An Inkwash Painting① Guo Moruo The sea was a ghastly② dark blue.The gentle waves licking at the shore gave forth a humming sound like that of fish in shoals. All that forebod...

  Chance by Xu Zhimo I am a cloud in the sky, A chance shadow on the wave of your heart. Don‘t be surprised, Or too elated; In an instant I shall vanish without trace. We mee...

A SONG OF CHANGGAN Li Bai My hair had hardly covered my forehead. I was picking flowers, paying by my door, When you, my lover, on a bamboo horse, Came trotting in circle...

Snow flows over a quiet village； Doves fly across a gloomy sky. Two names are carved deep on a birch； They promised to stay in love all their life.   One day war broke out i...

  If 如果 By Joseph Rudyard Kipling 吉卜林 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself w...

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and...

Meeting at Night    The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their...

Why the Roses Are So Pale Heinrich Heine Dearest, canst thou tell me why The rose should be so pale? And why the Azure violet Should wither in the vale? And why the lark should i...

Lamp of Love Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame---is such thy fate, my heart? Ah, death we...

托马斯·哈代（Thomas Hardy），英国诗人、小说家。他是横跨两个世纪的作家，早期和中期的创作以小说为主，继承和发扬了维多利亚时代的文学传统；晚年以其出色的诗歌开拓了英国20世纪的文...