名诗欣赏--Shelley 雪莱 无常

MUTABILITY
　　The flower that smiles to-day
　　To-morrow dies;
　　All that we wish to stay
　　Tempts and then flies.
　　What is this world’s delight?
　　Lightning that mocks the night,
　　Brief even as bright.


　　Virtue, how frail it is!
　　Friendship how rare!
　　Love, how it sells poor bliss
　　For proud despair!
　　But we, though soon they fall,
　　Survive their joy, and all
　　Which ours we call.

　　Whilst skies are blue and bright,
　　Whilst flowers are gay,
　　Whilst eyes that change ere night
　　Make glad the day;
　　Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
　　Dream thou--and from thy sleep
　　Then wake to weep.


　　Notes:

　　1. frail：脆弱的。

　　2. bliss：极乐

　　3.But these though soon they fall, / Survive their joy, and all/ Which ours we call.--: But though these soon fall, they survive their joy, and all which we call ours(our joy).