曾經幾時乃我最後一次寓目
看月亮之黑豹渾圓的
綠眼及修長扭動的身體？
彼狂野的女巫，那些最尊之貴婦，
曾經如何以掃帚和眼淚，以他們
憤憊的眼淚知名，業以遁形。
岡陵上神聖的人頭馬隱去；
除了忿怒的太陽我一無所有；
流放英勇的月亮的母親並且隱去，
而我既然已屆滿五十週年
且與那怯懦的太陽周旋。

Lines Written in Dejection

When have I last looked on
The round green eyesand the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
The holy centaurs of the hills are vanished;
I have nothing but the embittered sun;
Banished heroic mother moon and vanished,
And now that I have come to fifty years
I must endure the timid sun..