LOVE IS CRUEL, LOVE IS SWEET
Thomas MacDonagh
Love is cruel, love is sweet, --
Cruel sweet,
Lovers sigh till lovers meet,
Sigh and meet --
Sigh and meet, and sigh again --
Cruel sweet! O sweetest pain!
Love is blind -- but love is sly,
Blind and sly.
Thoughts are bold, but words are shy --
Bold and shy --
Bold and shy, and bold again --
Sweet is boldness, -- shyness pain.
愛情殘忍愛情甜
郭沫若 譯
愛情殘忍愛情甜,——
殘忍而又甜,
情人腸斷到相見,
腸斷到相見——
腸斷到相見,相別腸又斷——
殘忍的`甜呵!最甜的腸斷!
愛情盲目愛情尖,
盲目而又尖,
心事勇敢言靦腆——
勇敢而靦腆——
勇敢而靦腆,回頭又勇敢——
勇敢是甜呵,——靦腆令腸斷。