W.H.Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well 仰望群星的时分，我一清二楚， That, for all they care, I can go to hell 尽管它们关怀备至，我亦有可能赴地府， But on earth indifference is the least 可是尘世间我们...
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! for the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, dont...
Lemon Danielle Cadena Deulen They loved each other, but a lemon tree grew between themno solace（安慰，慰藉） in the way it leaned, as if to whisper from her yard into his, across the coyote（北美小狼） fence, a promise of something grea...
In Every Life Alicia Ostriker In every life theres a moment or two when the self disappears, the cruel wound takes over, and then again at times we are filled with sky or with birds or simply with the sugary tea on the table said the old woman I know...
I held back so much afraid to show my deepest feelings your gentleness and honesty encouraged me to open up and I started a trust in you that I never had with anyone else Once I started to express my feelings I realized that this is the only way to h...
Be Here First Ellen Dor Watson I don't know my trees but I know my trees. Their angling for（谋取） what has spurned（唾弃，冷落） them; their spitting and drooling（流口水） , the battered（破旧的，磨损的） crocuses（番红花...
Bellaghy Winner of the 2009-2010 AWP Intro Journals Project, selected by Lynn Powell Stepping off the bus from Magherafelt, I feel my ass pinched（压紧，痛苦） by a boy not yet out of junior school and, deposited all alone, am greeted by a qua...
The Bight 海湾 by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and glare and the boats are dry, the pilings dry as matches, Absorbing, rather than being absorbed, the water in the...
Little League Coaching Pitchers When my only pitcher（投手，大水罐） went wild against the league's worst team, I knew we had a cushion, hell, ten runs at least. Time for a life-lesson. Like Zeus I towered over him on the mound and poured the...
