世界名家经典诗歌精选:Snow in the Suburbs

Snow in the Suburbs

by Thomas Hardy

Every branch big with it,

Bent every twig with it ;

Every fork like a white web-foot;

Every street and pavement mute:

Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward, when

Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.

The palings are glued together like a wall,

And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall.

A sparrow enters the tree

Whereon immediately

A snow-lump thrice his own slight size

Descends on him and showers his head and eyes.

And overturns him

And near inurns him,

And lights on a nether twig, when its brush

Starts off a volley of other lodging lumps with a rush.

The steps are a blanched slope,

Up which, with feeble hope,

A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin,

And we take him in.

--托马斯·哈代
　

雪使树干变粗了，

雪把树枝压弯了；

一个个树杈都嵌满白雪，

一条条街巷都人声寂灭。

雪花迷失了路转向上飞去，

遇到新的雪花一齐向下飘去。

条条篱笆被雪花连成一片围墙，

静悄悄中鹅毛大雪在飞翔。

一只麻雀飞上了树枝，

摇落一团团银絮，

雪块有它的三倍大，

朝着它的头和眼睛洒下。

雪块冲倒了麻雀，

几乎把它埋在雪窝。

麻雀飞到低枝上栖歇，

又抖落树枝上片片玉屑。

台阶变成了白色斜坡，

走来一支有气无力的黑猫，

饥饿的大眼睛，骨瘦如柴，

我们把它抱了进来。