Love Is Not All

★ Love Is Not All ☆ Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, Pinned down by pain and moaning for release, Or nagged by want past resolution's power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would. ▲ Chinese Translation ★ 爱情不是全部 ☆ [美国] 埃德娜•圣•文森特•米莱 (1892-1950) 诗 ☆ [中国] 罗志海 (1954-) 译 爱情不是全部：不是酒肉饭菜 既不是熟睡也不是挡雨的屋顶 也不是让男人淹没的浮石块 上升，下沉，再次上升、下沉 爱情不能填补气喘吁吁的肺部 既不能清洁血液，也不能驳接断骨 然而，许多人正在与死亡交朋友 甚至我说话时，缺乏爱情的孤独 很可能，此时正处在困难的时候 身上疼痛，呻吟悲叹 或者抱怨想着从前大权独揽 我可能不得不出售你的爱情换取和平 或为了今晚的食物交易记忆片断 也有可能，我认为我不会这样干 2015年5月6日翻译 On May 6 2015, Translation