A Birthday生日

By Christina Georgina Rossetti ——克里斯蒂娜·吉奥尔吉娜·罗塞蒂

My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a waterd shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thick-set 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 fleurs-de-lys;

Because the birthday of my life is come，

My love is come to me.

我的心像只鳴啼的小鸟，

在柔润的枝条上筑着巢;

我的心像苹果树，

被累累的硕果压弯了腰;

我的心像五彩缤纷的贝壳，

在平静的海上轻轻荡漾;

我的心比这些还更欢畅，

因为我的爱已经到来。

为我造一座丝绒的讲台;

用金色和紫色颜料涂染;

在上面雕刻鸽子和石榴，

还有孔雀长着一百只眼;

再用金银葡萄把它装扮，

树叶和鸢尾草银光闪闪;

因为我的生日已经来临，

因为我的爱已经到来。