The Lost Love

By William Wordsworth

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove;

A maid whom there were none to praise,

And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!

---Fair as a star, when only one

Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and oh,

The difference to me!

她居住在白鴿泉水的旁邊，

無人來往的路徑通往四面；

一位姑娘不曾受人稱讚，

也不曾受過別人的愛憐。

苔蘚石旁的一株紫羅蘭，

半藏著沒有被人發現！

美麗得如同天上的星點，

一顆唯一的星清輝閃閃。

她生無人知，死也無人唁，

不知她何時去了人間；

但她安睡在夢中，哦可憐，

對於我呵是個地異天變。