To-
ジョン・キーツはかつて、ある若い女性と数分間会っただけで、彼女に魅了され、心を痛めるほどになった。
To -
TIME’S sea hath been five years at its slow ebb,
Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand,
Since I was tangled in thy beauty’s web,
And snared by the ungloving of thine hand.
And yet I never look on midnight sky,
But I behold thine eyes’ well memoried light;
I cannot look upon the rose’s dye,
But to thy cheek my soul doth take its flight.
I cannot look on any budding flower,
But my fond ear, in fancy at thy lips
And harkening for a love-sound, doth devour
Its sweets in the wrong sense:—Thou dost eclipse
Every delight with sweet remembering,
And grief unto my darling joys dost bring.
覚え書き
後に気づいたのですが、この詩To - ["Time's sea"]の最後の2行
Every delight with sweet remembering,
And grief unto my darling joys dost bring.
は、シェイクスピアのsonnet CXIIIにある
Even so, being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding.
と、韻律の点でいくらか似ています。以前、キーツのこの詩の脚注に「情緒の構築における韻律の扱い方、次第に高まる音楽性の点で、シェイクスピアのソネットに極めて似ている」と書かれているのを見たのも、なるほどと思わせます。