幽谷，但我不怕罹祸，因为你与我同在”。——译者注

To My Mother

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,

The angels, whispering to one another,

Can find, among their burning terms of love,

None so devotional as that of "Mother,"

Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—

You who are more than mother unto me,

And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you

In setting my Virginia's spirit free.

My mother—my own mother, who died early,

Was but the mother of myself; but you

Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,

And thus are dearer than the mother I knew

By that infinity with which my wife

Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.

(1849)

致我的母亲

因为我感到，即使在天国乐土，

那些正在相互窃窃私语的天使

也找不出，从炽热的爱的称呼，

能像母亲这般虔敬的称谓名词，

所以长久以来我用这称谓叫你——

你对于我早已远远超越了母亲，

你充满我的心，自从死神让你

替代我的弗吉尼亚获释的灵魂。

我的母亲——我自己早亡的生母，

不过仅仅是我的母亲；但是你

却是我最心爱的那个人的生母，

所以比我所知的母亲更为亲密，

因为这无限的亲密，我的爱妻

于我的灵魂比灵魂本身更可贵。

（1849）

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;—

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

She was a child and I was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingéd seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud by night,

Chilling my Annabel Lee;

So that her high-born kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre,

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

Went envying her and me;

Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling

And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we—

Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: