When you are old, gray-haired and full of hope.
Feel around the fire and take down the book.
Reading slowly, dreaming of KF's soft appearance.
Your eyes were once, and their shadows were deep;
How many people love your happy and elegant moments,
Loving your beauty with true or false love,
But there is one person who loves your pilgrim soul,
Love the sadness on your aging face;
Sitting by the glowing fireplace,
Whispered a little sadly, how much I love FIED
Pacing on the mountains overhead
Hide his face among the stars.
when you are old
Bai Fei translation
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy,
Take a nap in front of the stove, please take down this poem.
Back slowly, dreaming of your eyes,
Soft light and faint shadows;
How many people have loved your beauty with sincerity and hypocrisy,
Love your happy and charming youth,
Only one person loves your pilgrim heart,
Love the sadness on your aging face;
When you lean over the burning fireplace,
You will speak softly, with a hint of sadness:
The lost love has now set foot on the mountain.
Hide its face in a dense cluster of stars.
Ye Zhi (William Butler Yeats 1865 ~ 1939) is an Irish poet and playwright. 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. He was born into a painter's family in Dublin and was a political aristocrat. Early works include aestheticism and romanticism. After the 1990s, due to the support of Irish national autonomy movement, the poetic style gradually became solid, clear and close to reality. Representative works include the poetic drama Catherine in Hulimak (1902) and Easter in 2006 (19 192 1). Since the mid-1920s, because he is close to people's life and is keen on the study of metaphysical poetry, his works combine realism, symbolism and philosophical thoughts, and express the contradictory unity of good and evil, life and death, beauty and ugliness, spirit and body with carefully rehearsed spoken language and rich symbolic techniques, which has high artistic value. His excellent poems include Bell Tower (1928), Spiral Stairs (1929) and Sailing to Byzantium.
-This is a love poem written by the famous Irish poet William Butler Yeats to the famous Irish actor Maud Gunn. This poem is like an elegant and soothing serenade, always telling the sadness of love sincerely and gently. Ye Zhi was only 29 years old when he wrote this poem. It was a season of love, and the air was filled with the smell of lovers.