我的第一本书实在应当写写，如果不写，我就枉读了这几十年的书，更枉写了这几十年的诗。

The first book I really ought to write, if not to write, I have to read this for decades, more to write this decades of poetry.

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1855年，惠特曼自费出版了他12首诗的第一版。

In 1855, Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of his collection of twelve poems.

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然而，在2017年的教师节，康收到了一个大盒子，里面装满了她以前学校的学生写的诗和信件。

However, on Teachers' Day in 2017, Kang received a big box full of poems and letters written by students at her old school.

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Let me conclude by just pointing to another poem, a late poem, "Directive," a poem published in 1947.

让我们看看另一首诗来作为结尾吧，一首晚期的诗，1947年发表的“指令“

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Through Yeats's poem, Easter, 1916 goes on happening, happening in a sense in and even to us.

通过叶芝的这首诗，1916年复活节起义之事，就好像在我们眼前发生。

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We hear in the 1637 Lycidas those same cries of unripeness and under-preparation that we had heard in the 1631 sonnet, "How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth."

我们在1637年的里听到过,与1631年的十四行诗相同的不成熟和未完成的呼喊，“时光如此飞快，如同偷走青春的窃贼“

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