I will deck thee with trophies, garlands of my defeat. 我要以胜利品，我的失败的花环，来装饰你。 It is never in my power to escape unconquered. 逃避不受征服，是我永远做不到的。 I surely know my pride will go to the wall, my life will bur
I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers! 我已经请了假。弟兄们，祝我一路平安罢！ I bow to you all and take my departure. 我向你们大家鞠了躬就启程了。 Here I give back the keys of my door---and I give up all claims to my hous
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. 就是这股生命的泉水，日夜流穿我的血管，也流穿过世界，又应节地跳舞。 It is the same life that shoots in joy throug
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord. 你手里的光阴是无限的，我的主。 There is none to count thy minutes. 你的分秒是无法计算的。 Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers. 夜去明来，时代像花开花落。 Thou knowest how to wait
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not. 在无望的希望中，我在房里的每一个角落找她；我找不到她。 My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. 我的房子很小，一旦丢了
Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs and yet run back to thee undiminished. 你赐给我们世人的礼物，满足了我们一切的需要，可是它们又毫未减少地返回到你那里。 The river has its everyday work to do and hastens through fields and hamlets
In one salutation to thee, my God, let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet. 在我向你合十膜拜之中，我的上帝，让我一切的感知都舒展在你的脚下，接触这个世界。 Like a rain-cloud of July hung low with its burden of unshed s
That I should make much of myself and turn it on all sides, thus casting coloured shadows on thy radiance---such is thy maya. 我应当自己发扬光大、四周放射、投映彩影于你的光辉之中－－这便是你的幻境。 Thou settest a barrier in thine own b
I know thee as my God and stand apart---I do not know thee as my own and come closer. 我知道你是我的上帝，却远立在一边－－我不知道你是属于我的，就走近你。 I know thee as my father and bow before thy feet---I do not grasp thy hand as m
Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck with my tears of sorrow. 圣母呵，我要把我悲哀的眼泪穿成珠链，挂在你的颈上。 The stars have wrought their anklets of light to deck thy feet, but mine will hang upon thy brea
I dive down into the depth of the ocean of forms, hoping to gain the perfect pearl of the formless. 我跳进形象海洋的深处，希望能得到那无形象的完美的珍珠。 No more sailing from harbour to harbour with this my weather-beaten boat
Ever in my life have I sought thee with my songs. 我这一生永远以诗歌来寻求你。 It was they who led me from door to door, and with them have I felt about me, searching and touching my world. 它们领我从这门走到那门，我和它们一同摸索，寻求着
I was not aware of the moment when I first crossed the threshold of this life. 当我刚跨过此生的门槛的时候，我并没有发觉。 What was the power that made me open out into this vast mystery like a bud in the forest at midnigh
Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home. 死亡，你的仆人，来到我的门前。他渡过不可知的海洋临到我家，来传达你的召令。 The night is dark and my heart is fearful---yet I will take up
I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes. 我知道这日子将要来到，当我眼中的人世渐渐消失，生命默默地向我道别，把最后的帘幕拉过我的眼前。
Deity of the ruined temple! The broken strings of Vina sing no more your praise. 破庙里的神呵！七弦琴的断线不再弹唱赞美你的诗歌。 The bells in the evening proclaim not your time of worship. 晚钟也不再宣告礼拜你的时间。 The air is still an
I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn uselessly roaming in the sky, O my sun ever-glorious! 我像一片秋天的残云，无主地在空中飘荡，呵，我的永远光耀的太阳！ Thy touch has not yet melted my vapour, making me one with thy light, and
Thy sunbeam comes upon this earth of mine with arms outstretched and stands at my door the livelong day to carry back to thy feet clouds made of my tears and sighs and songs. 你的阳光射到我的地上，整天地伸臂站在我门前，把我的
O thou the last fulfilment of life, Death, my death, come and whisper to me! 呵，你这生命最后的完成，死亡，我的死亡，来对我低语罢！ Day after day I have kept watch for thee; for thee have I borne the joys and pangs of life. 我天天
I boasted among men that I had known you. 我在人前夸说我认得你。 They see your pictures in all works of mine. 在我的作品中，他们看到了你的画像， They come and ask me, `Who is he?' I know not how to answer them. 他们走来问：“他 是谁？”我不知道
