要是我夢見你愛我，你休怪，

When I dream that you love me, you’ll surely forgive;

休要遷怒于睡眠;

Extend not your anger to sleep;

你的愛只在夢鄉存在，——

For in visions alone your affection can live,—

醒來，我空余淚眼。

I rise, and it leaves me to weep.

睡神!快封閉我的神志，

Then, Morpheus! envelope my faculties fast,

讓昏倦流布我周身;

Shed o’er me your languor benign;

愿今宵好夢與昨夜相似：

Should the dream of to-night but resemble the last,

像仙境一樣銷魂!

What rapture celestial is mine!

聽說，睡眠——死亡的姊妹，

They tell us that slumber, the sister of death,

也是死亡的樣品;

Mortality’s emblem is given;

天國倘若是這般滋味，

To fate how I long to resign my frail breath,

愿死神早早降臨!

If this be a foretaste of heaven!

舒眉展眼吧，美人，且息怒，

Ah! frown not, sweet lady, unbend your soft brow,

我何曾心花怒放;

Nor deem me too happy in this;

夢中的罪孽要清算：幸福

If I sin in my dream, I atone for it now,

只許我凝眸癡望。

Thus doom’d but to gaze upon bliss.

夢中，也許你笑口微開，

Though in visions, sweet lady, perhaps you may smile,

莫說我受罰還不夠!

Oh! think not my penance deficient!

入睡，被美夢欺哄;醒來，

When dreams of your presence my slumbers beguile,

這苦刑怎生忍受!

To awake will be torture sufficient.