基本介紹
- 作品名稱:鳳凰和斑鳩
- 外文名稱:The Phoenix and the Turtle
- 創作年代:1601年
- 文學體裁:詩歌
- 作者:莎士比亞
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On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.
Foul pre-currer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.
That thy sable gender mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supreme and stars of love;
As chorus to their tragic scene.
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclos'd in cinders lie.
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.
Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;
Truth and beauty buried be.
That are either true or fair;
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.