前幾天在電影台看了一部有點怪異的電影,
劇中人物被謀殺,
凶手卻以被害者寫下的詩,
當成是自殺前的遺書...
這麼美麗的一首時,
被營造成如此悲傷的遺書,
真是...
什麼詩?
是在情竇初開時愛上的一首詩,
聽著羅大佑的歌,
看著徐志摩的歌,
就是這麼一首--歌.
在年少無知多年以後,
我才知道,
這首詩的作者是一位英國女詩人Christina Georgina Rossetti寫的,
英國女作家Virginia Woolf曾稱許她：
「在英國女詩人中，Christina Georgina Rossetti應居首位。她的歌唱有時像知更鳥，有時像夜鶯。」
《Song》
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree;
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt,forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale,
Sing on as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
以下徐志摩翻譯的功力,也是粉美的.
《歌》
我死了的時候 親愛的
別為我唱悲傷的歌
我墳上不必安插薔薇
也無須濃蔭的柏樹
讓蓋著我的青青的草
淋著雨 也沾著露珠
假如你願意 請記著我
要是你甘心忘了我
我再不見地面的清蔭
覺不到雨露的甜蜜
再聽不見夜鶯的歌喉
在黑夜裡傾吐悲啼
在悠久的昏暮中迷惘
陽光不升起 也不消翳
我也許 也許我記得你
我也許 我也許忘記
最後,當然也要來聽聽羅大佑的歌
《歌》
當我死去的時候
親愛的
別為我唱悲傷的歌
我墳上不必安插薔薇
也無須濃蔭的柏樹
讓蓋著我的青青的草
淋著雨也沾著露珠
假如你願意請記著我
要是你甘心忘了我
在悠久的昏暮中迷惘
陽光不升起也不消翳
我也許
也許我還記得你
我也許把你忘記
我再不見地面的清蔭
覺不到雨露的甜蜜
我再聽不見夜鶯的歌喉
在黑夜裡傾吐悲啼
在悠久的昏暮中迷惘
陽光不升起也不消翳
我也許
也許我還記得你
我也許把你忘記
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Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830–1894), poet, was born on 5 December 1830 at 38 Charlotte Street, London, the second daughter and fourth child of Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (1783–1854) and Frances Mary Lavinia, née Polidori (1800–1886). Her father, a Neapolitan patriot who had escaped to England in 1824, was an Italian scholar, an expert on Dante, and professor of Italian at King's College, London. He married, at the age of forty-three, the 26-year-old daughter of Gaetano Polidori and Anna Maria Pierce, another of whose children, John William Polidori, was Byron's physician and the author of The Vampyre (1819). Christina Rossetti was close in age to her sister and brothers—Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), and William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919)—and they were bound by a strong family feeling. Their home was open to visiting Italian scholars, adventurers, and revolutionaries; the works of Dante and Petrarch were part of their birthright; and all the children were taught—the boys until they went to school, the girls until they were deemed to be ready to be employed as governesses—by their mother, who was a formidable influence on all their lives.
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