遣悲懷(其三) 元稹

遣悲懷(其三)   元稹 (779-831)
閑坐悲君亦自悲，百年多是幾多時。
鄧攸無子尋知命，潘岳悼亡猶費詞。
同穴窅冥何所望，他生緣會更難期。
惟將終夜常開眼，報答平生未展眉。

Airing My Pent Up Grief (Poem No. 3)    

Yuan Zhen (779-831)

Griefing for you and also for myself I sit here idle,

Even if we could live for a hundred years it is only ephemeral let alone eternal,
Void of progency Deng You deplored over his fortune wheel,
Concocting a requiem for his deceased wife Pan Yue had his brains cudgelled,
Our life wish of being buried in the same grave is a wish too unrealistically fanciful,
Wishing to be married again as the same couple in another life is simply whimsical.
I could only sit with my eyes wide open to keep you vigil,
To requite you for bearing with me a life of bales.

 

 

西塞山懷古 劉禹錫

西塞山懷古        劉禹錫 (772-842)
王浚樓船下益州，金陵王氣黯然收。
千尋鐵鎖沉江底，一片降幡出石頭。
人世幾回傷往事，山形依舊枕寒流。
從今四海為家日，故壘蕭蕭蘆荻秋。

Reminiscence Over Mt Xisai         Liu Yuxi (772-842)

When Wang Jun reached Yizhou in his grand ship of battle,

Presently the flamboyant regal grandeur of Jinling has gloomily turned dreary pale,
The eight thousand foot long iron chain barricade was wrecked and sunk and offered no more protective barricado,
From the Stone City flags of surrender were hurled and unfurled,
How many times in our life do we come across these saddening scenarios,
Across the chilly river the mountain is still here to straddle,
Today all quarters of the empire are united as a family on the whole,
Amidst the shivering and rattling reeds still stand the old army citadels.

 

 

登柳州城樓寄漳汀封連四州刺史 柳宗元

登柳州城樓寄漳汀封連四州刺史       柳宗元 (773-818)
城上高樓接大荒，海天愁思正茫茫。
驚風亂颭芙蓉水。密雨斜侵薜荔墻。
嶺樹重遮千裏目，江流曲似九回腸。
共來百越紋身地，猶是音書滯一鄉。

To the Provincial Procurators of the Provinces of

Zhang, Ting, Feng and Lin While Mounting the

City Wall of Liuzhou             Liu Zongyuan (773-818)

View on the tall tower on the city wall reaches out to the widespread wilds,

Brooding over the seas and the heavens I am plunged into an abysmal loss of dismals,
Gusty wind bringing rain beats bitterly on the riverside lotus hurling up rough billows,
A deluge of rain beats askew on the climbing fig strewn wall,
Dense foliage over the mountains block my prospect over thousands of miles,
Rivers twist anfratuously like intestinal canals,,
Together we are all cashiered to the land of the tattooed people of the Yue tribes in the southmost,
Hereafter our letters will certainly be stalled. 

晚次鄂州 盧綸

晚次鄂州      盧綸 (748-800)
雲開遠見漢陽城，猶是孤帆一日程。
估客晝眠知浪靜，舟人夜語覺潮生。
三湘愁鬢逢秋色，萬里歸心對月明。
舊業已隨征戰盡，更堪江上鼓鼙聲。

Putting Up at Ezhou at Night         Lu Lun (748-800)

When clouds disperse one can see from afar the Hanyang city wall,

But to reach there it takes my solitary boat one more day of sail,
Travelling tradesmen sleep in their boat in day time leaving the environs tranquil,
Amidst boatsmen palavers at night one feels the tide swells,
Stranded in the land of the three Xiang areas my temples turn autumnal frosty with dismals,
Under the bright moon I am nostalgic for my homeland still thousands of miles off,
In the expeditionary campaigns I’ve lost all my chattels,
But I still have to put up with sound of the war drums over the river that renders me unsettled.

 

春思 皇甫冉

春思     皇甫冉 (714-767)
鶯啼燕語報新年，馬邑龍堆路幾千。
家住層城臨漢苑，心隨明月到胡天。
機中錦字論長恨，樓上花枝笑獨眠。
為問元戎竇車騎，何時返旆勒燕然。

Spring Longings        Huangfu Ran (714-767)

Twittering orioles and swallows herald New Year’s arrival,,

To Ma Yi and Long Dui on the borders there are still a few thousand miles,
In the Storied City near the Imperial Gardens I dwell,
Following the bright moon to the barbarian purlieu my heart travels,
The characters knitted in the brocade explicate a lonely boudoir’s lasting sorrows,
My sleeping in solitude is chaffed even by the overhanging blows,
Oh, General Dou, great marshal,
When will you return triumphant with your great feat phenomenal.

 

 

贈闕下裴舍人 錢起

贈闕下裴舍人   錢起 (710-782)
二月黃鸝飛上林，春城紫禁曉陰陰。
長樂鐘聲花外盡，龍池柳色雨中深。
陽和不散窮途恨，霄漢常懸捧日心。
獻賦十年猶未遇，羞將白髮對華簪。

To Imperial Palace Steward Pei             Qian Qi (710-782)

In the second month of the year into the imperial gardens flock orioles,

Mornings in the Forbidden Palace look gloomily gloomily umbral,
Beyond the flowers fade out the Changle Palace bell tolls,
Intensely hued is the tint of the Dragon Pool willows amidst the vernal mizzles,
Even the vernal geniality cannot expunge my wretched destitute bile,
I’ve always been looking up to His Great Majesty with a loyal heart leal,
Having presented to Him for ten years my dedicated poetic prose but still not met with His gracious approval,
How shameful this hoar hair man I am in front of you such an exulted official.

 

黃台瓜辭 李賢

黃台瓜辭            李賢(654-684)
種瓜黃台下，瓜熟子離離。
一摘使瓜好，再摘使瓜稀。
三摘猶自可，摘絕抱蔓歸。

The Yellow Terrace Cucumbers   
Li Xian, Prince Zhang Huai of Tang (654-684)  
Beneath the Yellow Terrace one grows cucumbers,
Coming of age they teem with a crop bumper,
Picking one off the whole cluster remains prosper,
Picking one more will make the bunch meager,
Another picking the whole crop may still be secure,
Picking all will leave only a heap of creepers.

 

自夏口至鸚鵡洲夕望岳陽寄源中丞 劉長卿

自夏口至鸚鵡洲夕望岳陽寄源中丞           劉長卿 (726-786)
汀洲無浪復無煙，楚客相思益渺然。
漢口夕陽斜渡鳥，洞庭秋水遠連天。
孤城背嶺寒吹角，獨樹臨江夜泊船。
賈誼上書憂漢室，長沙謫去古今憐。

To Procurator General Yuan While Espying at Yueyang Amidst the Dusk Flush When I Go from Xiakou to the

Parrot Ait                      Liu Changqing (726-786)

Over the Jing River Ait there are neither mists nor billows,

Thinking of the Chu poet Qu Yuan I am plunged at an abysmal loss,
Amidst the flush of the setting sun in Hankou birds fly off,
Spreading up to join the heavens are the Lake Dongting autumnal waters,
From the desolate city wall reclining on the mountain come the military bugles amidst the chills,
On the solitary tree by the river I anchor my boat at nightfall,
To Chngsha Jia Yi was demoted for his admonishing memorial,
This tragedy had been deplored through the ages from of old.

 

 

同題仙遊觀 韓翃

同題仙遊觀     韓翃 (736-790)
仙臺初見五城樓，風物凄凄宿雨收。
山色遙連秦樹晚，砧聲近報漢宮秋。
疏松影落空壇靜，細草香閑小洞幽。
何用別尋方外去，人間亦自有丹邱。

The Supernal Deigning Temple         Han Yi (736-790)

The Five City Wall Tower is the first to appeal to me as I mount this celestial temple,

The view over here is gloomily gloomily grim and doleful as the overnight rain lulls,
The dusk hues of the mountains of the land of Qin hither remotely sprawls,
Laundry hustle and bustle from the nearby Han Palaces announce autumn’s arrival,
Shadows of the scanty pines print on the placid empty pool,
In spring wisps of vernal scent of new grasses will infuse the small tranquil grotto,
Why look for fairyland beyond the Taoist purlieu,
In the human world fairyland always lies perdu.

長沙過賈誼宅 劉長卿

長沙過賈誼宅     劉長卿 (726-786)
三年謫宦此棲遲，萬古惟留楚客悲。
秋草獨尋人去後，寒林空見日斜時。
漢文有道恩猶薄，湘水無情吊豈知。
寂寂江山搖落處，憐君何事到天涯。

Passing Jia Yi’s Abode at Changsha       

Liu Changqing (726-786)

For three years here you’d been stranded after being demoted,

Passing down from ages to ages are your Chu poet sorrows,
Solitarily I seek the grasses that wilt in the fall,
I could vainly see the sun flushing over the chilly woods only when I recoil,
Even the gracious Emperor Wen of Han’s grace for you was a bit too gracile,
After being cashiered you had paid homage to the patriotic poet by the River Huai without the poet’s know,
Amidst the desolation of these waters and hills,
I just wonder for what grave reasons to end of world you should have been exiled.

 

 

 

江州重別薛六柳八二員外 劉長卿

江州重別薛六柳八二員外      劉長卿(726-786)
生涯豈料承優詔，世事空知學醉歌。
江上月明胡雁過，淮南木落楚山多。
寄身且喜滄洲近，顧影無如白髮何。
今日龍鐘人共老，愧君猶遣慎風波。

A Second Farewell to Councilors Xue and Liu

at Jiangzhou                 Liu Changqing (726-786)

All my jinxed life I’ve never expected to receive a summon of grace from the Emperor to put me on His behoof,

Amidst the vicissitudes of life I could only sing with abandon and get drunk taking after the sages of old,
Over the moon lit river wild geese from the land of the barbarians fly off,
To the south of the River Huai woods in the mountains of Chu shed and fall,
By Cangzhou I lay up in self exile,
In the mirror I can’t help my hair turning grizzle,
We are becoming decrepit seniles,
How ashamed I am I still need your advice to make scruples with mischances to bolt.

登金陵鳳凰臺 李白

登金陵鳳凰臺    李白(701- 762)
鳳凰臺上鳳凰游，鳳去臺空江自流。
吳宮花草埋幽徑，晉代衣冠成古丘。
三山半落青天外，二水中分白鷺洲。
總為浮雲能蔽日，長安不見使人愁。

Mounting the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling   

Li Bai (701- 762)

On this Phoenix Terrace phoenixes used to call,

Phoenixes now come no more leaving the river itself inanely rolls,
Flowers and grasses in the Wu palaces lie perdu in the tranquil trails,
Under the ancient Jin tombs lay the Dynasty’s exalted officials,
Half of the Tripeak Mountain out into the azure ether straddles,
Right amid the bisecting River Qin Huai the White Heron Ait lolls,
Clouds have the sun shrouded,
Unable to see Chang’an up here frets one with dismals.

 

 

送李少府貶峽中王少府貶長沙 高適

送李少府貶峽中王少府貶長沙   高適 (700-765)
嗟君此別意如何，駐馬銜杯問謫居。
巫峽啼猿數行淚，衡陽歸雁幾封書。
青楓江上秋帆遠，白帝城邊古木疏。
聖代即今多雨露，暫時分手莫躊躇。

Seeing Off Assistant Governor Li Relegated to Shu and Assistant Governor Wang Relegated to Changsha        
Gao Shi (700-765)

Seeing you gentlemen off while you are probably fretting with dismals,

Do stall your horse and tell me over the wine about your relegation abode,
The ape cries over the Wu Gorge only bring my tears to pour,      
How many letters from home will the returning wild geese in Hanyang bring in holds,
The wayfaring boats on the Green Maple River will be far far remote,
The ancient trees behind the Baidi City will wilt and fall,
His sage Majesty’s grace is magnanimous and prodical,
I am sure you will soon be recalled.

九日登望仙臺呈劉明府 崔曙

九日登望仙臺呈劉明府    崔曙 (唐)
漢文皇帝有高臺，此日登臨曙色開。
三晉雲山皆北向，二陵風雨自東來。
關門令尹誰能識，河上仙翁去不回。
且欲近尋彭澤宰，陶然共醉菊花杯。

Mounting the Supernal Espying Terrace on the Nineth Day with This Poem Presented to Liu Mingfu       Cui Shu (Tang poet)

This high terrace Emperor Wen of Han had assembled,

Amidst bright twilight today up here I scramble,
North facing are the clouds and mountains over the Three Jin perlieus,
Over the Two Imperial Tombs winds and rains from the east hurl,
Whosoever could be like Wan Xi the Guan Men official who had the chance to be taught by Master Laozi in times of old,
Or the Supernal of the River who never recoiled.
It’d be ideal to run across the more recent Tao the Pengze official,
Together with him over the chrysanthemums we’ll hit the booze.

 

奉和聖制從蓬萊向興慶閣道中留春雨中春望之作應制 王維

奉和聖制從蓬萊向興慶閣道中留春雨中春望之作應制  

王維  (701-761)
渭水自縈秦塞曲，黃山舊繞漢宮斜。
鑾輿迥出千門柳，閣道回看上苑花。
雲裏帝城雙鳳闕，雨中春樹萬人家。
為乘陽氣行時令，不是宸遊玩物華。

A Poem Written On His Imperial Order to Echo His While Escorting Him From Penglai Hall to Xingqing Hall and

Caught in the Spring Rain                   Wang Wei (701-761)

Around the Qin borders the Huai River encircles,

Askew to the Han palaces the Yellow Mountain straddles,
From myriad palace doors emerges the Imperial Carriage through thousands and thousands of fluttering willows,
Over the boulevard His Majesty can savour the flowers in the gardens imperial,
The phoenixes of the imperial palaces can even be seen amidst the clouds,
The flourishing foliage amidst the vernal rains can be seen in the myriad households,
His Majesty’s outing is to chime in the Yang forces vernal,
He is not looking for gaieties nor gambol.

 

 

酬郭給事 王維

酬郭給事    王維  (701-761)
洞門高閣靄餘暉，桃李陰陰柳絮飛。
禁裏疏鐘官舍晚，省中啼鳥吏人稀。
晨搖玉佩趨金殿，夕奉天書拜瑣闈。
強欲從君無那老，將因臥病解朝衣。

To Kuo the Chancellery Official         

Wang Wei (701-761)

Rising high and reaching deep while basking in His Majesty’s gracious glow is the chancellery office portal,

Willow down flitters amidst peaches and pears umbrageous shadows,
Bell tolls from the forbidden palaces fade out as dusk falls,
Officials serving in the chancellery become scarce amidst noisy bird warbles,
In the twilight you’ll go to the court with your jade pendant from your waist dangles,
You’ll be kneeling to receive His Majesty’s edicts as dusk falls,
How much I’d like to take up official devoirs after you to follow,
But in my ailing bed I would be decrepitly trammeled.