by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

The Lake At Night
Language: English 
Our translations:  CHI
Sweet are the sounds that mingle from afar,
Heard by calm lakes, as peeps the folding star,
Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge,
And feeding pike starts from the water's edge,
Or the swan stirs the reeds, his neck and mill
Wetting, that drip upon the water still;
And now, on every side, the surface breaks
Into blue spots, and slowly lengthening streaks;
Here, plots of sparkling water tremble bright
With thousand thousand twinkling points of light:
And now the whole wide lake in deep repose
Is hushed, and like a burnished mirror glows.

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  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "夜间的湖", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ton van der Steenhoven

This text was added to the website: 2009-12-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 96