希腊诗歌选

以下均取自Burton Raffel翻译的诗集Pure Pagan
Plato
Time
Everything comes from time.
Time changes
names
shapes
nature
fortune:
Everything.

--
Hegemon
Thermopylae
Passing this tomb, some somber stranger
Might say: "Here the courage of a thousand Spartans
Stopped a million Persians, and died facing
The enemy. This is what Sparta means."

--
Alkaios
True Luxury
And the sky god pours down rain,
And the clouds whirl, and rivers freeze:
So: keep your fire high
And pour out honey-sweet wine
And lie back
With a pillow on this side,
And a pillow on that side.

Courage
When courage is what he needs
He finds it in himself.

--
Anon.
Epitaph
Seafarer, don't bother about my name.
Pray for a kinder sea.