英语沙龙：On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again（在线收听）

On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again

golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! 

Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! 

Leave melodizing on this wintry day, 

Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute: 

Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute, 

Betwixt damnation and impassion'd clay 

Must I burn through; once more humbly assay 

The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit. 

Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion, 

Begetters of our deep eternal theme, 

When through the old oak forest I am gone, 

Let me not wander in a barren dream, 

But when I am consumed in the fire, 

Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.