经典诗歌：舞台之爱

　　阿尔杰农·查尔斯·斯温伯恩

　　帷幕拉开,他们登台演戏两人联袂,

　　男演国王女演王后最为般配;

　　泪水化作笑声,笑声却柔如泪水,

　　这本是她多年的梦想,不料会充满伤悲。

　　欢乐中唇焦舌燥,痛苦里夜不能寐，

　　长久的欢乐有刺痛伴随;

　　当她与半真的情人表演半假的爱情,

　　她对此一无所知毫无体会。

　　尽管脚本最后要他们又哭又笑,

　　让他今天织网明天又去扯碎,

　　伤害他,作弄他,叫他去死,

　　他在剧中真的死去,落幕后他满脸热泪。

　　时光易逝时光无限谁能品出真味?

　　爱情怎样滋长、欢笑、痛哭又消退?

　　这一切她开始懂得,开始用心思量,

　　当取悦一位男士的演出到此收尾。

　　Stage Love

　　Algernon Charles Swinburne

　　When the game began between them for a jest,

　　He played king and she played queen to match the best;

　　Laughter soft as tears, and tears that turned to laughter,

　　These were things she sought for years and sorrowed after.

　　Pleasure with dry lips, and pain that walks by night;

　　All the sting and all the stain of long delight;

　　These were things she knew not of, that knew not of her,

　　When she played at half a love with half a lover.

　　Time was chorus, gave them cues to laugh or cry;

　　They would kill, befool, amuse him, let him die;

　　Set him webs to weave to-day and break to-morrow,

　　Till he died for good in play, and rose in sorrow.

　　What the years mean; how time dies and is not slain;

　　How love grows and laughs and cries and wanes again;

　　These were things she came to know, and take their measure,

　　When the play was played out so for one man’s pleasure.