I've lived beneath huge portals where marine

我曾久宅于巍巍广厦，

Suns coloured, with a myriad fires, the waves;

披浴于海上阳光的火红，

At eve majestic pillars made the scene

晚来，它们高挺的石柱

Resemble those of vast basaltic caves.

使人恍如置身玄武岩洞。

The breakers, rolling the reflected skies,

海浪摇拨着蓝天的倒影，

Mixed, in a solemn, enigmatic way,

庄严地，也略带秘诡，

The powerful symphonies they seem to play

把宅于如乐的丰盈的至高谐音

With colours of the sunset in my eyes.

揉进映满我眼帘的夕晖。

There did I live in a voluptuous calm

我宅于斯，沉浸于欢忭无边，

Where breezes, waves, and splendours roved as vagrants;

寄身于华彩，轻浪和蓝天，

And naked slaves, impregnated with fragrance,

而遍体浸抹香油的裸奴

Would fan my forehead with their fronds of palm:

拂我之额以棕榈叶的清凉，

Their only charge was to increase the anguish

他们唯一操心的是加强

Of secret grief in which I loved to languish.

那折磨我的神秘的忧郁。