since feeling is first

By: E. E. Cummings

since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,

and kisses are a better fate

than wisdom

lady i swear by all the flowers. Don't cry

- the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis

当感情飘然而至

E. E. Cummings著 长风译

当感情飘然而至，

谁会循规蹈矩，

不在热吻中酣畅淋漓？

不在爱情中如醉如痴？

大地春意盎然，

热血沸腾的我抛却理智，

只想深情地吻你。

美人，我指着四周的鲜花起誓，别哭泣！

我深思熟虑，

那能比得了你闪动着睫毛说“

我们至死不渝！”

而后枕在我的臂弯里，尽情欢愉。

因为生活是我们在世上精彩的演绎，

死亡也不能阻止我们爱情的延续。