希尼回忆道，一首诗的第一行叫做“沼泽地”，例如，对于他来说就是把他的右脚放进裤子里面。

The first line of a poem called “Bogland”, for example, came to him as he was putting his right leg into his trousers, he recalls.

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父亲说，“他不相信自己的天资”，或是，“他总是受不如自己的人影响”，或者，他会称赞道登的诗《断念者》，来印证他可能写过的东西。

"He will not trust his nature/' he would say, or "he is too much influenced by his in- feriors, " or he would praise "Renunciants, " one of Dowden's poems, to prove what Dowden might have written .

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她把诗拿给姐妹们欣赏时，她们赞叹着羡慕道：“多么浪漫呀……我真希望哪一天也有人写如此感人的情诗给我。”

She showed it to her sister who sighed and said, “How romantic… I wish someone would write me a poem like that.”

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Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.

因为亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压，迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华：,利西达斯死了，死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道，他是不得以写这首诗的。

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