經(jīng)典詩歌：舞臺之愛

　　阿爾杰農(nóng)·查爾斯·斯溫伯恩

　　帷幕拉開,他們登臺演戲兩人聯(lián)袂,

　　男演國王女演王后最為般配;

　　淚水化作笑聲,笑聲卻柔如淚水,

　　這本是她多年的夢想,不料會充滿傷悲。

　　歡樂中唇焦舌燥,痛苦里夜不能寐，

　　長久的歡樂有刺痛伴隨;

　　當她與半真的情人表演半假的愛情,

　　她對此一無所知毫無體會。

　　盡管腳本最后要他們又哭又笑,

　　讓他今天織網(wǎng)明天又去扯碎,

　　傷害他,作弄他,叫他去死,

　　他在劇中真的死去,落幕后他滿臉熱淚。

　　時光易逝時光無限誰能品出真味?

　　愛情怎樣滋長、歡笑、痛哭又消退?

　　這一切她開始懂得,開始用心思量,

　　當取悅一位男士的演出到此收尾。

　　Stage Love

　　Algernon Charles Swinburne

　　When the game began between them for a jest,

　　He played king and she played queen to match the best;

　　Laughter soft as tears, and tears that turned to laughter,

　　These were things she sought for years and sorrowed after.

　　Pleasure with dry lips, and pain that walks by night;

　　All the sting and all the stain of long delight;

　　These were things she knew not of, that knew not of her,

　　When she played at half a love with half a lover.

　　Time was chorus, gave them cues to laugh or cry;

　　They would kill, befool, amuse him, let him die;

　　Set him webs to weave to-day and break to-morrow,

　　Till he died for good in play, and rose in sorrow.

　　What the years mean; how time dies and is not slain;

　　How love grows and laughs and cries and wanes again;

　　These were things she came to know, and take their measure,

　　When the play was played out so for one man’s pleasure.