A Birthday
[英]克裏斯蒂娜·喬治娜·羅塞蒂
Christina Georgina Rossetti
我的心像一隻歌唱的鳥兒,
居住在溪流的陡坡上麵;
我的心像一棵蘋果樹,
累累的果實把枝條壓彎;
我的心像一隻色彩斑斕的貝殼,
漂流在平靜的海洋;
我的心比這—切都快樂,
因為我的愛來到我的身旁。
為我造一座絲絨鋪就的高台,
掛上毛皮和紫色的飾品;
雕刻出鴿子和石榴樹的圖案,
還有長著一百隻眼睛的孔雀;
用金色和銀色的葡萄來裝點,
再飾以葉子和銀色的鳶尾花;
因為我的新生已經來臨,
我的愛來到我的身旁。
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleur-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.