我欢喜你
沈从文

你的聪明像一只鹿，
你的别的许多德性又像一匹羊；
我愿意来同羊温存，
又耽心鹿因此受了虚惊：
故在你面前只得学成如此沉默，
（几乎近于抑郁了的沉默！）
你怎么能知？
我贫乏到一切：
我不有美丽的毛羽，
并那用言语来装饰他热情的本能也无！
脸上不会像别人能挂上点殷勤，
嘴角也不会怎样来常深着微笑，
眼睛又是那样笨——
追不上你意思所在。

别人对我无意中念到你的名字，
我心就抖战，身就沁汗！
并不当到别人，
只在那有星子的夜里，
我才敢低低喊你的名字。

I Love You
Shen Congwen

You have deer-like agility,
the innocence of a lamb–
I would play with the lamb
yet worry lest the deer take fright;
I have thus learnt to be silent
(almost melancholy!)
so how could you know?

I am really poor:
no beautiful plumes,
nor the instinct to adorn passion with language!
No good at expressing myself with a smile of the lips,
my eyes are too slow to look upon anyone else’s intent.

The moment anyone chances to mention your name,
my heart jumps, and I break into a sweat.
Only alone on a dark starry night
would I dare to whisper it.

（Rewi Alley 译）