| No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately. | |
| I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness, | |
| For my surrounding air hath a new lightness; | |
| Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly | |
| And left me cloaked as with a gauze of other; | 5 (4-5) |
| As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness. | |
| Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness | |
| To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her. | (7-8) |
| No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour, | |
| Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers. | 10 (9-10) |
| Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches, | |
| As winter's wound with her sleight hand she staunches, | |
| Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour: | (11-13) |
| As white their bark, so white this lady's hours. |
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| 這首詩的詩題含有雙重的意義。Virginal一方面指一種方形的古鋼琴，用以伴奏本詩以便歌唱，另一方面又可能指本詩所歌頌的女子具有「適於處女的特質」(virginal quality)。[back] | |
| 本詩為戲劇性獨白(dramatic monologue)。詩中說話者稱頌他剛剛離開的帶有光亮(light)和特殊氣味(flavour)的女子。本詩一開始，說話者即斥逐現在要接近他的那位沒有靈氣的女子。[back] | |
| My sheath：sheath原意為鞘。本行指他身上還籠罩著剛離開的女子的光。他不願讓比較不明亮的東西（指現在身邊的女子）破壞那光芒。[back] | |
| 因為我週圍的空氣有一股清新的明亮（和輕快）。Lightness一面指 「明亮」，但也含有「輕快」之意。[back] | |
| 她手臂細弱，但卻緊緊的縛住我，並使我像遮蓋一層以太似的薄霧。gauze: 薄霧；薄紗。aether＝ether, 以太。[back] | |
| 這一行在文法上與上行的as with平行。Subtle clearness:幽幽的澄澈。clearness含有靈魂的澄澈之意。[back] | |
| 指所歌頌者在身邊時所發出的魔力涵蓋她也涵蓋我。sheathe：envelope, 指像鞘一樣的套著。The things 指 the light. [back] | |
| 說話者要身邊的女子走開，因為他還有（剛離開的女子所留下的）那種氣味，柔軟得如從樺樹樹蔭處吹來的春風。birchen：of birch, 樺樹的。bowers：樹蔭處。[back] | |
| 這三行所用的意象承繼上面樺樹的臂喻。如在四月中，她用熟練的手來止住冬天的傷口而使嫩枝轉綠，她有像樺樹一般的味道。[back] | |
| her sleight hand：她有技巧的手。sleight通常當名詞用，用於sleight of hand這一片語中，指用手熟練而有技巧。staunches：止血。[back] | |
| Hath的主詞為she。[back] | |
| 與這位所歌頌的女士在一起的時刻之白就如樺樹皮那麼白。[back] |