经典诗歌欣赏：A Roxbury Garden

　　下面是学习啦小编为大家带来艾米·洛威尔的经典诗歌：A Roxbury Garden，希望大家喜欢!

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　　Hoops

　　Blue and pink sashes,

　　Criss-cross shoes,

　　Minna and Stella run out into the garden

　　To play at hoop.

　　Up and down the garden-paths they race,

　　In the yellow sunshine,

　　Each with a big round hoop

学习啦在线学习网 　　White as a stripped willow-wand.

　　Round and round turn the hoops,

　　Their diamond whiteness cleaving the yellow sunshine.

　　The gravel crunches and squeaks beneath them,

学习啦在线学习网 　　And a large pebble springs them into the air

　　To go whirling for a foot or two

　　Before they touch the earth again

　　In a series of little jumps.

　　Spring, Hoops!

学习啦在线学习网 　　Spit out a shower of blue and white brightness.

　　The little criss-cross shoes twinkle behind you,

学习啦在线学习网 　　The pink and blue sashes flutter like flags,

学习啦在线学习网 　　The hoop-sticks are ready to beat you.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Turn, turn, Hoops! In the yellow sunshine.

　　Turn your stripped willow whiteness

　　Along the smooth paths.

　　Stella sings:

　　"Round and round, rolls my hoop,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Scarcely touching the ground,

　　With a swoop,

　　And a bound,

　　Round and round.

学习啦在线学习网 　　With a bumpety, crunching, scattering sound,

　　Down the garden it flies;

　　In our eyes

　　The sun lies.

学习啦在线学习网 　　See it spin

学习啦在线学习网 　　Out and in;

　　Through the paths it goes whirling,

学习啦在线学习网 　　About the beds curling.

　　Sway now to the loop,

　　Faster, faster, my hoop.

　　Round you come,

　　Up you come,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Quick and straight as before.

　　Run, run, my hoop, run,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Away from the sun."

　　And the great hoop bounds along the path,

　　Leaping into the wind-bright air.

　　Minna sings:

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学习啦在线学习网 　　Burn hoop,

　　Twist and twine

学习啦在线学习网 　　Hoop of mine.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Flash along,

　　Leap along,

　　Right at the sun.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Run, hoop, run.

　　Faster and faster,

　　Whirl, twirl.

　　Wheel like fire,

　　And spin like glass;

学习啦在线学习网 　　Fire's no whiter

　　Glass is no brighter.

　　Dance,

　　Prance,

　　Over and over,

　　About and about,

　　With the top of you under,

　　And the bottom at top,

学习啦在线学习网 　　But never a stop.

　　Turn about, hoop, to the tap of my stick,

学习啦在线学习网 　　I follow behind you

学习啦在线学习网 　　To touch and remind you.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Burn and glitter, so white and quick,

　　Round and round, to the tap of a stick."

　　The hoop flies along between the flower-beds,

　　Swaying the flowers with the wind of its passing.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Beside the foxglove-border roll the hoops,

学习啦在线学习网 　　And the little pink and white bells shake and jingle

学习啦在线学习网 　　Up and down their tall spires;

学习啦在线学习网 　　They roll under the snow-ball bush,

　　And the ground behind them is strewn with white petals;

学习啦在线学习网 　　They swirl round a corner,

学习啦在线学习网 　　And jar a bee out of a Canterbury bell;

学习啦在线学习网 　　They cast their shadows for an instant

　　Over a bed of pansies,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Catch against the spurs of a columbine,

　　Jostle the quietness from a cluster of monk's-hood.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Pat! Pat! behind them come the little criss-cross shoes,

　　And the blue and pink sashes stream out in flappings of colour.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Stella sings:

　　"Hoop, hoop,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Roll along,

　　Faster bowl along,

　　Hoop.

　　Slow, to the turning,

　　Now go! -- Go!

　　Quick!

　　Here's the stick.

　　Rat-a-tap-tap it,

　　Pat it, flap it.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Fly like a bird or a yellow-backed bee,

学习啦在线学习网 　　See how soon you can reach that tree.

　　Here is a path that is perfectly straight.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Roll along, hoop, or we shall be late."

　　Minna sings:

　　"Trip about, slip about, whip about

　　Hoop.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Wheel like a top at its quickest spin,

　　Then, dear hoop, we shall surely win.

　　First to the greenhouse and then to the wall

　　Circle and circle,

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学习啦在线学习网 　　Poke you,

　　Brush you,

学习啦在线学习网 　　And not let you fall.

　　Whirring you round like a wreath of mist.

　　Hoopety hoop,

　　Twist,

　　Twist."

　　Tap! Tap! go the hoop-sticks,

　　And the hoops bowl along under a grape arbour.

　　For an instant their willow whiteness is green,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Pale white-green.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Then they are out in the sunshine,

　　Leaving the half-formed grape clusters

学习啦在线学习网 　　A-tremble under their big leaves.

学习啦在线学习网 　　"I will beat you, Minna," cries Stella,

　　Hitting her hoop smartly with her stick.

　　"Stella, Stella, we are winning," calls Minna,

　　As her hoop curves round a bed of clove-pinks.

　　A humming-bird whizzes past Stella's ear,

　　And two or three yellow-and-black butterflies

　　Flutter, startled, out of a pillar rose.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Round and round race the little girls

　　After their great white hoops.

　　Suddenly Minna stops.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Her hoop wavers an instant,

　　But she catches it up on her stick.

学习啦在线学习网 　　"Listen, Stella!"

学习啦在线学习网 　　Both the little girls are listening;

　　And the scents of the garden rise up quietly about them.

　　"It's the chaise! It's Father!

学习啦在线学习网 　　Perhaps he's brought us a book from Boston."

　　Twinkle, twinkle, the little criss-cross shoes

　　Up the garden path.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Blue -- pink -- an instant, against the syringa hedge.

　　But the hoops, white as stripped willow-wands,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Lie in the grass,

　　And the grasshoppers jump back and forth

　　Over them.