譯文：何功杰/飛白（根據兩者譯文，略作調整）
It little profits that an idle king, | 這太無謂——當一個閑散的君主
By this still hearth, among these barren crags, | 安居家中，在這個嶙峋的島國．
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole | 我與年老的妻子相匹，頒布著
Unequal laws unto a savage race, | 不公的法律，治理野蠻的種族，
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. | 他們吃、睡、收藏，而不理解我。
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink | 我不能停歇我的跋涉：我決心
Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd | 飲盡生命之杯。我一生都在
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those | 體驗巨大的痛苦、巨大的歡樂，
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when | 有時與愛我的狄伴一起，有時卻
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades | 獨自一個；不論在岸上或海上，
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; | 當帶來雨季的畢宿星團催動，我已經變成這樣一個名字
For always roaming with a hungry heart | 由于我如饑似渴地漂泊不止，
Much have I seen and known; cities of men | 我已見識了許多民族的城
And manners, climates, councils, governments, | 及其風氣、習俗、樞密院、政府，
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; | 而我在他們之中最負盛名；
And drunk delight of battle with my peers, | 我和同僚們共飲戰斗的歡欣，
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy, | 在遙遠而多風的特洛亞戰場，
I am a part of all that I have met; | 我自己是我全部經歷的一部分；
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' | 而全部經驗，也只是一座拱門，
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades | 尚未游歷的世界在門外閃光，
For ever and for ever when I move. | 而隨著我一步一步的前進，它的邊界也不斷向后退讓。
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, | 最單調最沉悶的是停留，是終止，
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! | 是蒙塵生銹而不在使用中發亮！
As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life | 難道說呼吸就能算是生活？
Were all too little, and of one to me | 幾次生命堆起來尚嫌太少，
Little remains: but every hour is saved | 何況我唯一的生命已余年無多。
From that eternal silence, something more, | 唯有從永恒的沉寂之中搶救
A bringer of new things; and vile it were | 每個小時，讓每個小時帶來一些新東西，帶來一些新事物；
For some three suns to store and hoard myself, | 三年來我可恥地把自己封存和儲藏起來，
And this gray spirit yearning in desire | 可這班白的心靈卻迫切地向往
To follow knowledge like a sinking star, | 去追隨知識，像那西沉的星星，
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. | 到那人類思想極限以外的地方。
This is my son, mine own Telemachus, | 這是我的兒子忒勒瑪科斯，
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle— | 我給他留下我的島國和王杖，
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil | 他是我所愛的，他有膽有識，
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild | 能勝任這一工作；謹慎耐心地
A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees | 教化粗野的民族，用溫和的步驟
Subdue them to the useful and the good. | 馴化他們，使他們善良而有用。
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere | 他是無可指責的，
Of common duties, decent not to fail | 在我離去后他會擔起重任，
In offices of tenderness, and pay | 處理好那些需要謹慎應付的事務，
Meet adoration to my household gods, | 并對我家的佑護神表示崇敬。
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. | 他和我，將各做各的工作
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: | 海港就在那邊，船兒已經揚帆，
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, | 大海沉沉，朦朧一片。我的水手們——
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me— | 與我同辛勞、同工作、同思想的人，
That ever with a frolic welcome took | 他們總是高高興興去迎接
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed | 雷電和陽光，
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old; | 并用自由的心與頭顱來抗爭，——
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; | 你們和我都已老了，但老年
Death closes all: but something ere the end, | 仍有老年的榮譽、老年的辛勞；
Some work of noble note, may yet be done, | 死亡終結一切，但在終點前
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. | 我們還能做一番崇高的事業，使我們配稱為與神斗爭的人。
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: | 礁石上的燈標開始閃光了：
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep | 長晝將盡，月亮緩緩攀登，
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, | 大海用無數音響在周圍呻喚。來呀，朋友們，探尋更新的世界
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. | 現在尚不是為時過晚。
Push off, and sitting well in order smite | 開船吧！坐成排，劃破這喧嘩的海浪，
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds | 我決心駛向
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths | 太陽沉沒的彼方，超越
Of all the western stars, until I die. | 西方星斗的浴場，至死方止。
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: | 也許深淵會把我們吞噬，
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, | 也許我們將到達瓊島樂土，
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. | 與老朋友阿喀琉斯會晤。
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' | 盡管已達到的多，未知的也多啊，
We are not now that strength which in old days | 雖然我們的力量已不如當初，
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; | 已遠非昔日移天動地的雄姿，
One equal temper of heroic hearts, | 但我們仍是我們，英雄的心
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will | 盡管被時間消磨，被命運削弱，
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. | 奮斗、探索、尋求，而不屈服
