ]1 k  K4 {　　One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
　　One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
% j8 l' }0 P. z　　Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
　　Hours, where something might have floated up.
　　And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
9 U% G5 `, k/ t9 w9 i7 G4 A　　You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
　　And takes strange gain away:
　　Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
　　Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
　　Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
　　That might prove useful and yet never proves,
5 }" K: X. g5 }, u  t7 [0 M  q　　That never fits a corner or shows use,
/ d8 w: O7 v' X9 T　　Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
/ g" U: k( }3 J1 o& I6 t　　The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
2 m9 H( E$ s' J# V4 O9 T　　Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
　　These are your riches, your great store; and yet
　　For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
　　Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
　　In the slow float of differing light and deep,
" R1 Y. u( M$ o9 i, d9 x　　No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
　　Nothing that's quite your own.
  A! D! O2 {- |  u　　Yet this is you.