英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

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英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

　　Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
" _5 Y  ~, F' j& _' j% u; H　　London has swept about you this score years
　　And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
  I% @/ r0 _7 Z7 r% ^　　Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
7 I: G# E! s$ a　　Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
　　Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else.
9 ~7 r: t% q" }& s　　You have been second always. Tragical?
! p/ k7 o- D- g　　No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
( {8 N0 M, ~. a- p1 |* ~% c. m　　One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
' t8 k  J: r- t2 }9 v8 o　　One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
　　Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
* o* @+ {( P2 n　　Hours, where something might have floated up.
　　And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
　　You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
　　And takes strange gain away:
" C# J4 Q5 r: b　　Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
　　Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
　　Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
　　That might prove useful and yet never proves,
　　That never fits a corner or shows use,
5 j4 d. V8 H9 W  p8 d& \, G; S　　Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
+ ^0 J5 b/ ?* ~% Q# |. q) Y　　The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
* q- J9 {( Q0 t1 t8 i0 K　　Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
  g7 M( @7 F* a& R　　These are your riches, your great store; and yet
　　For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
5 ^( ^7 n8 O" W! H) e　　Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
　　In the slow float of differing light and deep,
( {1 L4 i/ Z0 h/ S1 |9 J0 I　　No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
0 a; t- i: ]3 V- m: `( w0 S2 I　　Nothing that's quite your own.
) m4 ^) \- @5 v: u　　Yet this is you.
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