双语诗歌|叶芝：海伦在世时 When Helen Lived

　　When Helen Lived

　　We have cried in our despair

　　That men desert,

　　For some trivial affair

　　Or noisy, insolent sport,

　　Beauty that we have won

　　From bitterest hours;

　　Yet we, had we walked within

　　Those topless towers

　　Where Helen walked with her boy,

　　Had given but as the rest

　　Of the men and women of Troy,

　　A word and a jest.

　　海伦在世时

　　我们曾绝望地呼喊：

　　人们为了一些琐屑的、

　　纷扰无益的事情

　　而放弃了那位从艰难时日里

　　赢得的美女;

　　然而，若我们也缓步在

　　古代的高塔里，

　　看海伦与她的恋人走过，

　　我们也只如特洛伊的男男女女，

　　向她打个招呼，开句玩笑。