[1]
What is pink? A rose is pink 什麼是粉紅色？
By the fountain's brink. 噴泉邊的玫瑰就是粉紅色。
[2]
What is red? A poppy's red 什麼是艷紅色？
In its barley bed. 在大麥床裏的罌粟花就是艷紅色。
[3]
What is blue? The sky is blue 什麼是蔚藍色？天空就是蔚藍色，
Where the clouds float thro'. 雲朵飄過其間。
[4]
What is white? A swan is white 什麼是白色？
Sailing in the light. 陽光下嬉水的天鵝就是白色。
[5]
What is yellow? Pears are yellow, 什麼是黃色？梨兒就是黃色，
Rich and ripe and mellow. 熟透且多汁。
[6]
What is green? The grass is green, 什麼是綠色？草就是綠色，
With small flowers between. 小花摻雜其間。
[7]
What is violet? Clouds are violet 什麼是紫色？夏日夕陽裏的
In the summer twilight. 彩霞就是紫色。
[8]
What is orange? Why, an orange, 什麼是橘色？當然啦！
Just an orange! 橘子就是橘色。
---------- by C. G. Rossetti
39.Home, Sweet Home甜蜜的家庭
(1)
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 雖然我們也會沈迷於歡樂與奢靡中，
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home! 無論家是多麼簡陋，沒有地方比得上它！
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, 好似從空而降的魔力，使我們在家覺得聖潔
Which seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere, 就是找遍全世界，也找不到像這樣的地方，
Home! Home! Sweet, sweet Home! 家啊！家啊！甜蜜的家啊！
There's no place like Home! There's no place like Home! 沒有地方比得上家！沒有地方比得上家！
(2)
I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild, 每當我漫步荒野凝視明月，
And feel that my mother now thinks of her child, 便想起母親正惦念著她的孩子，
As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door, 當她從茅舍門口遙望明月時，
Through the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. 穿過冬忍樹叢，濃郁樹香再也不能安慰我的心靈。
Home! Home! Sweet, sweet Home!家啊！家啊！甜蜜的家啊！
There's no place like Home! There's no place like Home!沒有地方比得上家！沒有地方比得上家！
(3)
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; 對壹個離鄉背井的遊子，再華麗的光輝，也是徒然閃爍；
Oh, give me my lowly thatch'd cottage again! 壹棟矮檐茅舍！
The birds singing gaily, that came at my call--- 壹呼即來的鳥兒正在歡唱
Give me them, -- and the peace of mind, dearer than all! 賜給它們－還有心靈的平靜，這些勝過壹切！
Home! Home! Sweet, sweet Home!家啊！家啊！甜蜜的家啊！
There's no place like Home! There's no place like Home!沒有地方比得上家！沒有地方比得上家！
~~~by John H. Payne, 1791-1852