1. Emerson
Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
curlCommands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
hjhOur fatal shadows that walk by us still."
Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himlf for better, for wor, as his portion; that though the wide univer is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come
to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourlves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us reprents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwi, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius derts him; no mu befriends; no invention, no hope.
Trust thylf: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themlves childlike to the genius
of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was ated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
2. A Psalm of Life
Herry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
请别用哀伤的诗句对我讲；
Life is but an empty dream!
人生呵，无非是虚梦一场！
For the soul is dead that slumbers
因为沉睡的灵魂如死一般，geodesic
And things are not what they em.
事物的表里并不一样。
Life is real! Life is earnest!
人生是实在的！人生是热烈的！
And the grave is not its goal;
人生的目标决不是坟墓；
Dust thou art , to dust returnest,
你是尘土，应归于尘土。
Was not spoken of the soul.
此话指的并不是我们的精神。
Not enjoyment , and not sorrow,
我们的归宿并不是快乐，
Is our destined and our way;
新东方英语四级
也不是悲伤，
But to act, 实干
That much to-morrow.
才是我们的道路，
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每天不断前进，蒸蒸蒸日上。
Art is long , and time is fleeting.
光阴易逝，而艺海无涯，
And our hearts , though stout and brave.
我们的心哪——虽然勇敢坚强，
Still , like muffled drums , are beating
却像被布蒙住的铜鼓，
Funeral marches to the grave。
常把殡葬的哀乐擂响。
In the world’s broad field of battle,
在这人生的宿营地，
In the bivouac of Life,
在这辽阔的世界战场，
Be not like dumb,driven cattle!
别做无言的牲畜任人驱赶，
Be a hero in the strife!
做一名英雄汉立马横枪！
Trust no future.howe’er pleasant!
别相信未来，哪怕未来多么欢乐！
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
让死去的往昔将死亡一切埋葬！
Act,act in the living Prent!
上帝在上，我们胸怀勇气，
Let us,then,be up and doing,reform
让我们起来干吧，
With a heart for any fate;
下定决心，不管遭遇怎样；
Still achieving,still pursuing
不断胜利，不断追求，
Learn to labour and to wait.
要学会苦干和耐心等待。
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3. Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
初一英语试题Who woods the are I think I know.
His hou is in the village though;
He will not e me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little hor must think it queer
To stop without a farmhou near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promis to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
As a traveler, the author stands between the woods and people facing the great attraction from the two worlds. On one hand, he is tempted strongly by the mystery of the woods, on the other hand, he also hope that he can reject this kind of ductive temptation and go back to the reality so that he could be able to carry out hi promi. Here the theme may be the necessity to face the responsibilities and duties inherent in adult instead of escaping the pressure and sadness of the circumstance and the weight of responsibilities.
4. Emily Dickinson
I Never Saw a Moor
I never saw a Moor---
I never saw the Sea____
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.
I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heavens___
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given____
Checks: the word refers to the colored chart which the train attendant gives to pasngers after collecting their tickets.
5. Ezra Pound
jword是谁Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century, he opened a s
eminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers, and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such major contemporaries as W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and especially T. S. Eliot. His own significant contributions to poetry begin with his promulgation of Imagism, a movement in poetry which derived its technique from classical Chine and Japane poetry - stressing clarity, precision, and economy of language, and foregoing traditional rhyme and meter in order to, in Pound's words, "compo in the quence of the musical phra, not in the quence of the metronome." His later work, for nearly fifty years, focud on the encyclopedic epic poem he entitled The Cantos.
