英汉对照|托马斯诗选：我来领会你的声音

I have come to catch your voice

I have come to catch your voice,

Your constructed notes going out of the throat

With dry, mechanical gestures,

To catch the shaft

Although it is so straight and unbending;

Then, when I open my mouth,

The light will come in an unwavering line.

Then to catch night

Wading through her dark cave on ferocious wings.

Oh, eagle-mouthed,

I have come to pluck you,

And take away your exotic plumage,

Although your anger is not a slight thing,

Take you into my own place

Where the frost can never fall,

Nor the petals of any flower drop.

我来领会你的声音

我来领会你的声音，

你构思的音符，在喉口翻涌，

干涩呆板的手势，

赶上这束光，

尽管如此的直接而决然;

然后，当我开口亮嗓，

光就会进来，成一条坚定的直线。

随后赶上夜晚，

展开凶猛的翅翼，涉水蹚过她黑暗的洞穴。

哦，鹰嘴，

我来拔下你，

拔走你外来的羽毛，

尽管你的愤怒不是件小事，

带你进入我的领地，

那里不见霜降，

更不见一片花瓣落下。