～萨缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治
如果我有一双小小的翅膀；
如果我是披着羽毛的小鸟，
亲爱的，我会飞向你！
然而，这样的想法只是徒劳，
我还是，身处此地。
在睡梦中，我却飞向你：
我们永远在一起！在睡梦中，
完全是自己的世界。
可是，一觉醒来，我在哪里呢？
孤单，完全的孤单。
君王敕令，也留不住睡梦：
所以我爱在破晓之前醒来：
因为，就算睡意已经远离，
只要天色依旧黯黑，合上眼，
美梦，就会延长。
（桔子 译）
原文：
Something
Childish, But Very Natural
～Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If I had but two little wings
And were a little feathery bird,
To you I'd fly, my dear!
But thoughts like these are idle things,
And I stay here.
But in my sleep to you I fly:
I'm always with you in my sleep!
The world is all one's own.
But then one wakes, and where am I?
All, all alone.
Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids:
So I love to wake ere break of day:
For though my sleep be gone,
Yet while 'tis dark, one shuts one's lids,
And still dreams on.
Marc Chagall, Over the Town