W.B.Yeats 1

Shining Days

1893-1899

Though you are in your shining days,

Voices among the crowd

And new friends busy with your praise,

Be not unkind or proud,

But think about old friends the most:

Time’s bitter flood will rise.

Your beauty perish and be lost

For all eyes but these eyes.

W. B. Yeats, ‘The Lover Pleads with his Friend for Old Friends’ (first published July 1897)

1893

Only a few letters are available as early as 1893, including one from Yeats in January and a couple shortly after from Maud Gonne, in connection with the new Irish libraries' scheme in which they were involved with Count Plunkett, C. H. Oldham and others. Maud was not able to fulfil all the engagements made for her as she was ill in Paris in January, but in February she lectured in Loughrea and New Ross. Her first letter also indicates their common interest in mysticism and visions.

WBY 1 (fragment)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [London]

[January 1893]

My dear ‘Scotia’1

I am trying to arrange the following set of lectures for you and am writing to all the places except Omagh which Plunkett undertakes and Cork for which a certain John O’Mahony2 will be responsible. The[re] will I think be no difficulty as we have been already applied to by all the places mentioned. At Cork between 20 & 27th of January, at Westport (Co Mayo) between 27th & 2nd Feb, at Castlerea (Roscommon) between 4th & 8th of Feb, Loughrea between 12th & 15th Feb. There is a meeting in Dublin on 17th February at which we hope you will speak & report progress. You will then go to New Ross & lecture between 20th Feb & Feb 25 & then go on to Listowel & [End of letter missing]

1.   ‘Scotia’ was a name WBY used for MG in the early days of their friendship. See L (K), 341.

2.   John O’Mahony (d. 1904), a journalist and later successful barrister, was a member of the National Literary Society and married Nora Tynan, sister of the poet Katharine Tynan, in 1895.

闪光年华

1893-1899 

虽然你正当闪光年华,

群众和新交的嗓音

都忙于把你赞夸，

但不要薄情或骄矜，

而应最多地想念旧友：

时光的苦涩洪水将泛起，

除了在这些眼里，在所有

眼里，你的美都将消失。

W.B.叶芝 恋人替旧友们恳求女友 （1897年7月第一次出版）（傅浩 译）

1893

早至 1893 年 只能寻着几封信件 一封叶芝一 月写的 还有之后茅岗写的几封 同他们与普朗克特  C.H.奥尔德姆等人参与的新爱尔兰图书馆计划相关 由于 一月在巴黎生病 莫德无法完成所有为她安排的活动 但二 月她在拉夫雷亚  新罗斯演讲 她的第一封信还表明了他们都对神秘主义和幻视感兴趣

叶芝 1（残稿）

我亲爱的“斯科蒂阿”1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [伦敦]

[1893年一月]

我试着为你安排接下来的演讲 除了普朗克特负责的奥马和约翰奥马霍尼负责的科克 我给其他地方都写了信  我认为不会有困难 因为所有提到的地方都已向我们提出了请求 一月二十至二十七日在科克 二十七日至二月二日在西港（梅奥郡）二月四日至八日在卡斯尔雷（罗斯康芒郡） 二月十二日至十五日在拉夫雷亚 二月十七日我们希望你能在都柏林的会议上讲话&汇报进度 然后你将前往新罗斯&二月二十日至二十五日演讲&然后前往利斯托尔&[信件结尾缺失]

1.  “斯科蒂阿”是 叶芝在他们友谊初期对茅岗的称呼。 见 L (K), 341。

2. 约翰奥马霍尼（1904年去世）记者 后成为成功的律师 国家文学协会成员 1895年娶凯瑟琳泰南之妹诺拉泰南