試譯“POETRY 詩是什麽” b?y Eleanor Farjeon

POETRY 詩是什麽

Eleanor Farjeon

 

 

What is Poetry? Who knows?

詩為何，胡知之？

Not a rose, but the scent of the rose;

隱花形，溢沁香；

Not the sky, but the light in the sky;

非空穹，瀉天光；

Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly;

非流螢，秀窈翔；

Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;

非海潮，濤聲揚；

Not myself, but what makes me

藏我身，呈心想。

See, hear, and feel something that prose

且觀，且聽，且思量，詩隨意揚。

Cannot: and what it is, who knows.

意頓筆拙又如何：詩為誰，胡知之。