EBB "The sonnets from the Portuguese", No. XV

Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear

Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;

For we too look two ways, and can not shine

With the same sunlight on our brow and hair.

On me thou lookest with no doubting care,

As on a bee shut in a crystalline, --

Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,

And to spread wing and fly in the outer air

Were most impossible failure, if I strove

To fail so. But I look on thee -- on thee --

Beholding, besides love, the end of love,

Hearing oblivion beyond memory!

As one who sits and gazes from above,

Over the rivers of the bitter sea.

白朗寧夫人抒情十四行詩集第十五首

請不要這樣指責我：我在你面前

露出一副太冷靜、憂郁的面容；

你我原是面朝著兩個不同的方向，

那普照的陽光照不到兩人的前額。

你看著我，心中沒半點兒不踏實，

象看著一只籠罩在水晶里的蜜蜂；

哀怨把我密封在圣潔的愛情中，

想張開雙翼，撲向外面的空間、

是絕不可能的失敗－－哪怕我狠著心

追求這顛撲和失敗。可是我向你看，

我看見了愛，還看到了愛的結局，

聽到了記憶外層的哪一片寂寥！

就象從千層萬丈之上，你向下眺望，

只見滾滾的浪濤盡向大海里流。