Hope 希望

　　Emily Bronte艾米莉 勃朗特

　　Hope was but a timid friend,希望只是個羞怯的友伴。

　　She sat without the grated den,她坐在我的囚牢之外，

　　Watching how my fate would tend,以自私者的冷眼旁觀

　　Even as selfish-hearted men.觀察我的命運(yùn)的好歹。

　　She was cruel in her fear,她因膽怯而如此冷酷。

　　Through the bars one weary day,郁悶的一天，我透過鐵欄，

　　I looked out to see her there,想看到我的希望的面目，

　　And she turned her face away!卻見她立即背轉(zhuǎn)了臉!

　　Like a false guard, false watch keeping,像一個假看守在假意監(jiān)視，

　　Still in strife, she whispered peace;一面敵對一面又暗示和平;

　　She would sing while I was weeping,當(dāng)我哀泣時她吟唱歌詞，

　　If I listened, she would cease.當(dāng)我靜聽她卻噤口無聲。

　　False she was, and unrelenting; 她心如鐵石而且虛假。

　　When my last joys strewed the ground,當(dāng)我最后的歡樂落滿地，

　　Even Sorrow saw, repenting,見此悲慘的遺物四處拋撒，

　　Those sad relics scattered round;就連“哀愁”也遺憾不已

　　Those days. Those people, Those poems,而希望，她本來能悄悄耳語

　　Balm to all my frenzied pain,為痛苦欲狂者搽膏止痛，

　　Stretched her wings,and soared to heaven,卻伸展雙翼向天堂飛去，

　　Went, and ne'er eturned again!一去不回，從此不見影蹤。