登岳陽樓 杜甫

登岳陽樓　　 杜甫(712-770)

昔聞洞庭水，今上岳陽樓。
吳楚東南坼，乾坤日夜浮。
親朋無一字，老病有孤舟。
戎馬關山北，憑軒涕泗流。

On Yue Yang Tower      Du Fu(712-770)

I have long heard of the Lake Dong Ting’s waters,

Today I mount the Yue Yang Tower,

To the east and south of the lake the lands of Wu and Chu are severed,
Day and night heaven and earth floats on its vivifying water glimmers,
From family and friends I have not a single letter,
Only a solitary boat to accompany this ailing gaffer,
War horses run rampant north of the frontiers,
Leaning on the balustrade I can’t hold back my running tears.

奉濟驛重送嚴公四韻 杜甫

奉濟驛重送嚴公四韻      杜甫 (712-770)

遠送從此別，青山空復情。
幾時杯重把？昨夜月同行。
列郡謳歌惜，三朝出入榮。
江村獨歸處，寂寞養殘生。

A second farewell to Duke Yan at the Fengji post station     

Du Fu (712-770)

My farewell to you has come to the end of its way,

The green hills can no longer have my emotions swayed,
When can we drink again like the old days?
With cup in hand, walk together once more like last night in the moon rays?
Adjourning provinces chant panegyrics beseeching you to stay,
Prominence in three courts and field evinced how highly you have been graced,
Now I must return alone to my river village,
And live out this decrepit desolate life in my old age.

別房太尉墓 杜甫

別房太尉墓        杜甫(712-770)

他鄉復行役，駐馬別孤墳。

近淚無乾土，低空有斷雲。
對碁陪謝傅，把劍覓徐君。
唯見林花落，鶯啼送客聞。

Leave-taking at the Grave of Grand Marshal Fang        
Du Fu (712-770)

Already far from home, I am once again setting off on my way,

I stop my horse to farewell a lone grave,

The earth is all wet for tears shed here in recent days,
In the sky clouds hang low in broken waves;
I once had the honour of sitting with the Grand Tutor Xie at a chess game played,
Now with sword in hand I come to seek the Master Xu,
But I only behold blossoms falling all over the place,
And an oriole singing to send me away.

宿府 杜甫

宿府        杜甫 (712-770)

清秋幕府井梧寒，獨宿江城蠟炬殘。

永夜角聲悲自語，中天月色好誰看？

風塵荏苒音書絕，關塞蕭條行路難。
己忍伶俜十年事，強移棲息一枝安。

A Night at the Governor’s Headquarters         Du Fu (712-770)

The wutong trees beside the well in the Governor’s headquarters courtyard look chilly in the clear autumnal air,
Staying alone in the river city for the night I watch the candle burning out with wax tears,
Mournful bugles wail throughout the night with only themselves to care,
Brightly shines the lovely moon in mid-sky with none to admire,
Persistent unrests have cut off all letters,
Travelling through the destitute frontiers is greatly hampered,
For ten long years these tribulations I have endured,
Perforce, I've moved to roost on this single peaceful bough for the hour.

登樓 杜甫

登樓      杜甫(712-770)

 

花近高樓傷客心，萬方多難此登臨。
錦江春色來天地，玉壘浮雲變古今。
北極朝廷終不改，西山寇盜莫相侵。
可憐後主還祠廟，日暮聊為梁父吟。

 Mounting a Tower             Du Fu (712-770)

Flowers near the high tower rankle the heart of the visitor

Who comes up here to have a view of the scene when turmoil upheaves the whole Empire,
The Brocade River brings the whole universe before his eyes with its full vernal colours,
Cloudscape over the Marble Rampart Mountain seems to display the ages in their ever-changing figures,
The destiny of the Imperial Court in the North ultimately remains unaltered,
The buccaneers from the West Mountain must stop intruding our frontiers,
Even the effete Second Ruler has his own shrine of honour,
I could only inanely sing a song of Liangfu in the vesper.

月夜憶舍弟 杜甫

月夜憶舍弟      杜甫(712-770)

戍鼓斷人行，秋邊一雁聲。
露從今夜白，月是故鄉明。
有弟皆分散，無家問死生。
寄書長不達，況乃未休兵。

Missing my brothers on a moonlit night       Du Fu (712-770)

The picket war-drums scare away travelers,
The cry of a solitary wild goose proclaims the arrival of autumn to the frontiers,
From tonight onwards white dew will take over as the seasonal marker,
It is the same moon that shines on my homeland, but there it did look brighter,
To different places my brothers are all scattered,
I have no home to tell me if still alive they are,
They seem never to have received my letters,
It will be even worse now that under a war we still have to labour.

 

旅夜書懷 杜甫

旅夜書懷        杜甫 (712-770)

細草微風岸，危檣獨夜舟。

星垂平野闊，月湧大江流。
名豈文章著，官應老病休。
飄飄何所似？天地一沙鷗。

Feelings While Travelling At Night           Du Fu(712-770)

The young grass by the river bank sways as a mild breeze sweeps over,

In solitude of the night my lone boat’s mast stands taunt and clear,
Over the vast level plain stars glimmer,
In the raving waters of the Great River the moon wavers;
Literary achievement begrudges me fame and honour,
Decrepit and ailing, I am a renounced courtier,
A forlorn outcast, to what can I be compared?
Between heaven and earth a seagull that soars.

詠懷古跡 (五) 杜甫

詠懷古跡 (五)      杜甫(712-770)

諸葛大名垂宇宙，宗臣遺像肅清高。

三分割據紆籌策，萬古雲霄一羽毛。
伯仲之間見伊呂，指揮若定失蕭曹。
運移漢祚終難復，志決身殲軍務勞。

Thoughts on an Ancient Site (5)       Du Fu (712-770)

Zhuge Liang’s great name resounds in the universe through all eternity,
The portrait of this great statesman keeps people in awe of his majestic sublimity,
The eventual tripartite division of the empire thwarted his grand strategy,
Yet he soars like a single feather high amidst the clouds through the ages,
Yi Yin and Lu Shang could only be counted as his peers,
Xiao He and Cao Shen were nothing compared to his military expertise,
But the house of Han had lost the favour of Providence,
Yet for committed pledges, he resolutely let himself be perished amid his strenuous military endeavors.

詠懷古跡 (三) 杜甫

詠懷古跡 (三)      杜甫 (712-770)

群山萬壑赴荊門 ，生長明妃尚有村 。
一去紫臺連朔漠 ，獨留青塚向黃昏 。
畫圖省識春風面 ？環珮空歸月夜魂 。
千載琵琶作胡語 ，分明怨恨曲中論 。

Thoughts on an Ancient Site (3)         Du Fu(712-770)
I’ve come to the gate of Jing across numerous mountains and vales,
Here one can still find the village where Ming Fei was born and raised,
Once she left the crimson palace boundless desert was what she only faced,
Now just her green grave idles solitarily amidst the evening haze;
Portraits spitefully distorted her lovely vernal breeze-like face and plunged her into her sorrowful fate,
On moonlit nights her void soul returns amidst the tinkling of girdle-jades,
For a thousand years the pi-pa has spoken in the tongue of the barbarian race,
Obviously deploring in the music for what she forever wails.

過零丁洋 文天祥

過零丁洋      文天祥 (1236-1283)   辛苦遭逢起一經，干戈寥落四周星。 山河破碎風飄絮，身世浮沉雨打萍。 惶恐灘頭說惶恐，零丁洋里嘆零丁。 人生自古誰無死？留取丹心照汗青。

 Crossing the Desperate Straits      Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283)

My strenuous life began as my knowledge of the classics in the imperial examinations was incompared,

For four years I’ve thrown in all I have for His Majesty’s rescue, but got only very few followers,
Our motherland now torn into pieces like catkin caught in the wind and flitters,
Drifting duckweed shuttering in bitter rain my fare,
I deplore being caught in the jitters on the Beach of Jitters,
And stranded in desperate straits the Desperate Straits over,
From of old who can live forever?
To uphold my loyal soul to shine through history I swear.

虞美人 蔣捷

虞美人    聽雨     蔣捷(宋)

少年聽雨歌樓上，紅燭昏羅帳。
壯年聽雨客舟中，江闊雲低斷雁叫西風。
而今聽雨僧廬下，鬢已星星也。
悲歡離合總無情，一任階前點滴到天明。

Yu Mei Ren   Listening to the rain     Jiang Jie (Song Poet)

As a youngster I listened to the rain in song parlours,

Captivated beside crimson candles and layers of upholsters;
As a grown up man I listened to the rain as a wayfarer,
In a boat with dark clouds overhanging on a broad river,
While the west wind brought with it the mournful cries of a wild goose loner;
Now I listen to the rain the eaves of a monkery under,
My temple hair already hoarily simmers,
Ineluctably bruising are all joys and sorrows, reunions and sunders,
I just let the rain drip throughout the night on the steps of my door.

春望 杜甫

春望      杜甫(712-770

 

國破山河在，城春草木深。

感時花濺淚，恨別鳥驚心。
烽火連三月，家書抵萬金。
白頭搔更短，渾欲不勝簪。

Spring Prospects            Du Fu (712-770)

The State may fall but mountains and rivers remain safely installed,
Spring brings flush grasses and trees inside the city wall,
For the turbulent times even flowers let their tears fall,
And birds seem to be startled by sundering sores,
For three months beacon fires have been burning for the war,
A letter from home is worth my fortune all,
My hoar hair gets thinner everyday from my anxious claws,
So thin I can hardly use a hairpin anymore.

滿庭芳 秦觀

滿庭芳     秦觀(1049-1100)

山抹微雲，天連衰草，畫角聲斷譙門。
暫停征棹，聊共引離樽。
多少蓬萊舊事，空回首，煙靄紛紛。
斜陽外，寒鴉萬點，流水繞孤村。
銷魂，當此際，香囊暗解，羅帶輕分。
謾贏得青樓，薄倖名存。
此去何時見也? 襟袖上，空惹啼痕。
傷情處，高城望斷，燈火已黃昏。

Man Ting Fang       Qin Guan (1049-1100)

Across the mountain a wisp of cloud brushes,

The sky, so low, comes down to join the boundless spread of dead grasses,
Intermittently from sentry towers come painted bugle blasts,
For the moment my boat stalls,
This bitter cup of sunder we toss,
Let the enchanting story of Penglai vanish like mists,
Leaving us just sad reminiscences;
Beyond the setting sun fly thousands of winter crows,
Around a lone village a stream flows;
How ravishing! There my captivated soul goes!
Gently she unties the sash of her sachet and gives it to me as a token,
All these years I flung around in the brothels,
A philanderer, the epithet I stole,
Here we part, will we ever again fall across?
Tears vainly fall on our sleeves and clothes,
Seeing the high city wall vanish from my sight is what pains me most,
Midst the twilight only lamplights see me off with a bruised soul.

 

 

 

 

 

清明 杜牧

清明      杜牧(803-852)

清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。
借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花村。

Ching Ming             Du Mu(803-852)

Ching Ming is a season that it keeps drizzling throughout the day,
Bruised travelers seem to lose their souls on the way,
I’d like to find a wine shop for a resting place,
A cowherd points to a village midst the apricot trees far off the way.

破陣子 辛棄疾

破陣子 為陳同甫賦壯詞以寄之     辛棄疾(1140-1207)

醉裏挑燈看劍，夢回吹角連營。

八百里分麾下炙，五十弦翻塞外聲，沙場秋點兵。
馬作的盧飛快，弓如霹靂弦驚。
了卻君王天下事，贏得生前身後名。可憐白髮生。

Po Zhen Zi  Boosting Chen Tongfu with this valorous poem       

Xin Qiji (1140-1207)

Sloshed, I contemplate my sword under the lamp,

Awakened, bugles still ring through the camps,
Recalling a scene of soldiers drinking and savoring roast cows in their widespread tents,
With military music played out by various instruments they are entranced;
In the autumnal cool a grand parade advances,
Warriors on coursers fleet by, with bows fully drawn, hotly after their enemies’ end,
On the twangs of the bows into dismay the enemies sank,
I vow to restore His Majesty to sovereignty with my morale greatly enhanced,
Earning myself renown and success that never end,
Deplorably old I’ll be before any achievement attained.