a beautiful poem by Chaucer

委屈

CANTUS TROILI
 
By Geoffrey Chaucer

If Love lives not, O God, what feel I so?
And if Love lives, what thing and which is He?
If Love is good, from where has come my woe?
If it be bad, it's a wonder, thinks me,
since every torment and adversity
which comes from it savors of joys distinct
and still I thirst, the more of it I drink.
And if it's from my own desire I burn,
what spring gives forth my wailing and complaint?
If hurt pleases, why should my plaint return?
I know not, nor why, in health, I grow faint.
O live death! O strange hurt with Love's sweet taint,
how might you fester in such quantity
unless I give consent for it to be?
If I consent, I wrongfully devote
my heart to sorrow. Thus tossed, two and fro,
quite rudderless, I sit within a boat
in a sea which two winds must undergo;
each blasts against its contrary echo.
Alas! what strange malady have I got?
I die from heat when cold, from cold when hot.

特罗勒斯情歌

[英]乔叟 (1340-1400)

假使爱不存在，天哪，我所感受的是什么？
假使爱存在，他究竟是怎样一件东西？
假使爱是好的，我的悲伤何从而降落？
假使爱是坏的。我想却有些希奇，
哪管它带来了多少苦难和乖戾，
好似生命之源，竟能引起我无限的快感；
使我愈喝得多，愈觉得口里干燥。
如果我已在欢乐中活跃，
有何处来这愁诉和悲号？
如果灾难能与我相容，何不破涕为笑？
我要请问，既未疲劳，何以会晕倒？
啊，生中之死，啊，祸害迷人真奇巧，
若不是我自己给了你许可
你怎敢重重叠叠压在我心头。
可是我若许可了，我就不该再作苦诉。
我终日飘荡，象在无舵的船中浮海，
无边无岸，吹着相反的风向，
永远如此漂逐，忽上又忽下。
呀，这是一种什么奇特的病症，
冷中发热，热中发冷，断送我生命

Sorry I do not get the name of translator...

苹果娃娃

Chaucer is the father of English poety!

Artemisia

What's love? [em71]

苹果娃娃

love is just a special feeling

绿叶和树

 love is bitter-sweet!  the most beautiful thing in world is to love and be loved in return

hugohewei

yes,love just the special feeling,and if you believe this ,this feeling will give you the power and make you happy!