风华绝代最少年，青春热血暖心间 ——罗伯特·赫立克名诗翻译

原文：

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

BY ROBERT HERRICK

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles today

Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,

The higher he’s a-getting,

The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he’s to setting.

That age is best which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worstTimes still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,

And while ye may, go marry;

For having lost but once your prime,You may forever tarry.

文华馆馆主自译：

致妙龄少女：尽享芳华

玫瑰初绽直须摘，亘古时光似飞电。

此花陶陶今日笑，明朝残红芳魂销。

苍穹耀日光璀璨，直上九天益登攀。

疾疾途程奔愈近，寂寂此生无多春。

风华绝代最少年，青春热血暖心间。

岁月闲抛颓欲至，明日尤悲甚今日。

尽享芳华勿矜羞，良缘还须趁佳偶。

华年仅此若枉失，汝生永误空悔迟！

附注:

此诗同中国诗《金缕衣》“花开堪折直须折 ，莫待无花空折枝”有异曲同工之妙，此诗展开写，演绎深详。作者罗伯特·赫立克是英国十七世纪诗人，一生追慕大诗人本·琼森（Ben Johnson)，此诗为其名作。原诗押abab隔句韵，韵脚随段流转，译时因选字的原因我擅改为对句韵，念起来韵律感更強一点，故略有出入。