To daffodils

Fair daffodils，we weep to see

you haste away so soon;

as yet the early-rising sun

has not attain'd his noon.

Stay，stay，

until the hasting day

has run

but to the even-song;

and，having pray'd together， we

will go with you along.

We have short time to stay， as you;

we have as short a spring;

as quick a growth to meet decay，

as you，or anything.

we die，

as your hours do，and dry

away

like to the summer's rain，

or as the pearls of morning's dew，

ne'er to be found again.

----- Robert Herrick

詠黃水仙花

美的黃水仙，凋謝的太快，

我們感覺著悲哀;

連早晨出來的太陽

都還沒有上升到天蓋。

停下來，停下來，

等匆忙的日腳

跑進

黃昏的木暮靄;

在那時共同祈禱著，

在回家的路上徘徊。

我們也只有短暫的停留，

青春的易逝堪憂;

我們方生也就方死，

和你們一樣，

一切都要罷休。

你們謝了，

我們也要去了，

如同夏雨之驟，

或如早上的露珠，

永無痕跡可求。

-----羅伯特·哈里克