詠懷古跡(其一) 杜甫

詠懷古跡(其一)      杜甫 (712-770)
支離東北風塵際，飄泊西南天地間。
三峽樓台淹日月，五溪衣服共雲山。
羯胡事主終無賴，詞客哀時且未還。
庾信平生最蕭瑟，暮年詩賦動江關。

Thoughts on an Ancient Site (Poem No.1)     
Du Fu (712-770)

Broken and scattered is the northeast in these times of turmoil,

Forlornly I am drifting amid the southwest end of the world,

Pavilions and towers of the Three Gorges are shrouded in the sun’s and moon’s glow,

The barbarians of the Five Streams have mountains and clouds portrayed on their clothes,

The succumbed Jie Huns are basically unreliable,

The barbs who mourn over the tumultuous times could not yet to their homeland recoil,

The poet Yu Xin’s life is glutted with sorrows,

Grief in the poems of his late years strikes a deep chord in people far and remote.