【Donne, 02】 -CONFINED LOVE.

【Donne, 02】 -CONFINED LOVE.

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【英韻淺探】
【Donne, 02】

No man is an Island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the Continent,
a part of the main.
-John Donne
人，總有歸屬，像是一片陸州，不會像座島，
自個孤獨，寂寥。

Are sun, moon, or stars by law forbidden
To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
-“CONFINED LOVE”

日月星辰，宇宙法規，煦煦生輝，普照天下。

陽光笑了，月亮笑了，星星就閃爍，
天象如此還是宇宙法規？
隨便發光就是天大過錯？

一語試譯

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CONFINED LOVE.
by John Donne

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        CONFINED LOVE.
by John Donne

    Some man unworthy to be possessor
Of old or new love, himself being false or weak,
    Thought his pain and shame would be lesser,
If on womankind he might his anger wreak ;
        And thence a law did grow,
        One might but one man know ;
        But are other creatures so?

    Are sun, moon, or stars by law forbidden
To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
    Are birds divorced or are they chidden
If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?
        Beasts do no jointures lose
        Though they new lovers choose ;
        But we are made worse than those.

    Who e'er rigg'd fair ships to lie in harbours,
And not to seek lands, or not to deal with all?
    Or built fair houses, set trees, and arbours,
Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?
        Good is not good, unless
        A thousand it possess,
        But doth waste with greediness.

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Source:
Donne, John. Poems of John Donne. vol I.
E. K. Chambers, ed.
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. 37.

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Author:John Donne, Definitions of John Donne on the Web: Donne: English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631) wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn John Donne ( "dunn"; 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English Jacobean poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne

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To be translated,

CONFINED LOVE.
by John Donne
    Some man unworthy to be possessor
Of old or new love, himself being false or weak,
    Thought his pain and shame would be lesser,
If on womankind he might his anger wreak ;
        And thence a law did grow,
        One might but one man know ;
        But are other creatures so?

    Are sun, moon, or stars by law forbidden
To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
    Are birds divorced or are they chidden
If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?
        Beasts do no jointures lose
        Though they new lovers choose ;
        But we are made worse than those.

    Who e'er rigg'd fair ships to lie in harbours,
And not to seek lands, or not to deal with all?
    Or built fair houses, set trees, and arbours,
Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?
        Good is not good, unless
        A thousand it possess,
        But doth waste with greediness.

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【英韻淺探】【Classics】【自習】【Independent Research】
Noted for future diggings, personal language interest only!
08 2009

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