Adonais
XXI
Alas! that all we lov'd of him should be,
But for our grief, as if it had not been,
And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me!
Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene
The actors or spectators? Great and mean
Meet mass'd in death, who lends what life must borrow.
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.
XXXIV
All stood aloof, and at his partial moan
Smil'd through their tears; well knew that gentle band
Who in another's fate now wept his own,
As in the accents of an unknown land
He sung new sorrow; sad Urania scann'd
The Stranger's mien, and murmur'd: "Who art thou?"
He answer'd not, but with a sudden hand
Made bare his branded and ensanguin'd brow,
Which was like Cain's or Christ's—oh! that it should be so!
XXXIX
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awaken'd from the dream of life;
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
XLI
He lives, he wakes—'tis Death is dead, not he;
Mourn not for Adonais. Thou young Dawn,
Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee
The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!
Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air,
Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown
O'er the abandon'd Earth, now leave it bare
Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair!
LIII
Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart?
Thy hopes are gone before: from all things here
They have departed; thou shouldst now depart!
A light is pass'd from the revolving year,
And man, and woman; and what still is dear
Attracts to crush, repels to make thee wither.
The soft sky smiles, the low wind whispers near:
'Tis Adonais calls! oh, hasten thither,
No more let Life divide what Death can join together.
LV
The breath whose might I have invok'd in song
Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven,
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng
Whose sails were never to the tempest given;
The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven,
The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
An Example of Another Elegy
오든(W. H. Auden), “장례식 블루스”
Funeral Blues
장례식 블루스
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with the juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and, with muffled drum,
Bring out the coffin. Let the mourners come.
시계를 모두 멈춰라. 전화선도 끊어 버려라.
육즙이 가득한 뼈를 물고 있는 저 강아지도 못 짖게 하라.
피아노 소리도 죽이고, 숨죽인 북소리와 함께
관을 내오라. 조문객을 들이라.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message: “He is dead!”
Put crepe bows around the white necks of the public doves.
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
비행기가 흐느끼며 상공을 맴돌게 하라
그러면서 하늘에 이렇게 쓰게 하라. “그가 죽었다!”
공원에 있는 비둘기의 하얀 목덜미에도 상장(喪章)을 매라.
거리의 교통순경들도 검은 색 목장갑을 끼라고 해라.
He was my north, my south, my east and west,
My working week and Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song.
I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.
그는 나의 북쪽과 남쪽, 나의 동쪽과 서쪽이었다.
나의 일하는 평일의 나날이었고, 일요일의 안식이었다.
나의 정오였고, 나의 자정이었고, 나의 이야기, 나의 노래였다.
나는 사랑이 영원할 줄 알았다. 내가 틀렸다.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one.
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can come to any good.
별도 이젠 다 필요없다. 별빛 따윈 다 꺼버려라.
달도 가리고, 해도 치워라.
바닷물도 다 따라 버리고, 숲도 모두 밀어버려라.
이젠 아무 것도 아무 소용이 없으니까.
A Romantic Elegy: An Elegy on himself
Requiem in Amadeus