Guilt Right now, your guilt is heavy fruit,Growing on your branches, bearing them down.Your springy sapling strength is overcome.You cannot keep your longest limbsFrom bending with the weight.They will brush their leafy endsAgainst the the ground. But do not ask too soon to be relieved of guilt.If picked when green, this heavy fruitIs hard , sterile and sour.Let it grow til its season comes.Let it ripen, sweeten, soften.Then it will loosen its grip.And drop of itself to the waiting earth,Carrying seeds of a new resolve.这个难不难？要是难的话我可以再写一个。很开心帮到你。。。
night time sharpens
heightens each sensation ...
darkness wakes
and stirs imagination
silently the senses
abandon their defences
helpless to resist
the notes i write
for i compose
the music of the night ...
slowly, gently
night unfurls its splendeour.
grasp it, sense it -
tremulous and tender
hearing is believing
music is deceiving
hard as lightning
soft as candlelight
dare you trust
the music of the night ...
close your eyes
for your eyes will only tell the truth
and the truth
isn't what you want to see,
in the dark
it is easy to pretend
that the truth
is what it ought to be.
softly, deftly
music shall caress you ...
hear it, feel it
secretly possess you ...
open up your mind
let your fantasies unwind
in the darkness which
you know you cannot fight -
the darkness of the music of the night ...
close your eyes
start a journey through a
strange new world!
leave all thoughts
of the world
you knew before!
close your eyes
and let music set you free ...
only then
can you belong to me ...
floating, falling
sweet intoxication!
touch me, trust me
savour each sensation ...
let the dream
begin
let your darker side
give in
to the power of
the music that i write -
the power of
the music of the night ...
you alone
can make my song take flight -
help me make
the music of the night ...
网上还有夜之乐章的歌，可以配合
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FAILURE
Robert H. Schuller
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure，It does mean you haven’t succeeded yet. Failure doesn’t mean you have accomplished nothing，It does mean you have learned something. Failure doesn’t mean you have been a fool，It does mean you had a lot of faith. Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been disgraced，It does mean you were willing to try. Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it，It does mean you have to do something in a different way. Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior，It does mean you are not perfect. Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life，It does mean you have a reason to start afresh. Failure doesn’t mean you should give up，It does mean you must try harder. Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it，It does mean it will take a little longer. Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you，It does mean God has a better idea.
失败的意义
罗伯特·H·舒勒 陈采霞译
失败并不代表你是个失败者，它只表明你尚未成功。失败并不代表你一无所获，它只表明你吸取了一次教训。失败并不代表你很愚蠢，它只表明你信心百倍。失败并不代表你无脸见人，它只表明你百折不回。失败并不代表你工夫白费，它只表明你的做事方法尚待改进。失败并不代表你低人一等。它只表明你并非完人。失败并不代表你浪费生命，它只表明你有理由重新开始。失败并不代表你应该放弃，它只表明你要加倍努力。失败并不代表成功永不属于你，它只表明你要付出更多的时间。失败并不代表上帝已经抛弃你，它只表明上帝还有更好的主意。 2. FOLLOW YOUR OWN COURSE Neil Simon
Don t listen to those who say，"It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not， but maybe you will. Don’t listen to those who say，"You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor，and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don’t listen When the little voice of fear inside of your ear its ugly head and says，"They’re all smarter than you out there. They’re more talented，They’re taller， blonder， prettier， luckier and have connections……"I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you，Not to the exclusion of love，sensitivity， and cooperation with others，But with the strength of conviction That you can move others by your own efforts，And do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live，The chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respect.
走自己的路 尼尔·西蒙 陈采霞译
别听那些人的话，"这事不能那么做。"也许是不能那么做，可是也许你就会那么做。别听那些人的话，"你这个险冒得太大了。"米开朗琪罗可能在西斯廷教堂的地板上作过画，到今天肯定已经被抹掉了。最重要的是，当你心中恐惧的声音，抬起它丑陋的头说，"那边那些人都比你聪明，他们更有才华，他们更高大、皮肤更白、更漂亮、更幸运，并且认识各种各样的人…"你可千万别理会。我坚信只要选择一条你感兴趣的路，不排除爱情、敏锐以及与别人的合作，而是坚定地认为，通过你自身的努力能够感动他人，不把成功或者失败作为你生活的标准，那么你就可能成为值得自己敬佩的人。
2. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood，
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth；
Then took the other, as just as fair，
And having perhaps the better claim，
Because it was grassy and wanted wear(磨损)；
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same，
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden（踩） black.
Oh，I kept the first for another day！
Yet knowing how way leads on to way，
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence：
Two roads diverged in a wood，and I?
I took the one less traveled by，
And that has made all the difference.
没有走过的路
罗伯特·弗罗斯特 陈采霞译
金色的树林路分两条，
遗憾不能两条都到。
孤独的我长久伫立，
极日眺望其中一条，
直到它在灌丛中淹没掉。
然后我公平地选择了另外一条，
或许理由更加充分，
因为它草深需要有人上去走走。
说到有多少人从上面走过
两条路磨损得还真是差不多。
而且那天早晨两条路都静静地躺着，
覆盖在上面的树叶都没有被踩黑，
噢，我把第一条路留给了下一次！
但我知道前方的路变幻莫测，
我怀疑我是否应该回来……
多年以后在某个地方，
我将叹息着讲述这件事：
树林里路分两条，而我——
选择了行人较少的那条，
就这样一切便发生了改变。
3. WHAT IS SUCCESS
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is success？
To laugh often and love much；
To win the respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children；
To earn the approbation（认可，嘉许） of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends；
To appreciate beauty；
To find the best in others；
To give oneself；
To leave the world a little better，
Whether by a healthy child，
A garden patch，
Or a redeemed social condition；
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
And sung with exultation；（大悦，欢欣）
To know even one life has breathed easier，
Because you have lived……
This is to have succeeded.
成功的内涵
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生 陈采霞译
成功是什么？
笑口常开，爱心永在，
赢得智者的尊重，
孩子们的爱戴；
博得真诚的认可，
容忍损友的背叛；
欣赏美好的东西，
发现别人的可爱。
学会无私地奉献，
给世界增添光彩：
要么培育出健康的孩子，
要么留下花园一块，
亦或是改善社会条件；
尽情娱乐、笑得畅快，
把欢乐的歌唱起来；
甚至知道一个生命活得自在，
因为你的一路走来……这就是成功的内涵。
致云雀
—— by Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
你好啊，欢乐的精灵！
你似乎从不是飞禽，
从天堂或天堂的邻近，
以酣畅淋漓的乐音，
不事雕琢的艺术，倾吐你的衷心。
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
向上，再向高处飞翔，
从地面你一跃而上，
象一片烈火的轻云，
掠过蔚蓝的天心，
永远歌唱着飞翔，飞翔着歌唱。
In the golden lightning
Of the sunken sun
O'er which clouds are bright'ning,
Thou dost float and run,
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
地平线下的太阳，
放射出金色的电光，
晴空里霞蔚云蒸，
你沐浴着阳光飞行，
似不具形体的喜悦刚开始迅疾的远征。
The pale purple even
Melts around thy flight;
Like a star of Heaven
In the broad daylight
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight:
淡淡的紫色黎明
在你航程周围消融，
象昼空里的星星，
虽然不见形影，
却可以听得清你那欢乐的强音——
Keen as are the arrows
Of that silver sphere,
Whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear
Until we hardly see--we feel that it is there.
那犀利无比的乐音，
似银色星光的利箭，
它那强烈的明灯，
在晨曦中暗淡，
直到难以分辨，却能感觉到就在空间。
All the earth and air
With thy voice is loud.
As, when night is bare,
From one lonely cloud
The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
整个大地和大气，
响彻你婉转的歌喉，
仿佛在荒凉的黑夜，
从一片孤云背后，
明月射出光芒，清辉洋溢宇宙。
What thou art we know not;
What is most like thee?
From rainbow clouds there flow not
Drops so bright to see
As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
我们不知，你是什么，
什么和你最为相似？
从霓虹似的彩霞
也降不下这样美的雨，
能和当你出现时降下的乐曲甘霖相比。
Like a poet hidden
In the light of thought,
Singing hymns unbidden,
Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:
象一位诗人，隐身
在思想的明辉之中，
吟诵着即兴的诗韵，
直到普天下的同情
都被未曾留意过的希望和忧虑唤醒。
Like a high-born maiden
In a palace tower,
Soothing her love-laden
Soul in secret hour
With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower:
象一位高贵的少女，
居住在深宫的楼台，
在寂寞难言的时刻，
排遣她为爱所苦的情怀，
甜美有如爱情的歌曲，溢出闺阁之外；
Like a glow-worm golden
In a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden
Its aerial hue
Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view:
象一只金色的萤火虫，
在凝露的深山幽谷，
不显露它的行踪，
把晶莹的流光传播，
在遮断我们视线的芳草鲜花丛中；
Like a rose embowered
In its own green leaves,
By warm winds deflowered,
Till the scent it gives
Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves.
象一朵让自己的绿叶
阴蔽着的玫瑰，
遭受到热风的摧残，
直到它的芳菲
以过浓的香甜使鲁莽的飞贼沉醉；
Sound of vernal showers
On the twinkling grass,
Rain-awakened flowers,
All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
晶莹闪烁的草地，
春霖洒落的声息，
雨后苏醒的花瓣，
称得上明朗，欢悦，
清新的一切，都不及你的音乐。
Teach us, sprite or bird,
What sweet thoughts are thine:
I have never heard
Praise of love or wine
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
飞禽或是精灵，有什么
甜美的思绪在你心头？
我从没有听到过
爱情或是淳酒的颂歌
能够迸涌出这样神圣的极乐音流。
Chorus hymeneal
Or triumphal chaunt
Matched with thine, would be all
But an empty vaunt--
A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
赞婚的合唱也罢，
凯旋的欢歌也罢，
和你的乐曲相比，
不过是空调的浮夸，
人们可以觉察，其中总有着贫乏。
What objects are the fountains
Of thy happy strain?
What fields, or waves, or mountains?
What shapes of sky or plain?
What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
什么样的物象或事件，
是你欢乐乐曲的源泉？
什么田野、波涛、山峦？
什么空中陆上的形态？
是你对同类的爱，还是对痛苦的绝缘？
With thy clear keen joyance
Languor cannot be:
Shadow of annoyance
Never came near thee:
Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
有你明澈强烈的欢快。
倦怠永不会出现，
烦恼的阴影从来
近不得你的身边，
你爱，却从不知晓过分充满爱的悲哀。
Waking or asleep,
Thou of death must deem
Things more true and deep
Than we mortals dream,
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?
是醒来或是睡去，
你对死的理解一定比
我们凡人梦想到的
更加深刻真切，否则
你的乐曲音流，怎能象液态的水晶涌泻？
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
我们瞻前顾后，为了
不存在的事物自扰，
我们最真挚的笑，
也交织着某种苦恼，
我们最美的音乐是最能倾诉哀思的曲调。
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
可是，即使我们能摈弃
憎恨、傲慢和恐惧，
即使我们生来不会
抛洒一滴眼泪，
我也不知，怎能接近于你的欢愉。
Better than all measures
Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
比一切欢乐的音律
更加甜蜜美妙，
比一切书中的宝库
更加丰盛富饶，
这就是鄙弃尘土的你啊，你的艺术技巧。
Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now!
教给我一半，你的心
必定熟知的欢欣，
和谐、炽热的激情
就会流出我的双唇，
全世界就会象此刻的我——侧耳倾听。
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