十 迈克尔·德雷顿：Since There’s No Help（又名：Love's Farewell爱之永诀）
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part;
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou mightst him yet recover.
迈克尔·德雷顿
译文：
既然无可挽回，
来让我们吻别吧；
也罢，我已疲倦，
你我从此两清，互不相欠。
我高兴，真的，我满心欢喜
为着再无牵挂，自在清静；
握手永诀，让誓言随风。
当我们再次偶遇，
愿彼此的眉间
再无半点旧情。
而今，当他脉搏渐消，
当激情沉默无声，
当忠贞跪伏于死亡之榻，
当纯洁合上眼睛，
爱的最后召唤令他一息尚存。
此刻，当全世界将他放弃，
如果你愿意，
你依然可以让他起死回生。
九 伊丽莎白·芭蕾特·布朗宁：How Do I Love Thee(我是多么爱你）
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
布朗宁
译文一
我是多么爱你？让我一一述说
我爱你的深度、宽广、高度
延及到心灵，当不在一起时我感到
生命尽了还有全部的祈祷
我爱你的程度达到每天
不可或缺，就像太阳和烛光一样
我慷慨的爱你，就像人类为正义而战
我纯洁的爱你，就像人类带来的称赞
我爱你用尽我所有的激情
在我暮年悲痛时，我爱你如童年的信仰
我爱你似乎要失去我这个虔诚的信徒--我爱你
就像呼吸、微笑和眼泪融入我的生命。-还有，
如果上帝让决定
我死了以后也会加倍的爱你。
译文二：
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
吾爱汝深深几许？今且听吾细数之
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
欲言情深深似海，欲状情厚更无垠
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
此心幽幽不可名，此情切切绕魂灵
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
奉祷三生冀神佑，执手一诺许终生
I love thee to the level of everyday's
思君不见日难度，柔情入盏饮朝暮
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
于昼不可无金乌，是夜岂能少龙烛
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
吾心真率无犹疑，坦若君子承浩气
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
吾爱纯粹无污秽，洁如赞歌携颂回
I love thee with the passion put to use
此情灼灼如烈焰，为汝独燃无余烬
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
倘若迟暮生悲痛，梦归童乡拾彼心
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
曾疑应舍白头意，仿若迷徒失圣心
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
而今终得汝相惜，一呼一吸两相系
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
焕彩重描笑与泪，生生世世不相离
I shall but love thee better after death.
死后神明若问起，有过之而无不及
八 珀西·比希·雪莱：（Love’s Philosophy：爱的哲学）
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
雪莱
译文：
泉水汇入溪流，
溪流汇入海洋，
天际缕缕清风总是交织而至，
甜蜜涌动；
这世上没有什么是形单影只的，
万物都遵循一条神圣的定律，
相存相依——
你我何不如此？
你看山川亲吻高天，
朵朵浪花相依相拥；
花儿也如兄弟姐妹般相亲相爱，
不嫌弃彼此；
阳光与大地相拥，
月光亲吻着海洋——
这一切亲吻有何意义，
倘若你不肯吻我？
七 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治（love：恋爱）
