Sudden Light

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet, keen smell,

The sight sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before, ─

How long ago I may not know:

But just when at that swallow’s soar

Your neck turned so,

Some veil did fall, ─ I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?

And shall not thus time’s eddying¹ flight

Still with our lives our love restore

In death’s despite,

And day and night yield one delight once more?

偶感

说不清何时何故,

我曾来过这个地方;

只知道门前小草青青,

散发浓烈的芳香;

大海涌动叹息的波涛,

岸边闪烁着一片灯光。

你我曾经相亲相爱,

记忆难耐时间太过久长;

一切都如梦似幻,

只记得你回头探望；

犹如轻沙徐徐落地,

恰似燕子款款飞翔。

一切如云似雾,

让我顿生幻想;

时光飞转流逝,

能否把生死搁置一旁?

让我们重温旧爱,

把往昔的欢情再次共享?