2016-07-18

【Le Pont Mirabeau】

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880—1918)

         Under the Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine

         And our loves

         Must I remember them

        &nb

2016-07-18

【Au lac de tes yeux】

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880—1918)

                 Au lac de tes yeux très profond

                 Mon pauvre cœur se noie et fond

                 Là le défont

2016-07-18

【Rhineland Night】

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880—1918)

      My glass is full of wine, trembling like a flame

      Listen to the slow song of the boatman

     Who tells of seeing seven women under the light of the moon

      Twisting their long green hair to t

2016-07-18

【Aiden in English】

    Finally, we're going into a brand-new country. Not to offend any Englishmen, but you're getting old. Therefore, out with the old and in with the latest. 

    Paris is the face of modern Europe. Although the UK runs every atom of the continent, France still has its

2016-07-17

【Aiden in English／红霞译】

With a beginning comes the end. 时有终始。

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【Tomorrow】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?

2016-07-16

【Mistress Mine】

William Shakespeare (1564—1616)

            O, mistress! Where are you roaming?

            O! Stay and hear; your true love is coming

2016-07-16

【True Love • Sonnet 116】

William Shakespeare (1564—1616)

         Let me not to the marriage of the minds

         Admit impediments. Love is not love

         Which alters when it alteration finds,

         Or bends with the remover to

2016-07-16

【Astrophil and Stella 31 • With How Sad Steps, O Moon】

Philip Sidney (1554—1586)

         With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies!

         How silently, and with how wan a face!

         What! may it be that even in a heavenly place

  &nbs

2016-07-16

【Leave Me, O Love】

Philip Sidney (1554—1586)

         Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust；

         And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things；

         Grow rich in that which never taketh rust．

         Whatever fades, but fading

2016-07-16

【A Lament】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

             O world! O life! O time!

             On whose last steps I climb,

             Trembling at that where I

2016-07-16

【Aiden in English】

        One would think that the British are strict in regulation. The one area in which this does not come into play is recreation. As much as Americans are stereotypical, the residents in the UK have fun, too. Although we probably would never admit it, their country, in recent years, has been

2016-07-15

【When Soft Voices Die】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            Music, when soft voices die

            Vibrates in the memory

            Odors, when sweet v

2016-07-15

【To a Skylark】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

         Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

         Bird thou never wert,

         That from Heaven, or near it,

         Pourest thy full heart

         In profuse strains of

2016-07-15

【Ozymandias】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

         I met a traveler from an antique land,

         Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

         Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

         Half sunk a shattered vi

2016-07-15

【Aiden in English】

        I don't believe in monsters that live at the bottom of lakes and have never been seen or detected by modern instruments. I also don't believe in monsters that eat humans. But apparently, most of the world thinks otherwise... 

     &nbs

2016-07-14

【Ode to the West Wind • V】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

             Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

             What if my leaves are falling like its own!

             The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

  &

2016-07-14

【Ode to the West Wind • IV】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

         If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;

         If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;

         A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

       &nbs

2016-07-14

【Ode to the West Wind • III】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

       Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams

       The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,

       Lull'd by the coil of his cryst{`a}lline streams,

    &nbs

2016-07-14

【Ode to the West Wind • II】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

         Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,

         Loose clouds like the earth's decaying leaves are shed,

         Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,

2016-07-14

【Ode to the West Wind • I】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

           O wild West Wind, thou breathe of Autumn's being,

           Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

           Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

2016-07-14

【Love's Philosophy】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            The fountains mingle with the river,

            And the rivers with the ocean;

            T

2016-07-14

【Aiden in English】

        In the UK, there are thousands of stone circles. Not to crush any dreams, but unfortunately, Stonehenge near London is not a one-of-a-kind weird stone structure built in a circle in England. It is standard in the countryside for a farmer to uncover or settle next to mysterious pieces of rock

2016-07-13

【Rise Like Lions】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            Rise like lions after slumber

            In unvanquishable number——

            Shake your chains

2016-07-13

【Aiden in English】

         The ocean is life; 

         You stare at your mirror self on the waters, 

         Being disorientated by waves through time. 

2016-07-12

【A Widow Bird】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

             A widow bird sate mourning for her love

             Upon a wintry bough;

             The frozen wind crept on above,

             The freezi

2016-07-12

【To — • II】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion,

            Thou needest not fear mine;

            Innocen

2016-07-12

【To — • I】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden,

            Thou needest not fear mine;I

            My spiri

2016-07-12

【On Fanny Godwin】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

            Her voice did quiver as we parted,

            Yet knew I not that heart was broken

            Fro

2016-07-12

【The Past】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

        Wilt thou forget the happy hours

        Which we buried in love's sweet bowers,

        Heaping over their corpses cold

       &nbs

2016-07-12

【Aiden in English】

        Do the people of Scotland drink whisky without an "e"? Well, they do, and it is probably the most popular drink. With a requirement to be fermented for three years, it is a potent, alcoholic beverage that every Scottish man enjoys. For every second, two percent

2016-07-11

【A Dirge】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

                 Rough wind,that moanest loud

                 Grief too sad for song;

                 Wild wind,when sullen cloud

2016-07-11

【The Moon】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

             And, like a dying lady lean and pale,

             Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,

             Out of her chamber, led by the insane

        &nb

2016-07-11

【A Hate-Song】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

          A hater he came and sat by a ditch,

          And he took an old cracked lute;

        And he sang a song which was more of a screech

          'Gainst

2016-07-11

【The Indian Serenade】

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

               I arise from dreams of thee

               In the first sweet sleep of night,

               When the winds are breathing low,  

2016-07-11

【Stanzas For Music】

George Gordon Byron (1788—1824)

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away

When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay;

'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast,

But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

  &n

2016-07-11

【Aiden in English】

        Notice how I'm referring to it as "Northern" Ireland. It is technically a different country, as it operates under a separate government and leadership, but it is still considered part of the UK. Ireland was divided when the nation declared independence from

2016-07-10

【Leda and the Swan】

William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature for Wintering Out in 1923〗

          A sudden blow: the great wings beating still

          Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed

          By the dark webs, her nape caught in

2016-07-10

【When You Are Old】

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature for "Leda and the Swan" in 1923〗

        When you are old and gray and full of sleep,

          And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

         &

2016-07-10

【Travel】 

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature for Wintering Out Poetry in 1995〗

             Oxen supporting their heads

             into the afternoon sun,

             melons studding the hill like brass:

2016-07-10

【Oracle】 

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature for Wintering Out Poetry in 1995〗

                Hide in the hollow trunk

                of the willow tree,

&n

2016-07-10

【Aiden in English】

        The Irish are a much-labeled type of people, with stereotypes haunting every aspect of their culture. Some may say they like the color green, but it is considered somewhat unlucky in their culture. Leprechauns are real people. They were just mistaken as mythical beings by

2016-07-09

【Broagh】 

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature for Wintering Out Poetry in 1995〗

                Riverbank, the long rigs

                ending in broad docke

2016-07-09

【Anahorish】 

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature for Wintering Out Poetry in 1995〗

                My ‘place of clear water’,

                the first hill i

2016-07-09

【Wedding Day】

Seamus Heaney (1939—2013)

〖Nobel Prize for Literature of Wintering Out Poetry in 1995〗

                      I am afraid.

                Sound has stopped in the day

  &nb

2016-07-09

【Aiden in English】

        I'm not a superstitious person. Not that I don't say a favored team of mine will win, because I wear my lucky socks, which are considered lucky. The supernatural, fictional idea of having an outside force changing an outcome for the unfavored is not only for the w

2016-07-08

【I picked this flower for you on the hilltop…】

Victor Hugo (1802—1885)

      I picked this flower for you on the hilltop.

      In the steep scarp that overhangs the tide,

      Which only eagles know and only they can reach,

      Calmly she grew on the rock'

2016-07-08

【Lamentation of Damaris】

George Métivier (1790—1881)

          Old Fountain Street’s all in a flutter,

          Its dwellers are all in a stew,

          There is growling from garret to gutter,

          That the old must

2016-07-08

【Aiden in English】

        The first stop of our English Isles cruise is at the small island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, the Sunshine Island. The natives are "stubborn as a mule, with a kick like a horse!" Being part of the Crown dependencies, it is considered the last remnants of

2016-07-07

【She Walks in Beauty】

George Gordon Byron (1788—1824)

            She walks in Beauty, like the night

            Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

           &nbs