영국의 작가. 극, 아동문학, 수필, 추리소설 분야에서 좋은 작품을 많이 남겼다. 케임브리지대학교 출신. 유머 잡지 《펀치》의 편집자로 일하면서 널리 읽히는 수필을 썼다. 희곡으로《핌씨 지나가시다 Mr. Pim Passes By》(1919) 《블레이즈의 진실 The Truth about Blayds》(1921) 《도버 가도(街道) The Dover Road》(192
2.해석
아기
귀여운 아기야, 넌 어디에서 왔니?
우주에서 이리로 왔어요.
그처럼 푸른 눈을 어디에서 얻었지?
푸른 하늘을 지나올 때 얻었지요.
어쩌면 눈빛이 그렇게 반짝이지?
별님의 빛살이 좀 남아 있나 봐요.
그 작은 눈물 방울은 어디에서 났니?
이리로 오니 기다리고 있던 걸요.
네
Point of View
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
Christmas dinner's dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey's point of view.
Sunday dinner isn't sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.
Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
Till I stopped and looked at dinner
From
Footprints in the Sand
Mary Stevenson
One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed tha
Antony's Oration
from Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene ii
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answ
2.해석
아버지의 기도
오 주여, 제 아이를 이런 사람으로 만들어 주소서. 자신의 약한 부분을 알 만큼 강하고, 두려울 때 두려워하는 자신에 맞설 만큼 용감하고, 공정한 패배에 자랑을 느끼며 꿋꿋하고, 승리를 얻었을 때는 겸허하고 너그러운 사람이 되게 하소서.
제 아이는 등뼈가 들어서야 할 자
How to Be Old
It is easy to be young. (Everybody is,
at first.) It is not easy
to be old. It takes time.
Youth is given; age is achieved.
One must work a magic to mix with time
in order to become old.
Youth is given. One must put it away
like a doll in a closet,
take it out and play with it only
on holidays. One must have many dresses
and dress the doll impeccably
(but not
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king.
(J. R. R. Tolkien, from The Lords of the Rings)
One Inch Tall
If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.
A crumb of cake would be a feast
And last you seven days at least.
A flea would be a frightening beast
If you were one inch tall.
If you were only one inch tall, you'd walk beneath the door,
And it would take about a month to get down to the store.
Wind and Water and Stone
The water hollowed the stone,
the wind dispersed the water,
the stone stopped the wind.
Water and wind and stone.
The wind sculpted the stone,
the stone is a cup of water,
The water runs off and is wind.
Stone and wind and water.
The wind sings in its turnings,
the water murmurs as it goes,
the motionless stone is quiet.
Wind and water and stone.