Her Praise - W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The Wild Swans at Coole. 1919.

這是最近在看的影集,"House"裡面第一季第五集裡面出現的詩,感覺還不錯
最喜歡後面的 for in the old days, Though she had young men’s praise and old men’s blame,
Among the poor both old and young gave her praise.
因為在往昔,儘管她擁有年輕人的讚美跟老人的譴責,但在窮人之間,老年人跟年輕人都把她讚美.

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The Wild Swans at Coole. 1919.

21. Her Praise

SHE is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
I have gone about the house, gone up and down
As a man does who has published a new book
Or a young girl dressed out in her new gown,
And though I have turned the talk by hook or crook 5
Until her praise should be the uppermost theme,
A woman spoke of some new tale she had read,
A man confusedly in a half dream
As though some other name ran in his head.
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised. 10
I will talk no more of books or the long war
But walk by the dry thorn until I have found
Some beggar sheltering from the wind, and there
Manage the talk until her name come round.
If there be rags enough he will know her name 15
And be well pleased remembering it, for in the old days,
Though she had young men’s praise and old men’s blame,
Among the poor both old and young gave her praise.