Too rich to be enjoyed.

Or was it our division



Made all my pleasure void?

Across the window glasses



The curtain then I drew,

And, as a sea-bird passes,



In sleep my spirit flew

To grey and windswept grasses



And moonlit sands--and you.

WINTER AT ST. ANDREWS



The city once again doth wear

Her wonted dress of winter's bride,



Her mantle woven of misty air,

With saffron sunlightfaintly dyed.



She sits above the seething tide,

Of all her summer robes forlorn -



And dead is all her summer pride -

The leaves are off Queen Mary's Thorn.



All round, the landscape stretches bare,

The bleak fields lying far and wide,



Monotonous, with here and there

A lone tree on a lone hillside.



No more the land is glorified

With golden gleams of ripening corn,



Scarce is a cheerful hue descried -

The leaves are off Queen Mary's Thorn.



For me, I do not greatly care

Though leaves be dead, and mists abide.



To me the place is thrice as fair

In winter as in summer-tide:



With kindlier memories allied

Of pleasure past and pain o'erworn.



What care I, though the earth may hide

The leaves from off Queen Mary's Thorn?



Thus I unto my friend replied,

When, on a chill late autumn morn,



He pointed to the tree, and cried,

`The leaves are off Queen Mary's Thorn!'



PATRIOTISM

There was a time when it was counted high



To be a patriot--whether by the zeal

Of peaceful labour for the country's weal,



Or by the courage in her cause to die:

FOR KING AND COUNTRY was a rallying cry



That turned men's hearts to fire, their nerves to steel;

Not to unheeding ears did it appeal,



A pulpitformula, a platform lie.

Only a fool will wantonly desire



That war should come, outpouring blood and fire,

And bringing grief and hunger in her train.



And yet, if there be found no other way,

God send us war, and with it send the day



When love of country shall be real again!

SLEEP FLIES ME



Sleep flies me like a lover

Too eagerly pursued,



Or like a bird to cover

Within some distant wood,



Where thickest boughs roof over

Her secret solitude.



The nets I spread to snare her,

Although with cunning wrought,



Have only served to scare her,

And now she'll not be caught.



To those who best could spare her,

She ever comes unsought.



She lights upon their pillows;

She gives them pleasant dreams,



Grey-green with leaves of willows,

And cool with sound of streams,



Or big with tranquil billows,

On which the starlight gleams.



No vision fair entrances

• principal [´prinsəpəl] a.主要的 n.负责人 (初中英语单词)


• gesture [´dʒestʃə] n.手势 v.打手势 (初中英语单词)


• acquaintance [ə´kweintəns] n.相识；熟人，相识的人 (初中英语单词)


• barren [´bærən] a.贫瘠的；不生育的 (初中英语单词)


• cheerful [´tʃiəful] a.快乐的；高兴的 (初中英语单词)


• literature [´litərətʃə] n.文学；文献；著作 (初中英语单词)


• wholly [´həul-li] ad.完全，十足；统统 (初中英语单词)


• scarlet [´skɑ:lit] n.猩红色 a.猩红的 (初中英语单词)


• volume [´vɔlju:m, ´vɑljəm] n.卷；书籍；体积；容量 (初中英语单词)


• despite [di´spait] prep.尽管 (初中英语单词)


• character [´kæriktə] n.特性；性质；人物；字 (初中英语单词)


• contain [kən´tein] v.包含；容纳；抑制 (初中英语单词)


• admiration [,ædmə´reiʃən] n.赞赏，钦佩 (初中英语单词)


• reading [´ri:diŋ] n.(阅)读；朗读；读物 (初中英语单词)


• criticism [´kritisizəm] n.批评；评论(文) (初中英语单词)


• endeavour [in´devə] n.&v.努力，试图，尽力 (初中英语单词)


• disappointment [,disə´pɔintmənt] n.失望；挫折 (初中英语单词)


• enormous [i´nɔ:məs] a.巨大地，很，极 (初中英语单词)


• marvel [´mɑ:vəl] n.令人惊异的事；奇迹 (初中英语单词)


• illness [´ilnis] n.生病，不健康，疾病 (初中英语单词)


• poetry [´pəuitri] n.诗；诗意 (初中英语单词)


• writer [´raitə] n.作者；作家 (初中英语单词)


• delightful [di´laitful] a.讨人喜欢的 (初中英语单词)


• resolution [,rezə´lu:ʃən] n.决心；坚决；果断 (初中英语单词)


• sympathy [´simpəθi] n.同情，怜悯 (初中英语单词)


• considerable [kən´sidərəbəl] a.重要的；值得重视 (初中英语单词)


• moonlight [´mu:nlait] n.&a.月光(的) (初中英语单词)


• valley [´væli] n.谷；河谷；流域 (初中英语单词)


• pasture [´pɑ:stʃə] n.牧场；放牧 v.吃(草) (初中英语单词)


• sunlight [´sʌnlait] n.日光 (初中英语单词)


• pointed [´pɔintid] a.尖(锐)的；中肯的 (初中英语单词)


• peaceful [´pi:sfəl] a.和平的；平静的 (初中英语单词)


• platform [´plætfɔ:m] n.(平)台；讲台；站台 (初中英语单词)


• hunger [´hʌŋgə] n.饥饿；渴望 (初中英语单词)


• eagerly [´i:gəli] ad.渴望地，急切地 (初中英语单词)


• cunning [´kʌniŋ] a.&n.狡猾(诡诈)的 (初中英语单词)


• vision [´viʒən] n.视觉；想象力；幻影 (初中英语单词)


• consumption [kən´sʌmpʃən] n.消耗；结核病 (高中英语单词)


• educational [,edju´keiʃənəl] a.教育(上)的 (高中英语单词)


• mediterranean [,meditə´reiniən] n.地中海 a.地中海的 (高中英语单词)


• landscape [´lændskeip] n.风景；景色；风景画 (高中英语单词)


• concerned [kən´sə:nd] a.有关的；担心的 (高中英语单词)


• cambridge [´keimbridʒ] n.剑桥 (高中英语单词)


• displease [dis´pli:z] vt.使不高兴，使不快 (高中英语单词)


• pleasing [´pli:ziŋ] a.使人愉快的；合意的 (高中英语单词)


• precisely [pri´saisli] ad.精确地；刻板地 (高中英语单词)


• publisher [´pʌbliʃə] n.书籍出版者；发表者 (高中英语单词)


• hopeless [´həupləs] a.无望的，无可救药的 (高中英语单词)


• tenderness [´tendənis] n.娇嫩；柔软；温柔 (高中英语单词)


• correspondence [,kɔri´spɔndəns] n.通信；符合；相当 (高中英语单词)


• admirable [´ædmərəbəl] a.极佳的，值得赞美的 (高中英语单词)


• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)


• mantle [´mæntl] n.斗蓬 v.覆盖；笼罩 (高中英语单词)


• faintly [´feintli] ad.微弱地，软弱无力的 (高中英语单词)


• forlorn [fə´lɔ:n] a.被遗弃的；绝望的 (高中英语单词)


• formula [´fɔ:mjulə] n.公式；配方；原则 (高中英语单词)


• edinburgh [´edinbərə] n.爱丁堡 (英语四级单词)


• undertook [,ʌndə´tuk] undertake的过去式 (英语四级单词)


• delighted [di´laitid] a.高兴的；喜欢的 (英语四级单词)


• alexandria [,ælig´zɑ:ndriə] n.亚历山大 (英语四级单词)


• feverish [´fi:vəriʃ] a.发烧的；狂热的 (英语四级单词)


• hospitable [´hɔspitəbəl] a.好客的；招待周到的 (英语四级单词)


• buoyant [´bɔiənt] a.能漂浮的；快活的 (英语四级单词)


• wholesale [´həulseil] n.&vt.批发 a.批发的 (英语四级单词)


• wonderfully [´wʌndəfuli] ad.令人惊讶地；奇妙地 (英语四级单词)


• resolved [ri´zɔlvd] a.决心的；坚定的 (英语四级单词)


• beautifully [´bju:tifəli] ad.美丽地；优美地 (英语四级单词)


• wondrous [´wʌndrəs] a.极好的 ad.惊人地 (英语四级单词)


• loveliness [´lʌvlinis] n.美丽，可爱 (英语四级单词)


• thrice [θrais] ad.三倍地；三次 (英语四级单词)


• pulpit [´pulpit] n.讲坛 (英语四级单词)


• biographer [bai´ɔgrəfə] n.传记作家 (英语六级单词)


• laborious [lə´bɔ:riəs] a.吃力的 (英语六级单词)


• moonlit [´mu:n,lit] a.月光普照的 (英语六级单词)


• tranquil [´træŋkwil] a.平静的，稳定的 (英语六级单词)


• starlight [´stɑ:lait] n.星光 (英语六级单词)