Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

Milton's subject in his first English poem is -- we can guess it it's his future literary career.

弥尔顿在他的第一首英语诗歌里的主题，我们可以猜一下,是他将来的文学事业。

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As far as I know -- I know of no exception, although someone may well be able to produce one no original poem in English had ever been published with line numbers in the margin in its very first printing.

就我所知，无一例外，尽管有些人能很好的制作出摹本,但英语原版诗歌从不在首次印刷的时候,把行数印在页边空白处。

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One man reads from a poem by the English writer,John Keats: " 'She cannot fade, though thou has not thy bliss, Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair.'

VOA: special.2010.01.03

This is the English translation because the poem is in Latin: Because you loved the blush of modesty and a stainless youth and because you did not taste the delight of the marriage-bed, lo! the rewards of virginity are reserved for you.

诗是用拉丁文写的，这是英文翻译：,诗歌大意：，你爱羞怯的脸红和无瑕的青春,未品尝过婚床上的欢愉，瞧！，你将因这贞洁获得奖赏。

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It was not Frost, for on my Flesh I felt Siroccos- crawl- "That poem and that grammatical structure, it is classically the way people in Ireland speak English."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Now in the first original poem that Milton wrote in English, titled "At a Vacation Exercise," Milton and you will come to recognize this as so unbelievably Miltonic Milton doesn't write about love or about death or about any of the subjects that typically engage the youngest practitioners of poetry.

现在，在弥尔顿的英语诗歌中，第一首原创诗的名字叫做假日练习,弥尔顿和你们都将认为这是难以置信的弥尔顿风格的诗,他没有写爱或死亡,或者任何,常常吸引年轻诗歌创作者的主题。

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If you're not taking notes in this lecture, you have to write down at least one sentence. You must write this down because this will be the most important thing I say all morning: Milton's Paradise Lost is the first narrative poem in English that didn't rhyme.

就算你们这堂课不记笔记，也一定要记下至少一句话，一定要把这记下来,这是我一早上说的最重要的一句话了：,弥尔顿的《失乐园》是,第一首不押韵的英语叙事诗。

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