《叶慈诗选》是“一位把诗歌当做生命的诗人”与“20世纪最伟大的英语诗人”的美好相遇。本书是诗人杨牧特别为儿子翻译的温情之作。叶慈（叶芝），爱尔兰有史以来至为的诗人，也是近世极受重视、极受喜爱的诗人之一。他精美深刻的诗篇，始终萦绕着沉重的爱尔兰，萦绕着爱尔兰的神话传说和海滩乡野。本书由台湾诗人——杨牧，着力精译叶慈一生重要诗作近八十首，附以原文汉英对照，另有导言、注释等，以完整的体例呈现，名家编译，确非凡响。

导言

牧神的祭师∕The Priest of Pan

在香谷阡陌∕’Mong Meadows of Sweet Grain

露水点点滴落∕The Dew Comes Dropping

每当身在荒漠∕Wherever in the Wastes

那印度人致所爱∕The Indian to His Love

叶落∕The Falling of the Leaves

蜉蝣∕Ephemera

湖岛因尼斯夫莉∕The Lake Isle of Innisfree

当你老了∕When You Are Old

白鸟∕The White Birds

赠与我倾谈向火的人∕To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire

让爱平静将息∕He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace

黑豕谷∕The Valley of the Black Pig

论完美∕He Tells of the Perfect Beauty

七重林中∕In the Seven Woods

树枯枝萎∕The Withering of the Boughs

亚当其惩∕Adam’s Curse

老人对水自怜∕The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

特洛不再∕No Second Troy

睿智随时间∕The Coming of Wisdom with Time

什么事都教我分心∕All Things Can Tempt Me

一九一三年九月∕September

失落的尊荣∕Fallen Majesty

寒天∕The Cold Heaven

东方三贤士∕The Magi

阔园野天鹅∕The Wild Swans at Coole

一个爱尔兰飞行员预见死亡∕An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

所罗门与希芭∕Solomon to Sheba

学者∕The Scholars

忧郁作∕Lines Written in Dejection

黎明∕The Dawn

钓者∕The Fisherman

有人要我写一首有关战争的诗∕On Being Asked for a War Poem

余尔等主∕Ego Dominus Tuus

麦柯·罗拔兹与舞者∕Michael Robartes and the Dancer

一来自前生的形象∕An Image from a Past Life

复活节·一九一六∕Easter,

一名政治犯∕On a Political Prisoner

群众领袖∕The Leaders of the Crowd

二度降临∕The Second Coming

战时冥想∕A Meditation in Time of War

航向拜占庭∕Sailing to Byzantium

吾宅∕My House

窗子边上的燕巢∕The Stare’s Nest by My Window

西元一千九百十九年∕Nieen Hundred and Nieen

丽妲与天鹅∕Leda and the Swan

爱德芒·杜剌可画黑色人头马∕On a Picture of a Black Centaur by EdmundDulac

在学童当中∕Among School Children

人性尊严∕Human Dignity

离群∕His Wildness

自我与灵魂的对话∕A Dialogue of Self and Soul

象征∕Symbols

十九世纪以降∕The Nieenth Century and After

三世运∕Three Movements

疯月∕The Crazed Moon

阔园与灞列力塔·一九三一∕Coole and Ballylee,

拜占庭∕Byzantium

感念无名教师∕Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors

催眠曲∕Lullaby

长久沉默之后∕After Long Silence

她的优势∕Her Triumph

选定∕Chosen

她神觉之象在林中∕Her Vision in the Wood

乌何由来哉？∕Whence Had They Come?

灭忽∕Meru

青金石雕∕Lapis Lazuli

致桃乐西·卫俄斯里∕To Dorothy Wellesley

刺激∕The Spur

朝圣者∕The Pilgrim

雕像∕The Statues

消息为德尔菲预言而作∕News for the Delphic Oracle

长脚蚊∕Long-legged Fly

一炷香∕A Stick of Incense

高谈∕High Talk

人及其回声∕Man and the Echo

政治∕Politics

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