情人节福利： 十首经典英文诗，提升一下浪漫指数
你不能拒绝巧克力
就像你不能拒绝爱情
You cannot refuse chocolate just as you cannot refuse love.
明天就是情人节了，浪漫如你，一定会对你的爱人说很多醉人的情话。下文将列举一些经典的英文情诗，相爱的人可以拿来虐狗，单身的人可以拿去表白。
By the way, wish all of you a happy and unforgettable Valentine's day!
01
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
-- William Shakespeare
莎翁不愧是情话高手，一个字：佩服！
02
Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West.
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
-- W. H. Auden
他是北方，是南方，是北方，是西方。。。他无处不在，我无处可逃！
好诗！好诗！
03
When you are old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
--- William Butler Yeats
我想对于这首诗，大家都再熟悉不过了，无论是中文版，还是英文版；无论是文字版，还是根据本诗改编的歌，无不家喻户晓。不多说，听一下抖森富有磁性的朗诵，或是去开头听一下李健深情的演唱。
04
Love
I love you,
Not for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.
I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.
—by Roy Croft
对于本诗的第一节，我想大家都很熟悉了，而这首诗其他的诗节也同样很美。你觉得呢？
06
A Red Red Rose
O, my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O, my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
—Robert Burns
这是一首广为流传的情诗，诗人把爱人比作玫瑰。记得明天送玫瑰的时候，也轻轻朗诵这首诗给她听。
07
Love after Love
The time will come
When, with elation
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror
And each will smile at the other's welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you
All your life, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
The photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
—Derek Walcott
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you.
很美的一首诗，极富有画面感。轻轻读，慢慢品味。
08
She Walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
—George Gordon Byron
读这首诗时，脑子里一直浮现曹植的《洛神赋》，“凌波微波，罗袜生尘”。我想美好的人，大抵都是相似的。
09
还有两首不知道诗名，也不知道作者的小诗，但却很美。
其一：
The rose is red.
The violet is blue.
The sugar is sweet,
So are you.
这首诗是个万能模板，你也可以根据自己的的需要改编。
The apple is red.
The lemon is yellow.
The skars are lovely,
So are you.
其二：
I love three things in the world：
the sun the moon and you.
The sun for the day,
the moon for the night,
and you for ever.
拥有了太阳，就拥有了白天；
拥有了月亮，就拥有了黑夜；
而有了你，
就有了永远。
后记
爱情是永恒的主题，美好的情诗又何止我所选的这九首、十首，只是用这些诗来祝愿天下有情人终成眷属，天长地久，十全十美！
Happy Valentine's Day to all!