William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. A pediatrician practiced in his hometown, he was a major poet of the Imagist movement and a major writer in the modernist movement, helping to create a clear American voice.

威廉斯(1883-1963)在他的出生地新泽西州的一个小镇上度过一生。他是小儿科医生，他的许多短诗便是在看病之暇用打字机敲出来的。写诗以外，还写小说，剧本，评文。在他晚年，他的诗被黑山派奉为典范。他可能是美国诗人中读者最多的一位。

The Act

场景

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded.
	They won't last, she said
But they're so beautiful
	Where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she 
	said,
and cut them and gave them to me
	in my hand.
			

玫瑰花，在雨里。
别剪它们，我祈求。	
	它们撑不了多久，她说
可是它们在那里
	很美
哦，我们也都美过，她说，
剪下了它们，还把它们交到
	我手里。


(非马  译)
			

Poem

诗

As the cat
climbed over
the top of

the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot

carefully
then the hind
stepped down

into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot
			

当猫
爬上
果酱橱

顶
先是右
前足

小心翼翼
接着后足
踩落

到空
花盆的
陷阱里


(非马  译)
			

This Is Just to Say

这只是说

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which 
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
			

我吃了
冰箱
里面的
李子

那些
你也许
留起来
当早餐

原谅我
它们很好吃
又甜
又冰


(非马  译)