夏天的最後一朵玫瑰
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《夏天的最後一朵玫瑰》(The Last Rose of Summer),或譯夏天裏最後一朵玫瑰,是愛爾蘭詩人托馬斯·摩爾創作的一首詩。1805年,詩人在愛爾蘭基爾肯尼郡的詹金斯頓城堡(Jenkinstown Castle)中創作了這首詩,並在1813年出版。這首詩可以以愛爾蘭傳統曲調《年輕人的夢》(Aisling an Óigfhear)演唱[1],這個曲調本身則是愛爾蘭民歌搜集家愛德華·邦廷1792年在貝爾法斯特豎琴音樂節上記錄下來的[2]。它在後世被貝多芬等音樂家廣泛採用[3]。
詞
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'Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes
Or give sigh for sigh!
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one.
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them;
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o'er the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from love's shining circle
The gems drop away!
When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?[4]
電影
有多部電影作品的靈感來自這首詩,如1912年美國[5]、1920年英國[6]的同名默片。它還頻繁地出現在其它一些影視作品中,如1939年電影《春閨三鳳》中戴安娜·竇萍就演唱了這首詩[7]。
參考文獻
- ^ Walton's, editors. Ireland - The Songs Book 4. 1993.
- ^ Edward Bunting, A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (1796)
- ^ Axel Klein: "'All her lovely companions are faded and gone' – How The Last Rose of Summer Became Europe's Favourite Irish Melody" and its appendix, "Utilisations of 'The Last Rose of Summer', respectively 'The Groves of Blarney', by European Composers in the Nineteenth Century, in Chronological Order", in: Sarah McCleave & Brian Caraher (eds.): Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration. Poetry, Music, and Politics (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 128–145 & 231–253; ISBN 9781138281479 (hardback), ISBN 9781315271132 (e-book).
- ^ Moore, Thomas; Stevenson, John. A Selection of Irish Melodies. Number V. London: J. Power. 1813: 16.
- ^ "The Last Rose of Summer", The Moving Picture World (New York City), 5 October 1912. p. 14. Internet Archive, San Francisco. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Kenton Bamford, Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s (1999), p. 8
- ^ Three Smart Girls Grow Up. Deanna Durbin Devotees. [9 July 2013]. (原始內容存檔於2019-08-12).
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