英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

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英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme
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　　Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
　　London has swept about you this score years
　　And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
1 n/ w3 `! S" T, o$ V9 F1 M　　Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
$ s: _- d/ Z0 l　　Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
  _. x5 T! y- v8 ~/ c! U　　Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else.
  |! L6 E0 }3 C　　You have been second always. Tragical?
　　No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
: v+ ]8 |  q6 a$ G" a' ]) w　　One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
9 @1 `2 t! W2 Q　　One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
& O& ]  f' P+ R% e0 E# Y& K0 I1 r　　Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
4 Y2 b; j& g6 X7 [# P　　Hours, where something might have floated up.
, M3 H% j# ]7 ^5 _/ e' P* @4 Z　　And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
- `) X. t! ?. {8 n0 b. R( X5 y　　You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
) F9 f0 P$ r/ H* U　　And takes strange gain away:
2 C7 v  D, F  ^4 d( l　　Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
: [! K3 Q2 }! l. F　　Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
　　Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
8 V# I5 p3 p' T9 l6 Y* W3 \　　That might prove useful and yet never proves,
  Z. s4 y% C: w1 z　　That never fits a corner or shows use,
( g/ i: x2 J% J7 s5 L+ n# X( z　　Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
　　The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
　　Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
5 h( m% ^5 \; Z  u0 B　　These are your riches, your great store; and yet
1 Q4 t8 @1 ~4 U) `1 ~; Y2 t" V　　For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
1 H  D7 O1 r5 t　　Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
3 M$ H( s3 U- {) D　　In the slow float of differing light and deep,
　　No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
　　Nothing that's quite your own.
　　Yet this is you.
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