我站在楼梯上

 皮埃尔·龙萨

 英译 亨伯特·沃尔夫

 不久前我站在楼梯上胡思乱想，
 你从身边走过，看着我的面庞。
 你那突如其来的优雅，
 让我的两眼顿时一片迷茫。
 犹如闪电劈开云团，
 无与伦比的美丽击碎了我的心脏；
 一阵像冰，一阵似火，
 胸中的血液奔腾激荡。
 那一晃而过的手白如天鹅，
 向我示意，引我躲过死亡；
 海伦啊，你的眼睛有如刀剑，
 否则我将难逃那犀利的锋芒。
 顷刻之间你让你的俘虏恢复了气息，
 你的眼里闪耀胜利的辉光。

On a Stair I Stood

Pierre de Ronsard

(English version by Humbert Wolfe)

Lately as dreaming on a stair I stood
you passed me by, and, by looking on my face,
blinded my eyes with the immediate grace
of unanticpated neighboourhood.
As lightning splits the clouds, my heart and blood
split with your beatuty, and began to race,
now ice, now fever, shattered in their place
by that unparelleled beatitutde.
And if you hand in passing had not beckoned--
your whiter hand than is the swan's white daughter,
Helen, your eyes had wounded me to death.
But your hand saved me in the mortal second,
and your triumphant eyes the moment after
revived their captive with an alms of breath