For 'tis an alien tongue, of alien things,
From all men's care, how miserably apart! Even my friends say: 'Of what is this he sings?'
And barren is my song, and barren is my heart.英文原著 · 《New Poems》
And now the heavy wrath of God Upon their uncle fell; Yea, fearful fiends did haunt his house, His conscience felt an hell: His barns were fired, his goods consumed, His lands were barren made, His cattle died within the field, And nothing with him staid.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Barren as crime, anhungered and athirst,
Blank miles of moor sweep inland, sere and blind,
Where summer's best rebukes not winter's worst.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
He himself, very timid and conscious of his awkwardness, sat near, trying barrenly to get some of his thoughts out of his brain on to his tongue.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
She passed a chapel, at such a height it could be seen remotely. It was a little gray old chapel in the midst of the barren. A clump of trees, gray too, and almost leafless, seemed like hair to it, pushed by some invisible hand all on one side.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
And so they went their way, in the cold evening wind, full of the odour of the sea, passing here and there, on the barren heath, some poor hovels, where beach-combers dwelt and had already sealed themselves up for the night; dark and neglected they looked under the weather-beaten roofs; these crosses, clumps of reeds, and boulders they left behind.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》