回复 '立' 的评论 :
The Greek mythology origin of this phase has fascinated me.
Also, “rosy” is related to “Rose” and “finger” rhymed with “linger”; kind of a perfect choice in terms of color, sound, and meaning.
:)
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I think it must be the Rosy-Fingered Dawn
breaks your lovely dreams
and brings you here
into li’s
extremely weird
black-blog worlds
words
at the beginning
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About the "rosy-fingered dawn",a little bite research:
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is an epithet from Homer’s “Odyssey,” a portent of new beginnings in an ongoing journey.
fingered - definition, etymology and usage, examples and related words
"Lore of Proserpine" by Maurice Hewlett
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Her feet and hands were very lovely, the toes and fingers long and narrow, rosy-brown.
She wore no rings, and her fingers had the rosy pinkness of health.
"A Maker of History" by E. Phillips Oppenheim
It was a small hand, but the fingers were long, tapering and very white, each terminating in a rosy nail.
"Before the Dawn" by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
He took her hand, a beautifully slender, nervous hand, warm and soft, with rosy, tapering fingers.
"The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)" by Various
The squalling of an infant ushered in the rosy-fingered dawn.
"The Great White Tribe in Filipinia" by Paul T. Gilbert
He cut out the skin of the arm where her rosy fingers had rested.
"Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln" by Charles L. Marson
Come, rosy fingers, gather the treasure!
"Little Folks (December 1884)" by Various
Everything awoke when they felt the touch of her rosy fingers, and smiled as they saw her happy face.
"Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children" by Flora J. Cooke
Rosy clear The light oozed through her fingers o'er her face.
"Vashti" by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
He talks with his fingers, Rosie.
"The Rosie World" by Parker Fillmore
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So may the rosy-fingered hours
Lead on the various year,
And every joy, which now is yours,
Extend a larger sphere.
"Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference" by William Cowper
I marked an old man yesterday,
His body many-fingered grief
Distorted as a frozen leaf;
He fell, and cursed the rosy way.
"Lean Over Me" by Digby Mackworth Dolben
ERE yet the dawn
Pushed rosy fingers up the arch of day
And smiled its promise to the voiceless prime,
Love sat and patterns wove at life's great loom.
"From 'The Hills Of Life'" by Albert Durrant Watson
When rosy-finger'd Morn had ting'd the Clouds,
Around their Monarch-Mouse the Nation crouds,
Slow rose the Monarch, heav'd his anxious Breast,
And thus, the Council fill'd with Rage, addrest.
"Homer's Battle Of The Frogs And Mice. Book II" by Thomas Parnell
At last comes another August with mist and rain and shine;
Its mornings are slowly counted and creep to twenty-nine,
And when on the western summits the fading light appears,
It touches with rosy fingers the last of my fifty years.
"At A Meeting Of Friends" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
They well-known rosy colours of his face
Were almost lost in grey.
We saw that, dying and in hopeless case,
For others' sake that day
He'd smothered all rebellious groans: in death
His fingers were tight clenched between his teeth.
"The Dead Fox Hunter" by Robert Graves
Blake 's pirates, goggle-eyed and snaggle-toothed, finger their loot with dopey smiles as Rosie and Stickerino approach.
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回复 '影云' 的评论 :
谢谢你的翻译。翻译的真好。
rosy-fingered dawn,用的真棒。
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这首诗极为美! 呼应着摄影和绘画并合作品!
我斗胆翻译了一下。
A Rose and Lingering Love
A rose in memory
Is the lingering love
The Twisting curves
Stretching
Into the withering fall
But on the wall
The shadow of the summer rose
on a perished twig
In the distance
The rosy-fingered dawn is
Breaking