Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,

时光穿梭，飞快地回到从前，

Make me a child again, just for to-night!

今晚星光，我变成可爱孩子，

Mother, come back from the echoless shore,

妈妈，从无法应答的彼岸归来，

Take me again to your heart as of yore;

一如往昔，将我搂抱入怀。

Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,

轻轻地， 她吻着我的前额皱纹，

Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;

随后抚平，我鬓角上初现白发，

Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;—

满心怜爱，默默地看我安睡——

Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!

妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!

时光穿梭，追溯往昔岁月，

I am so weary of toil and of tears;

难以应对， 生活困厄操劳，

Toil without recompense, tears all in vain;

呕心沥血，汗水无法兑现，

Take them, and give me my childhood again!

不再忧伤，今晚我又回到童年！

I have grown weary of dust and decay,—

滚滚红尘，行尸走肉的皮囊，

Weary of flinging my soul wealth away;

迷惘不安，如何失去信念？

Weary of sowing for others to reap;—

世事喧嚣，充满尔虞我诈，

Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!

妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！

Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,

我早已，厌倦世俗的虚伪卑鄙，

Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you!

哦，妈妈，我从心底呼唤你！

Many a summer the grass has grown green,

夏夜星落，那片滴翠的草地，

Blossomed and faded, our faces between:

母女笑容，跌落在花开花落之间，

Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,

难以抑制，我多年的思念苦楚，

Long I to-night for your presence again.

哦，妈妈，渴望你今晚出现。

Come from the silence so long and so deep;—

回来吧，你在寂寞黑暗消失很久，

Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!

妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！