If you were coming in the Fall

by Emily Dickinson

如果你在秋季到來 ?

If you were coming in the Fall,

I'd brush the summer by

With half a smile,and half a spurn,

As housewives do,a fly.

如果你能在秋季來到

我會把夏天驅(qū)趕

一半輕蔑 一半訕笑

就像主婦把蒼蠅趕跑

If I could see you in a year,

I'd wind the months in a ball-

And put them each in a separate Drawers,

For fear the numbers fuse-

如果能在一年內(nèi)見你

我會把每月都挽成球

單獨放進一個個抽屜

以防弄錯月份的數(shù)字

If only centuries, delayed,

I'd count them on my Hand,

Subtracting,till my fingers dropped

Into Van Dieman's land

若只耽誤幾個世紀

我會用我的手來算計

掰著手指數(shù)數(shù)，直到它們?nèi)嫉瓜?/p>

墜入死亡的領地

If certain,when this life was out-

That yours and mine,should be

I'd toss it yonder,like a Rind,

And take Eternity-

如果，當真，

當你我的生命，必然，終此一生

我會像丟棄一塊果皮一樣

拋棄我的生命，而至永恒

But,now,uncertain of the length

Of this,that is between,

It goads me,like the Goblin Bee-

That will not state-its sting.

但是，現(xiàn)在，我不能把穩(wěn)

這其間相隔還有多長

它刺痛我，就像一只妖怪的蜂

無以言喻，那毒刺的狠