恋歌

他爱着她她爱着他

他没有其它愿望

只想把她的过去和未来吮吸进一个个吻中或者至少尝试

她咬他吞噬他吮吸他

她要他完整的进入自己身体

安全地确定地持续地永远地

他们小小的哭泣战栗着裹进窗帘

她的眼睛什么也不放过

她的视线落在他的手他的腕和他的肘上

他紧搂着她于是生活

不会把她从此刻拽走

他想要一切未来停止

他想躺着手臂将她环绕

不管有什么发生直到永远

她的拥抱让人窒息

把他打印进自己的骨头里

他的微笑是一处童话里的阁楼

在现实永远无法抵达之处

她的微笑是蜘蛛在噬咬

于是他静静的躺着直到她感到饥饿

他的话语指挥着占领军

她的笑声是一次暗杀

他的目光是复仇的子弹和匕首

她的一瞥是角落里有着恐怖秘密的鬼魂

他的呢喃像是军靴和皮鞭

她的吻像律师坚定的签名

他的进攻像一艘沉船抛出的最后一钩锚

她的技巧像一把抗拒着钥匙的锁

他们深深的呻吟在地板上匍匐前进

像一只野兽拖着一个陷阱

他的允诺像外科医生的口罩

她的允诺掀开了他的头盖骨

然后制成一枚胸针

他的誓言抽出了她的肌腱

他为她展示怎样编一个爱结

在她背部秘密的纹身上

他们的尖叫被砌进墙里

他们的头坠入睡眠摔成两半

像熟透蒂落的西瓜，但爱没有停止

在他们彼此嵌合的睡梦中他们互换手臂和腿

在梦中他们成为彼此头脑的房东

早晨起来（她）（他）们戴上彼此的脸庞

原文：

Lovesong by Ted Hughes

He loved her and she loved him
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and Sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains

Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His word were occupying armies
Her laughs were an assasin's attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway
Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon's gag
Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it
His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot
At the back of her secret drawer
Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop

In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostage

In the morning they wore each other's face

特德·修斯是二十世纪一位被低估的诗人，他的诗几乎完全掩盖他与西尔维娅·普拉斯的情感纠葛的喧嚣声下，对于一个诗人来说，最大的悲哀莫过于此。这首爱情诗有着他一贯的“暴力风格”，狂野的激情因为被压缩在整饬的诗行中读起来会使人产生某种微微抽搐的幻觉。性爱通过一系列暴力和战争意象被表现的惊心动魄。这首诗像推土机一样，任何阻挡在其路上的东西都会被碾压的粉碎。