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因為在研讀Northanger abbey中提到一些浪漫詩人像雪萊Shelley 我因此而搜尋了這首詩 致雲雀 還有一首叫 西風頌 “Ode to the West Wind”

把昏睡的大地喚醒吧！要是冬天
已經來了，西風呵，春日怎能遙遠？

I was studying Northanger Abbey and it mentioned some poets and I ran into Shelley and his poems.

http://jameshung2010.pixnet.net/blog/post/36349489  致雲雀 中文翻譯 Chinese translation of this poem

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides8/Skylark.html  致雲雀 英文賞析 English site

To A Skylark 

      Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
           Bird thou never wert,¹
      That from Heaven, or near it,
           Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art...............................................5

      Higher still and higher
           From the earth thou springest
    Like a cloud of fire;²
           The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest............................10

      In the golden lightning
           Of the sunken sun,
      O'er which clouds are bright'ning,
           Thou dost float and run;
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun....................................15

      The pale purple even
           Melts around thy flight;
      Like a star of Heaven,
           In the broad day-light
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight,..................................20

      Keen as are the arrows
           Of that silver sphere,³
      Whose intense lamp narrows
           In the white dawn clear
Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there...........................................25

      All the earth and air
           With thy voice is loud,
      As, when night is bare,
           From one lonely cloud
The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflow'd.......................30

      What thou art we know not;
           What is most like thee?
      From rainbow clouds there flow not
           Drops so bright to see
As from thy presence showers a rain of melody....................................35

    Like a Poet hidden
         In the light of thought,⁴
      Singing hymns unbidden,
           Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:..................................40

      Like a high-born maiden
           In a palace-tower,
      Soothing her love-laden
           Soul in secret hour
With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower:............................45

      Like a glow-worm⁵ golden
           In a dell of dew,
      Scattering unbeholden
           Its aereal hue
Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view:....................50

      Like a rose embower'd
           In its own green leaves,
      By warm winds deflower'd,
           Till the scent it gives
Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves:..................55

      Sound of vernal showers
           On the twinkling grass,
      Rain-awaken'd flowers,
           All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass...............................60

      Teach us, Sprite or Bird,
           What sweet thoughts are thine:
      I have never heard
           Praise of love or wine
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.............................................65

      Chorus Hymeneal,⁶
           Or triumphal chant,
      Match'd with thine would be all
           But an empty vaunt,
A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want....................................70

      What objects are the fountains
           Of thy happy strain?
      What fields, or waves, or mountains?
           What shapes of sky or plain?
What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?................................75

      With thy clear keen joyance
           Languor cannot be:
      Shadow of annoyance
           Never came near thee:
Thou lovest: but ne'er knew love's sad satiety............................................80

      Waking or asleep,
           Thou of death must deem
      Things more true and deep
           Than we mortals dream,
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?...............................85

We look before and after,
           And pine for what is not:
      Our sincerest laughter
           With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought..........................90

      Yet if we could scorn
           Hate, and pride, and fear;
      If we were things born
           Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.......................................95

      Better than all measures
           Of delightful sound,
      Better than all treasures
           That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!.....................................100

      Teach me half the gladness
           That thy brain must know,
      Such harmonious madness
           From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now....................................105