《仲夏夜之梦》，是莎士比亚最著名的喜剧之一，讲述了有情人终成眷属的爱情故事：有两个英俊的小伙子拉山德（Lysander）和狄米特律斯（Demetrius）同时爱上了美丽的姑娘赫米雅（Hermia），但赫米娅只爱拉山德，她的好友另一漂亮姑娘海伦娜（Helena）恋上了狄米特律斯。赫米娅为了反对父亲包办婚姻要和情人拉山德私奔，约定好夜晚在森林里会面。海伦娜虽然自己深爱着狄米特律斯，却为了他的幸福，将这一消息告诉了他。。。这首诗就是海伦娜在给狄米特律斯通风报信前的独白： 
	海伦娜（绿岛阳光译--20-8-2013）
 很是不解在这世上 
为啥总有人能更幸福呀？
 虽然全雅典都认为我的美丽 
不在那赫米雅之下！
 那又有何用呢？ 
狄米特律斯眼瞎！ 
他已无救地爱上了赫米雅 
痴迷而不能自拔！ 
我自己又何尝不是如此？
 日夜想念无思不他！ 
爱由心起，爱遮慧眼 
爱屋及乌，爱掩疵瑕！ 
双翅轻盈却双眼无霞
 那就是描绘丘比特的画--- 
盲目的爱神---天哪！
 射出的情箭怎能不乱靶？ 
爱情犹如孩童的游戏 
嘻玩打闹真真假假！ 
记得狄米特律斯曾那样爱我 
允诺发誓只有我和他 
但赫米雅炙热的眼神 
瞬间将他的心和诺言融化！ 
可是，我却仍然要告诉他 
赫米雅私奔的计划 
让他明晚去树林里
 去等待她追求她 
虽然回报我的将是 
苦爱的无望和撕裂的心痂！ 
	莎士比亚原作：	
HELENA
How happy some o'er other some can be!
Through AthensI am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
He will not know what all but he do know:
And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities:
Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured every where:
For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,
He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:
Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her; and for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.
注：这也是绿岛在诗坛交的作业。

贴主:绿岛阳光于2021_10_21 16:39:03编辑