在《新月集》中,詩人書寫了孩子純凈的心靈。孩子們喜歡玩簡單的小游戲,且樂此不疲。“他們用沙子建造房屋,他們用空貝殼游戲。”“孩子,你多么快樂,整個早晨坐在塵土里,玩著一根折斷的小樹枝。”孩子們有著奇妙的想象,“如果我鬧著玩兒,變成一朵金香木花,長在那樹的高枝上,在風(fēng)中笑得搖搖擺擺,在新生嫩葉上跳舞,媽媽,你認得出是我嗎?”此外,《新月集》也描寫了孩子和母親的感情。“他知道慈母心中小小一角就可以容納無窮的歡樂,被母親逮住了緊抱在她慈愛的雙臂里,遠比自由甜蜜。”在詩人的筆下,詩中的母親帶有一種圣潔的光輝。
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O YOU shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond, have you forgotten the little child, like the birds that have nested in your branches and left you?
喂,你站在池邊的蓬頭的榕樹,你可會忘記了那小小的孩子,就像那在你的枝上筑巢又離開了你的鳥兒似的孩子?
Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at the tangle of your roots that plunged underground?
你不記得是他怎樣坐在窗內(nèi),詫異地望著你深入地下的糾纏的樹根么?
The women would come to fill their jars in the pond, and your huge black shadow would wriggle on the water like sleep struggling to wake up.
婦人們常到池邊,汲了滿罐的水去,你的大黑影便在水面上搖動,好像睡著的人掙扎著要醒來似的。
Sunlight danced on the ripples like restless tiny shuttles weaving golden tapestry.
日光在微波上跳舞,好像不停不息的小梭在織著金色的花氈。
Two ducks swam by the weedy margin above their shadows, and the child would sit still and think.
兩只鴨子挨著蘆葦,在蘆葦影子上游來游去,孩子靜靜地坐在那里想著。
He longed to be the wind and blow through your rustling branches, to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water, to be a bird and perch on your top-most twig, and to float like those ducks among the weeds and shadows.
他想做風(fēng),吹過你的蕭蕭的枝杈;想做你的影子,在水面上,隨了日光而俱長;想做一只鳥兒,棲息在你的最高枝上;還想做那兩只鴨,在蘆葦與陰影中間游來游去。