雙語詩歌|葉芝：海倫在世時 When Helen Lived

　　When Helen Lived

　　We have cried in our despair

　　That men desert,

　　For some trivial affair

　　Or noisy, insolent sport,

　　Beauty that we have won

　　From bitterest hours;

　　Yet we, had we walked within

　　Those topless towers

　　Where Helen walked with her boy,

　　Had given but as the rest

　　Of the men and women of Troy,

　　A word and a jest.

　　海倫在世時

　　我們曾絕望地呼喊：

　　人們?yōu)榱艘恍┈嵭嫉摹?/p>

　　紛擾無益的事情

　　而放棄了那位從艱難時日里

　　贏得的美女;

　　然而，若我們也緩步在

　　古代的高塔里，

　　看海倫與她的戀人走過，

　　我們也只如特洛伊的男男女女，

　　向她打個招呼，開句玩笑。