The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver By Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 –1950) 豎琴編織者之歌( 30 節敘事體) 作者: 艾德娜 ·聖文森· 米蕾 譯者: 刁卿蕙 錄自《米蕾詩選》 https://arttiaobooks.blogspot.com/2023/03/poetry-selected-poems-of-edna-st.html “ Son, ” said my mother, When I was knee-high, “ You’ve need of clothes to cover you, And not a rag have I. 「兒啊,」我母親說, 當我身高及膝頭, 「你需要衣服來遮掩」, 而我連塊破布也沒有。 “ There’s nothing in the house To make a boy breeches, Nor shears to cut a cloth with Nor thread to take stitches. 房裡啥都無 可給男孩做件褲, 沒剪可裁衣 也沒線可縫布 “ There’s nothing in the house But a loaf-end of rye, And a harp with a woman’s head Nobody will buy, ” And she began to cry. 房裡啥都無 除了黑麥麵包皮, 和帶個女人頭的豎琴 沒人會買的,“ 她開始哭泣。 That was in the early fall. When came the late fall, “ Son, ” she said, “ the sight of you ...