一

I

雾气洋溢、果实圆熟的秋，

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

你和成熟的太阳成为友伴；

   Close bosom friend of the maturing sun,

你们密谋用累累的珠球

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

缀满茅屋檐下的葡萄藤蔓；

   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run:

使屋前的老树背负着苹果，

To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,

让熟味透进果实的心中，

   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

　　使葫芦胀大，鼓起了榛子壳，

 To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

好塞进甜核；又为了蜜蜂

   With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

一次一次开放过迟的花朵，

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

使它们以为日子将永远暖和，

Until they think warm days will never cease,

　　因为夏季早填满它们的黏巢。

 For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.

二

II

谁不经常看见你伴着谷仓？

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

在田野里也可以把你找到，

   Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

你有时随意坐在打麦场上，

Thee sitting careless on a granary-floor,

让发丝随着簸谷的风轻飘；

   Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

有时候，为罂粟花香所沉迷，

Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,

你倒卧在收割一半的田垄，

   Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

　　让镰刀歇在下一畦的花旁；

 Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;

或者，像拾穗人越过小溪，

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

你昂首背着谷袋，投下倒影，

   Steady thy laden head across a brook;

或者就在榨果架下坐几点钟，

   Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,

　　你耐心瞧着徐徐滴下的酒浆。

 Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

三

III

Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they?

啊，春日的歌哪里去了？但不要

   Think not of them, thou hast thy music too—

想这些吧，你也有你的音乐——

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

当波状的云把将逝的一天映照，

   And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

以胭红抹上残梗散碎的田野，

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

这时啊，河柳下的一群小飞虫

   Among the river sallows, borne aloft

就同奏哀音，它们忽而飞高，

 Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

　　忽而下落，随着微风的起灭；

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

篱下的蟋蟀在歌唱；在园中

   Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

红胸的知更鸟就群起呼哨；

   The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

而群羊在山圈里高声咩叫；

 And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

丛飞的燕子在天空呢喃不歇。