Ode to the West Wind

by Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

Ⅰ

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

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Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,

Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,

Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

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The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,

Each like a corpse within its grave, until

Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

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Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill

(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)

With living hues and odours plain and hill:

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Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;

Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!

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Ⅱ

Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,

Loose clouds like Earth's decaying leaves are shed,

Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,

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Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread

On the blue surface of thine airy surge,

Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

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Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge

Of the horizon to the zenith's height,

The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

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Of the dying year, to which this closing night

Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre

Vaulted with all thy congregated might

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Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere

Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O hear!

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Ⅲ

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams

The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,

Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams,

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Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,

And saw in sleep old palaces and towers

Quivering within the wave's intenser day,

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All overgrown with azure moss and flowers

So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou

For whose path the Atlantic's level powers

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Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below

The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear

The sapless foliage of the ocean, know

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Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,

And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!

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Ⅳ

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;

If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;

A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

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The impulse of thy strength, only less free

Than thou, O Uncontrollable! If even

I were as in my boyhood, and could be

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The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,

As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed

Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne'er have striven

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As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.

Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

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A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed

One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

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Ⅴ

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

What if my leaves are falling like its own!

The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

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Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,

Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,

My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

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Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!

And, by the incantation of this verse,

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Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawakened Earth

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The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

낭독 강의

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enchanter: (이야기 속의) 마법사

pestilence: 악성 전염병, 역병

multitude: 아주 많은 수, 다수, 일반 대중, 군중

thine : 당신의 것(yours)

azure: 하늘색의

bough: 가지

surge: (갑자기) 밀려듦[솟아오름]

Maenad: bacchante=바커스 (바쿠스) 신의 여사제, 여자술꾼, 열광한 여자

verge: 경계

zenith: 천정(天頂)

dirge: (장례식 때 부르는) 만가

sepulchre: 무덤, 묘

vault: 금고, 지하 납골당(묘지), 아치형 지붕(천장), 뛰어넘다

might: (강력한) 힘[에너지], 권력

lull: 달래다, 잠잠하게 만들다

pumice: 부석(浮石), 속돌

Baiae: 이탈리아 Campania 주의 고도(古都)

cleave: (무엇을 둘로) 쪼개다[가르다]

chasm: (땅·바위·얼음 속 등에 난) 아주 깊은 틈[구멍]

oozy: 줄줄 흘러나오는[내리는]

foliage: 나뭇잎

despoil: (어떤 장소에서 귀중한 것을) 빼앗다[훼손하다]

outstrip: (크기·중요성 등에서 …을) 앞지르다

in sore need: 몹시 곤궁하여

lyre: 리라, 수금(고대 현악기)

tumult: 소란, 소동

impetuous: 성급한, 충동적인

incantation: (마술을 걸기 위한) 주문[주문을 외기]

hearth: 난로

wind: <피리·나팔 등을> 불다(blow)