2112:01 上午

you are my reason to live
by robert burns

You are my reason to live.
All I own I would give,
Just to have you adore me.

You are to me a delicious torment.
Had we never so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly,
Never met-or never parted-
We had ne'ver been broken-hearted!

　　外国的诗人知道的不多，Robert burns也不知是谁，只是偶然翻诗集，看到这篇名为《You are my reason to live》的情诗。外国人写情诗和我们的古代诗人们不同，他们喜欢直白，喜欢直接抒情，你是月亮（见艾伦坡的有名诗句），你是繁星（见海伦·吉森的《望星》），得到你我多么欢喜，得不到你我多么伤心，含蓄内敛的中国人读外国人的情诗往往觉得不可思议——这些一点没有味道的情诗怎么能打动贵妇人们的春心的呢？
　　还是咱们老祖宗们的情诗写的有味道：油壁香车难再逢峡云无迹任西东梨花院落溶溶月柳絮池塘淡淡风几日寂寥伤酒后一番萧瑟禁烟中鱼书欲寄何由达水远山长处处同（晏殊《无题》）。不写如何深爱，只写风之寂寥、月之萧索，一往情深自见。风月写了几千年，却新意迭出，不能不说是中文的美妙之处了。