休斯是最廣為人知的是哈萊姆文藝復興的領袖， 他的代表作 The Negro Speaks of Rivers  以下的翻译是转载 http://baike.baidu.com/view/667511.htm不知道是谁翻译的。 Raise句 looks like被翻译错了。



Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967
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I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
     flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
     went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.



  
黑人谈河流


我了解河流：

我了解像世界一样的古老的河流，

比人类血管中流动的血液更古老的河流。

我的灵魂变得像河流一般的深邃。

晨曦中我在幼发拉底河沐浴，

在刚果河畔我盖了一间茅舍，

河水潺潺催我入眠。

我瞰望尼罗河，在河畔建造了金字塔。

当林肯去新奥尔良时，

我听到密西西比河的歌声，

我瞧见它那浑浊的胸膛

在夕阳下闪耀的金光。

我了解河流：

古老的黝黑的河流。

我的灵魂变得像河流一般深邃。

秋之语（原创）

（學寫雙語詩，祝大家秋安大吉！ 不吝賜教）

HTTP://www.writingforums.com/threads/160860-The-Autumn-s-Words

悄悄的, 我帶來了一片溫柔，
我輕輕地揮手， 把天邊的雲層抹走，
吹了一口氣，花香便繼續漂浮，
麥穗也跟著沙沙地歡呼，等候豐收。

河邊的那頭牛，
它慢慢地咀嚼，放鬆和享受。
舒緩寫意，富態無憂
是農舍附近的豬，正呼呼酣睡。

天上的大雁有了新的追求：
它們連群結隊地往南飛，
一路高歌，穿越海洋和山丘，
留下山邊的溪水依舊奔流。

我抖一抖衣袖，
把帶來的顏料撒落在北嶽，
那裡浣熊成群，瑞鹿呦呦，
南嶺也跟著慢慢變得斑斕起來...

月兒圓過之後又如鉤，
又像彎彎的眉毛，
她永遠的清純，淺笑含羞，
幾千年來， 醉倒多少文人墨客 ...



（Oct 12， 2015  开车游览附近层林尽染的自然公园Natural Park ）
每一个Stanza的第一和第三句押韵，押韵的字如下：

尤邮优忧流旒留骝榴刘由油游猷悠攸牛修羞秋周州洲舟酬雠柔俦畴筹稠丘邱抽瘳遒收鸠搜驺愁休囚求裘仇浮谋牟眸侔矛侯喉猴讴鸥楼陬偷头投钩沟幽纠啾楸蚯踌绸惆勾娄琉疣犹邹兜呦咻貅球蜉蝣辀帱阄瘤硫浏庥湫泅酋瓯啁飕鍪篌抠篝诌骰偻沤[水泡,名词]蝼髅搂欧彪掊虬揉蹂抔不[与有韵"否"通]瓿缪[绸缪]


等你我等了那么久
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ygkcMOtYI

http://www.writingforums.com/threads/160860-The-Autumn-s-Words  
秋本不愁， 是人加了一个心使之变愁了。  秋是收获的时候，快乐的时节。

Here I am, quietly, bringing love and care:
I wave gently-- wiping off the clouds on the horizon,
I give a puff-- scents of flowers keep floating in the air,
Wheat  ears cheer joyfully, waiting for the harvest.

By the river, sitting a cow
she chews slowly,  enjoying a relaxing break.
The happy-go-lucky fellow
near the farmhouse, a pig is sound asleep.

The geese in the sky have a new dream to fulfill:
They fly south, in swarms,
singing all the way, they fly through seas and many a hill,
leaving mountain brooks keep running alone.

I shake my sleeves,  the pigment  
I've  brought, fall on the north mountain top
where live raccoons and deer' cries there are constant,
and in the south now it becomes colorful as well.

The full moon these days has become a hook,
also appears to be like a curved eyebrow,
her forever fresh, smiley and shy look,
since ancient times, has charmed so many literary giants...

But he spoke to re-assure me,
And he kissed my pallid brow,
While a reverie came o'er me,
And to the church-yard bore me,
And I sighed to him before me,
Thinking him dead D'Elormie,
"Oh, I am happy now!"
但他再向我保證，
而且吻了我蒼白的額頭，
当遐想向我袭来，
在这个让我不由自己的教堂庭院，
我对在我面前的他歎了一口氣，
想着他是逝去的 D'Elormie
"哦，我现在很幸福!"


多谢各位老师指正我译这几句 Thanks in advance!  (找到了两个版本但好像译者没有理解原文或是我没理解好） D'Elormie
名字怎么译？
答案将据为我有 I am doing a big project

找到了一些分析  [url]http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004DQo


Thanks for the "raise"  comment，谢谢你对Raise的看法。 我进一步看了有关资料，那个译文是对的。   http://www.shmoop.com/negro-speaks-of-rivers/freedom-confinement-quotes.html

【新娘的歌谣】  Bridal Ballad 作者：Edgar Allan Poe   愛德格•愛倫•坡

The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.

And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he breathed his vow,
I felt my bosom swell-
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed his who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.

But he spoke to re-assure me,
And he kissed my pallid brow,
While a reverie came o'er me,
And to the church-yard bore me,
And I sighed to him before me,
Thinking him dead D'Elormie,
"Oh, I am happy now!"

And thus the words were spoken,
And this the plighted vow,
And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!

Would God I could awaken!
For I dream I know not how!
And my soul is sorely shaken
Lest an evil step be taken,-
Lest the dead who is forsaken
May not be happy now.

蕭伯納说过：美國出了兩個偉大的作家：愛倫•坡 和馬克•吐溫。除了作家的身份，愛倫•坡还是詩人， 編輯和文學批評家，是美國文學界的浪漫主義思潮時期的先鋒人物。 他最出名的是寫神秘和恐怖故事。 在美國，愛倫 • 坡的最早的短篇故事作家之一，是偵探小說流派的创始者。 他在科幻小說的新興流派作出的貢獻，功不可沒。愛德格•愛倫•坡的一生可谓命运多舛。爱伦出生于1809年1月19日，卒于1849年10月7日巴爾的摩的街头；死因没有最终确定，但不同程度地被认为与酒精， 腦充血，霍亂，藥物，心臟疾病，狂犬病，自殺和肺結核等病因有关。 这个诗人一生充满了悲剧色彩。一岁时候他父亲抛弃家庭出走，母亲次年病死，他后来被人领养。早期得到良好的教育，但后来与养父吵架后养父拒绝对他的经济支持。他想以写作谋生结果碰上经济萧条，出版社老板压扣稿费，穷途末路，生活拮据。 幸得朋友的帮助出版了一些诗集。 26岁时与13岁的表妹结婚，后来太太因病早逝。后来他去追求一个女诗人，结果人家嫌他是酒鬼，没有答应。 诗人染上酗酒，赌博等不良嗜好，最后离奇地死在街头。爱伦死后评论界赞贬参半，叶芝撰文批评他写的东西低俗。（ 诗人简评）   作者：Xiaoman  Oct. 16， 2015