希望--勃朗特

希望只是个羞怯的友伴
她坐在我的囚牢之外
以自私者的冷眼旁观
观察我的命运的好歹
她因胆怯而如此冷酷
郁闷的一天
我透过铁栏
想看到我的希望的面目
却见她立即背转了脸
像一个假看守在假意监视
一面敌对一面又暗示和平
当我哀泣时她吟唱歌词
当我静听她却噤口无声
她心如铁石而且虚假
当我最后的欢乐落英遍地
见此悲惨的遗物四处抛撒
就连“哀愁”也遗憾不已
而希望
她本来能悄悄耳语
为痛苦欲狂者搽膏止痛
却伸展双翼向天堂飞去
一去不回
从此不见影踪
Hope was but a
timid friend
She sat without
the grated den
Watching how my
fate would tend
Even as
selfish-hearted men
She was cruel in
her fear
Through the bars
one weary day
I looked out to
see her there
And she turned
her face away
Like a false
guard false watch keeping
Still in
strife she whispered peace
She would sing
while I was weeping
If I
listened she would cease
False she
was and unrelenting
When my last
joys strewed the ground
Even Sorrow
saw repenting
Those sad relics
scattered round
Hope, whose
whisper would have given
Balm to all my
frenzied pain
Stretched her
wings and soared to heaven
Went and ne'er returned
again