如何用英文给女朋友写情书 盘点写给女生浪漫到哭的英文情书(6)

　　8、雪莱的唯美情书：

　　雪莱是一名柏拉图主义者，也是个理想主义者。1811年，雪莱邂逅了28岁的伊丽莎白·西琴勒。

　　伊丽莎白是一名教师，拥有先锋派思想，雪莱将其视为自己的心灵知己和缪斯女神，两人一直保持着通信往来和纯洁的精神友谊。

　　有趣的是，两人还在通信中对爱情是什么进行了严谨的学术探讨。

　　What is love, or friendship? Is it something material...a ball, an apple, a plaything...which must be taken from one to be given to another? Is it capable of no extension, no communication? Lord Kaimes defines love to be a particularization of the general passion. But this is the love of sensation, of sentiment...the absurdest of absurd vanities: it is the love of pleasure, not the love of happiness.

　　何谓爱情?何谓友情?是一些实在的东西吗?是球、苹果、玩偶……是从一个人那儿拿来，又给予另一个人的实物吗?是不能深化、不能交流的吗?Kaimes勋爵给爱情下的定义是，爱情是一般激情的特殊体现，但这是肉欲之爱、情欲之爱……是荒谬绝伦的逢场作戏，是寻欢作乐的爱，不是幸福的爱。

　　But love, the love which we worship , ... virtue, heaven, disinterestedness ... in a word, Friendship ... which has as much to do with the senses as with yonder mountains; that which seeks the good of all ... the good of its object first, not because that object is a minister to its Pleasures, not merely because it even contributes to its happiness, but because it is really worthy, because it has powers, sensibilities, is capable of abstracting itself, and loving virtue's own loveliness ...

　　但我们崇拜的爱，象征美德、天意和无私，一句话，真情……它能被感知，就像远方山头上的云朵一样。它追求大家的幸福……首先是对方的幸福，不是因为对方给予欢乐，不光它甚至能给予欢乐，更因为它真的值得，它有力量，有感知力，并能将自己抽离，因为美德的可爱而热爱美德……

　　9、约翰·济慈的唯美情书

　　诗人济慈一生短暂而璀璨。他23岁时遇到邻家女孩芬妮·勃劳恩(Fanny Brawne)，两人坠入爱河。悲哀的是，当时济慈已患有肺结核，健康每况愈下，两人订了婚却没等到结婚。

　　1821年，25岁的济慈为避严寒而奔赴意大利，最终客死他乡。

　　在这段甜蜜而苦涩的爱情中，济慈留下了整整三打情书。他下葬时，胸口还放着一封写给芬妮的信。芬妮一生都没有取下与济慈订婚的戒指。

　　2009年的济慈传记电影《明亮的星》(Bright Star)剧照

　　I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me.

　　没有你我无法存活。我忘却了一切，只想着要与你再见。我的生命似乎就此终止，没有更远的未来。你占据了我的一切。

　　I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving ….I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shudder’d at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr’d for my religion – love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet – you have ravish’d me away by a power I cannot resist.

　　我有一种感觉，就在这一刻我似乎正在消融……我曾惊讶于有人会为宗教而牺牲，我曾一想到这就战栗不已。现在我不再为此战栗了。我也可以为我的宗教牺牲。爱就是我的宗教，我可以为它而死，我可以为你而死。我的信经就是爱，而你就是它唯一的信条。你用我无法抵抗的力量将我彻底摧毁。