我从不曾拿我的卷发送给谁，
I never gave a lock of hair away
除非是这一束，我最亲爱的，给你；
To a man, Dearest, except this to thee,
满怀心事，我把它抽开在指尖，
Which now upon my fingers thoughtfully
拉成棕黄色的一长段；我说：“爱，
I ring out to the full brown length and say
收下吧。”我的青春已一去不回，
`Take it.' My day of www.haiyawenxue.com youth went yesterday;
这一头散发再也不跟着我脚步一起
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
雀跃，也不再象姑娘们，在鬓发间
Nor plant I it from rose- or Myrtle-tree,
插满玫瑰和桃金娘，却让它披垂，
As girls do, any more. It only may
从一个老是歪着的头儿－－由于
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears
忧郁的癖性－－披下来遮掩着泪痕。
Taught drooping from the head that hangs aside
原以为理尸的剪刀会先把它收去，
Through sorrow's trick. I thought the funeral-shears
可不想爱情的名份得到了确认。
Would take this first, but Love is justified, --
收下吧，那上面有慈母在弥留时给儿女
Take it thou, ... finding pure, from all those years,
印下的一吻－－这些年始终保持着洁净。
The kiss my mother left here when she died.