【摘抄】“我的爱是自私的”
13th October, 1819
College street
My dearest girl,
This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content.
I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my mind for ever so short a time.
Upon my soul I can think of nothing else.
The time is passed when I had power to advise and warn you against the unpromising morning of my life.
My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again.
My life seems to stop there I see no further. You have absorbed me.
I have a sensation at the present moment as though i was dissolving.
此时此刻，我有一种销魂蚀骨的感觉。
I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. I should be afraid to separate myself far from you.
想要很快见到你——如果无望，我会痛苦不已。
我害怕与你分隔太远。
My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change？
我亲爱的芳妮，你的心永远不会变吧？
My love, will it？I have no limit now to my love.
我的爱会变吗？我的爱如今已彻底敞开。
Your note came in just here.I cannot be happier away from you. It is richer than an argosy of pearls.
你的短笺我刚收到：“离开你甭提我有多痛快了，比得到一大船珍珠还开心。”
Do not threat me, even in jest.
不要威胁我，哪怕是开玩笑。
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion. I have shuddered at it.
我一直对那些为宗教而殉道的人感到诧异，我为此不寒而栗过。
I shudder no more i could be martyred for my religion.
如今我不再战栗了，我也可以为我的宗教殉道。
Love is my religion. I could die for that.
爱情就是我的宗教。我可以为它去死。
I could die for you.
我可以为你献身。
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
爱情是我的信条，而你是它唯一的教义。
You have ravished me away by a power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavored often to reason against the reasons of my love.
I can do that no more; the pain would be too great.
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
Yours for ever
John Keats
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