As this twilight o'er the skies, Doubt brings the sorrow; Who knows when the daylight dies, What waits the morrow? Ah me, ah me! Be blithe, be blithe, my lute, Thy strings will soon be mute; Be blithe - hark! while it dies, The note forewarning, sighs Its last - Ah me! Ah me!英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
"The Nut-Brown Maid," in which we can hardly doubt that a woman pleads for women, was first printed in 1502 in Richard Arnold's Chronicle. Nut-brown was the old word for brunette. There was an old saying that "a nut-brown girl is neat and blithe by nature."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Full hastily our king was dight, So were his knight-es five, Each of them in monk-es weed, And hasted them thither blithe. Our king was great above his cowl, A broad hat on his crown, Right as he were abbot-like, They rode up into the town. Stiff boots our king had on, Forsooth as I you say, He rode sing-ing to green wood, The convent was clothed in gray, His mail horse, and his great som-ers, Followed our king behind, Till they came to green-e wood, A mile under the lind: There they met with good Rob-in, Standing on the way, And so did many a bold arch-er, For sooth as I you say.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"A poor beggar's daughter did dwell on a green, Who for her fairness might well be a queen: A blithe bonny lass, and a dainty was she, And many one call-ed her pretty Bessee.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Blithe is life in such a land! A feeling akin to rapture is diffused through all my veins. The air is pure and fresh, like the kiss of a child; the sun is bright, the sky is blue -- what more could one possibly wish for? What need, in such a place as this, of passions, desires, regrets? [1] Pushkin. Compare Shelley's Adonais, xxxi. 3: "as the last cloud of an expiring storm."
However, it is time to be stirring. I will go to the Elizaveta spring -- I am told that the whole society of the watering-place assembles there in the morning.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
I love the way surgeons blithely suggest cutting through my cerebral cortex to remove part of my brain.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》