When you are old---William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep,
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur,a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
《当你老了》---叶芝
当你老了，白发苍苍，睡意昏沉，
在炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌，
慢慢读，回想你过去眼神的柔和，
回想它们昔日阴影的浓重；
多少人爱你年轻欢畅的时刻，
出于假意或真心地爱慕你的美貌；
只有一个人爱慕你那朝圣者的灵魂，
爱你逐渐老去的脸上痛苦的皱纹；
躬身在火光闪耀的炉火旁，
凄然地低语那爱的消逝，
在头顶的山上，爱缓缓的踱着步子，
将脸隐没在群星之中。
Love---by Roy Croft
I love you
Not for what you are,
But for what I am with you
I love you
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me,
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can't help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongs
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you
Because you are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song
I love you
You have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
without a touch,
without a word,
without a sign,
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.
《爱》---罗伊克里 夫特
我爱你，
不光因为你的样子，
还因为和你在一起时，我的样子。
我爱你，
不光因为你为我而做的事，
还因为，
为了你，我能做成的事。
我爱你，
因为你能唤出，
我最真的那部分。
我爱你，
因为你穿越我心灵的旷野，
如同阳光穿越水晶般容易。
我的傻气，我的弱点，
在你的目光里几乎不存在。
而我心里最美丽的地方，
却被你的光芒照的通亮。
别人都不曾费心走那么远，
别人都觉得寻找太麻烦，
所以没人发现过我的美丽，
所以没人到过这里。
我爱你，
因为你将我的生活化腐朽为神奇。
因为有你，
我的生命，
不再是平凡的旅店，
而成为了恢弘的庙宇，
我日复一日的工作里，
不再充满抱怨，
而是美妙的旋律。
我爱你，
因为你比信念更能使我的生活变得无比美好，
因为你比命运更能使我的生活变得充满欢乐。
而你做出这一切的一切，
不费一丝力气，
一句言辞，
一个暗示，
你做出这一切的一切，
只是因为你就是你，
毕竟，
这也许就是朋友的含义。
Love--- Sir Thomas Browne
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Don't try too hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,
so that when we finally meet the peron, we will know how to be grateful.
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it hapened.
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
《爱》---托马斯 布朗爵士
我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。
没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。
纵然伤心，也不要悉眉不展，因为你不知道是谁会爱上你的笑容。
对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某人，你是他的整个世界。
不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。
爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式爱你，那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。
不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。
在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别人；
在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。
不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。
生命是束纯净的火焰，我们依靠自己内心看不见的太阳而存在。