春天英文诗词

刘莉莉

春天英文诗词

  by William Carlos Williams

  By the road to the contagious hospital

  under the surge of the blue

  mottled clouds driven from the

  northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the

  waste of broad, muddy fields

  brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

  patches of standing water

  the scattering of tall trees

  All along the road the reddish

  purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy

  stuff of bushes and small trees

  with dead, brown leaves under them

  leafless vines-

  Lifeless in appearance, sluggish

  dazed spring approaches-

  They enter the new world naked,

  cold, uncertain of all

  save that they enter. All about them

  the cold, familiar wind-

  Now the grass, tomorrow

  the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf

  One by one objects are defined-

  It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

  But now the stark dignity of

  entrance-Still, the profound change

  has come upon them: rooted, they

  grip down and begin to awaken