春夜喜雨 杜甫

春夜喜雨　　　杜甫(712-770)

好雨知時節，當春乃發生。

隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。
野徑雲俱黑，江船火獨明。
曉看紅濕處，花重錦官城。

Rain of delight in spring nights            Du Fu (712-770)

A good rain knows when the seasons ring, 

It comes right in spring;
Stealthily it comes at night with the gentle wind,
Silently it nourishes everything obligingly with no hint;
Over the wild trails dark clouds have set in,
Only in boats on the river are lights seen,
In the morning wet crimson patches everywhere are stealing the scene,
Alas, blossoms are busting out within the City rims.

 

 

 

 

春晴 王駕

春晴         王駕 (851 - ?)

雨前初見花間蕊，雨後全無葉底花；
蜂蝶紛紛過牆去，卻疑春色在鄰家。

A spring day when rain has cleared          Wang Jia (851 - ?)

Florets and buds caught my glimpse before the rain,
But after it amid the foliage none of these remains,
Bees and butterflies are busily flying over the wall to my neighbor’s precincts,
Maybe the vernal colours there have taken on a more sparkling swing.

送友人 李白

送友人　     李白(701 - 762)

青山橫北郭, 白水遶東城。
此地一為別, 孤蓬萬里征。
浮雲游子意, 落日故人情。
揮手自茲去, 蕭蕭班馬鳴。

Bidding a friend farewell                Li Bai (701 - 762)

To the north the green mountain straddles;

Round the city east the white water circles,
Here we bid farewell,
Like a piece of forlorn weed a thousand miles away you will travel;
The drifting clouds, a wayfarer’s idol.
Not even an old friend like me can keep you, nor the setting sun, on hold,
So I wave my hand and let you go,
Leaving the whinny of the parting horses in my ears to rattle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

江城子 密州出獵 蘇軾

 

江城子  密州出獵       蘇軾(1037 - 1101)

老夫聊發少年狂。左牽黃，右擎蒼。
錦帽貂裘，千騎卷平岡。
為報傾城隨太守，親射虎，看孫郎。
酒酣胸膽尚開張。鬢微霜，又何妨。
持節雲中，何日遣馮唐。
會挽雕弓如滿月，西北望，射天狼。

Jiang Cheng Zi   Go Hunting in Mizhou          Su Shi (1037 - 1101)

Taking a whim for mimicking the abandonment of a teenage young man,

This gaffer, with a yellow hound leashed in the left hand,
And a falcon perching on the right,
Leads a shoal of armed horsemen,
With brocade hat and fur coat donned,
A thousand gallopers sweep across the level highland;
Tell the whole city to follow their prefect to the hunting and attend
How he shoot tigers with his own hands,
As Sun Quan did in his time back then;
The many drinks I’ve taken have my courage and ambitions greatly enhanced,
My temples grizzle, but what does it prevent?
Wishing one day to bear the court tally to guard the frontiers like the senile Feng Tang,
Thus to the Imperial Court a great service I’d hand,
Let me draw my carved bow to its fullest bend,
Aim to the northwest and shoot the Sirius, the star guardian the invaders depend.

渭城曲 王維

渭城曲     王維 (701-761)

渭城朝雨浥輕塵，客舍青青柳色新。

勸君更進一杯酒，西出陽關無故人。

 

Song of Wei City           Wang Wei  (701-761)

Flying dust in Wei City is moistened by morning drizzles,
Around the little inn verdurous and fresh is the scenery set off by the green green willows,
Do have one more cup of wine before you go,
Once out of Yangguan to the west you’ll have no more old fellows.

春日 朱熹

春日      朱熹 (1130-1200)

勝日尋芳泗水濱，無邊光景一時新。

等閒識得東風面，萬紫千紅總是春。

A spring day         Zhu Xi (1130-1200)

On a bright spring day I gallivant along River Si savouring the vernal splendours,

The complexion of the boundless scenery has taken on fresh new colours,
Not anybody can tell what it’s like basking in the vernal zephyr,
Yet everyone can tell from the myriad flowers in all colours that spring is flushing in entire.

與朱山人 杜甫

與朱山人       杜甫(712-770)

錦里先生烏角巾，園收芋栗未全貧。

慣看賓客兒童喜，得食階除鳥雀馴。
秋水纔深四五尺，野航恰受兩三人。
白沙翠竹江村暮，相送柴門月色新。

To the recluse Zhu       Du Fu (712-770)

The native of Jinjiang wears a black headsquare,

He is not that poor as his farm yields crops of taros and chestnuts bumper,
Children like him as his presence to them is too familiar,
Even birds pecking on the steps are not in the least scared;
Only four to five feet deep is the autumnal river,
The little jetty boat is just enough for two or three to share,
White sand and verdurous bamboos by the village stream lie serene in the hazy vesper,
He walks his guest out of his wicket door to find the climbing moon glowing over.

 

 

 

閣夜 杜甫

閣夜        杜甫(712-770)

歲暮陰陽催短景，天涯霜雪霽寒宵。

五更鼓角聲悲壯，三峽星河影動搖。

野哭千家聞戰伐，夷歌幾處起漁樵。

臥龍躍馬終黃土，人事音書漫寂寥。

Night at West House        Du Fu (712-770)

Towards the end of the year the day seems shorter as the sun and moon hurry up their shuttle,

At world’s end, the chilly night clears up as frost and snow have finally settled,

At five in the morning, drums and bugles sound valorously sad, leaving one unsettled,
Over the Three Gorges, the Milky Way trembles and twinkles,
In the countryside thousands of households weep as they hear once more of upheavals,
Foreign songs can be heard here and there sung by fishermen and wood-cutters in their toil,
Sleeping Dragon and Leaping Horse had paid their debt to history in the soil,
With no news from family and friends I vex disconsolately in withdrawal.

清平樂 張炎

清平樂              張炎(1248-1314)

採芳人杳，頓覺遊情少。

客裡看春多草草，總被詩愁分了。
去年燕子天涯，今年燕子誰家？
三月休聽夜雨，如今不是催花。

Qing Ping Le            Zhang Yan (1248-1314)

Flower-pickers have dispersed,

My mood for sight-seeing is hashed,
A sojourner’s viewing of the spring scenery can only be hasty,
My mind has always been taken up by poetic muse;
To world’s end last year’s swallows dismissed,
On whose houses will this year’s lie close?
Listen not to the night rains the third month amidst,
They can no longer heave flowers to flourish.

 

 

天淨沙 秋思 馬致遠

天淨沙  秋思      馬致遠  (1250-1321)

枯籐老樹昏鴉，

小橋流水人家，
古道西風瘦馬。
夕陽西下，
斷腸人在天涯。

Tian Jing Sha  Autumnal muse      Ma Zhiyuan (1250-1321)

Perching on an old tree entwined by wilted rattans are evening crows,

A small bridge flies over running water amidst a few households,
A lean horse trots slowly in the west wind along an ancient road,
To the west the sun goes,
Still struggling along at world’s end is a loner with a bruised soul.

虞美人 蘇軾

虞美人       蘇軾(1037 - 1101)

持杯遙勸天邊月。

願月圓無缺。

持杯復更勸花枝。

且願花枝長在、莫離披。

持杯月下花前醉。  

休問榮枯事。

此歡能有幾人知。

對酒逢花不飲、待何時。

 

 Yu Mei Ren           Su Shi (1037 - 1101)

With a cup of wine, I drink to the moon in the welkin afar from where I stand,   Oh Moon, I wish you could stay fully waxed and never wane,   With the wine I also drink to the flowers on their stems,   I wish you could stay in full bloom all the way and never faint;   Getting drunk savouring the flowers under the moon with a cup of wine in hand,   Confound it! All successes and mischances,   Few knows what great glee this lands,   If you don’t drink to the blooming flowers now as you can,   Then, when?

漫興九首（其七） 杜甫

漫興九首（其七）      杜甫(712-770)

糝徑楊花鋪白氈，點溪荷葉叠青錢。
筍根稚子無人見，沙上鳧雛傍母眠。

In insouciance (No. 7)        Dufu (712-770)

Scattered willow down spreads out on the path like a white carpet unfolded,
Overlapping lotus leaves dot out on the stream like coin rows,
New bamboo shoots under the ground are still too young to show,
On the beach, ducklings sleep in their mothers’ hold.

 

 

 

漫興九首（其五） 杜甫

漫興九首（其五）      杜甫(712-770)

腸斷春江欲盡頭，杖藜徐步立芳洲。
顛狂柳絮隨風去，輕薄桃花逐水流。

In insouciance (No. 5)             Dufu (712-770)

How bruising it is as spring relinquishes its reign,

In shallow waters I saunter with a cane and savour the scenery from where I stand,
Raving willow down engages the breeze in a delirious dance,
Ravishing delicate peach blossoms drift with the water to their end.

夜上受降城聞笛 李益

夜上受降城聞笛      李益 (748-827)

回樂峰前沙似雪，受降城外月如霜。

不知何處吹蘆管，一夜征人盡望鄉。

Hearing flutes on Shouxiang Citywall at night      Li Yi (748-827)

The sands in front of Mt Huile look like snow,

The moon beyond the Shouxiang City feels frosty and cold,
The sounds of reed flutes come from nowhere,
Unsettling  all through the night the soldiers’ nostalgic souls.

蝶戀花 晏殊

蝶戀花         晏殊 (991-1055)

檻菊愁煙蘭泣露，羅幕輕寒，燕子雙飛去。

明月不諳離恨苦，斜光到曉穿朱戶。
昨夜西風凋碧樹，獨上高樓，望盡天涯路。
欲寄彩箋兼尺素，山長水闊知何處。

Die Lian Hua                Yan Shu (991-1055)

Within the fences chrysanthemums shrouded in gloom vapour,

Dew drops drip from petals of orchids like tears,
Light chills silently seize my upholsters,
Away swallows have flown in pairs;
The bright moon understands not the sorrow of sunder,
Casting through the vermillion casements slanting lights till dawn appears,
Last night the bitter west winds had the verdant trees withered,
Alone I mount the high tower,
Straining to look to the farmost I try to reach the end of the world’s sphere,
To you a billet-doux I wish to deliver,
But where in this boundless world do you fare?