《多佛海滩》一诗原文如下
Dover Beach－Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; -on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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多佛海滩
马修·阿诺德（1822-1888）
王道余 译
今夜海面平静。
潮水涨满，明月高悬
海峡之上；对面法国海岸
灯光明灭；英格兰绝壁耸立；
远处的宁静海湾，闪烁、无边。
快来窗边，夜晚空气如蜜甜！
唯一的是，从那长长的海浪线，
从那大海和月光漂洗的土地交会之地，
听啊！你听得见那嘎吱嘎吱的呐喊
那是海浪带着卵石退去，又抛起，
再次回来时，将其送上高地，
一来，一去，周而复始，
有张有驰，不慌不急，带来了
忧愁的永恒调子。
远古的索福克勒斯
曾在爱琴海将它听见，带给
他脑子的是人类不幸之污浊的
落落起起；我们
在这声音里也找到一个思想，
当在这遥远的北海岸边将它听见。
信仰之海
也曾一度涨满，围绕地球的海岸
如同一卷明丽的腰带伸展。
但如今我只能听见
它忧郁、绵长、退却的呐喊，
在后撤，和着夜风的
呼吸，撤下这个世界硕大阴沉的边缘
和赤裸的碎石滩。
啊，爱人，让我们彼此
忠诚坚贞！因为这个世界，它
像梦幻之地在我们面前摊开，
如此多样，如此美丽，如此崭新，
其实没有欢乐，没有爱情，也没有光明，
没有确定，没有平和，痛苦也没有助援；
而我们在此也如同身处暗夜的平原，
响遍了抗争斗杀的阵阵杂乱警鸣，
有如无知的队伍趁夜交兵。
兰迪·马特森