Invincible 83

"Daffodils" (1804) 
I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 

這是一首勵志的詩，主題是不要放棄，作者不詳，有人製作影片放到Youtube上，雖然不是將這首詩讀出來，但是影片跟詩的內容結合地相當好，還有配上音樂，很值得一看。
 

"DON’T QUIT"

When things go wrong 
as they some times will,
When the road your trudging
seems all up hill,
When the funds are low
and the debt are high,
When you want to smile
but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing
you down a bit,
Rest if you must 
but don’t you quit.

Success is failure
turned inside out,
The silver tint
of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell
how close you are,
It may be near
when it seems afar,
So stick to the fight
when your hardest hit,
It’s when things go wrong,
That you must not quit.

這首詩作者是e.e. cummings，是一首情詩，是我很喜歡的一首詩，曾經在電影「偷穿高跟鞋」中出現過，是由飾演妹妹的Cameron Diaz讀給姊姊的詩，我在Youtube上面找到了這一段影片，可以聽聽Cameron Diaz是如何唸這首詩的。
 
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)