秋詞二首(其二) 劉禹錫

秋詞二首(其二)     劉禹錫 (772-842)
山明水凈夜來霜， 數樹深紅出淺黃。
試上高樓清入骨， 豈如春色嗾人狂。

An Autumnal Verse (Poem No.2)       Liu Yuxi (772-842)

Mountains stand vividly salient and waters lie hyaline despite night frost extensively swills,
Red trees strut out against the rusticity befitting the seasonal feel,
On the high towers cut you to the quick will be the snapping chills,
But it spares you the enthralling ravishing vernal thrills.

 

秋詞二首(其一) 劉禹錫

秋詞二首(其一)    劉禹錫 (772-842)
自古逢秋悲寂寥， 我言秋日勝春朝。
晴空一鶴排雲上， 便引詩情到碧霄。

An Autumnal Verse (Poem No.1)          Liu Yuxi (772-842)

Autumnal melancholy and solitude has been plaguing people from of old,
Compared to a spring morning I find an autumn day even more congenial,
In the hyaline azure ether a heron cuts across the cloudscape all by itself,
The azure heavens my poetic muse will mount as well.

 

春詞 劉禹錫

春詞   劉禹錫 (772-842)
新妝宜面下朱樓，

深鎖春光一院愁。
行到中庭數花朵，

蜻蜓飛上玉搔頭。

A Spring Verse          Liu Yuxi (772-842)

Having exquisitely made up her face she comes down from the vermilion boudoir,

Spring delights and yearnings are all locked by melancholy deep in the patio.
As she comes to the midst of the patio she starts counting the blows,
Presently a dragonfly lights on her jade hair jewel.

 

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.

 

 

蜀先主廟 劉禹錫

蜀先主廟    劉禹錫 (772-842)

天地英雄氣，千秋尚凜然。
勢分三足鼎，業復五銖錢。
得相能開國，生兒不象賢。
凄涼蜀故妓，來舞魏宮前。

Temple of the First Emperor of Shu      Liu Yuxi (772-842)

His heroics had the whole universe thrilled,
After a thousand years he still keeps people in awe,
A tripartite division of the empire was destined to befall,
His greatest feat was to have the five zhu coin money of Emperor Wu of Han reinstalled,
With the help of a capable statesman chancellor he had his kingdom founded and unfurled,
What a pity his son was not as sage as himself at all,
What is more deplorable was the girl performers of Shu in times of old,
Had to perform before the Wei court who had taken over the rule.

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八月十五夜玩月 劉禹錫

八月十五夜玩月     劉禹錫 (772-842)
天將今夜月， 一遍洗寰瀛。
暑退九霄淨， 秋澄萬景清。
星辰讓光彩， 風露發晶英。
能變人間世， 攸然是玉京。

Contemplating the Moon in the Night of the Mid Autumn Festival                 Liu Yuxi (772-842)

Tonight the full moon’s effulgent glow,

On heaven’s order has the whole universe flushed and flowed,
Summer heat retreats leaving the empyrean freshly vestal,
Autumnal hyaline renders everything splendently vivid and graceful,
The clear moonlight even beats the stars’ razzle dazzle,
The autumnal gale and jady dews also emit glittering sparkles,
Plagued by vicissitudes is the human world,
Only the moonlight remains permanent and eternal.

 

 

再遊玄都觀 劉禹錫

再遊玄都觀     劉禹錫  (772-842)

百畝庭中半是苔， 桃花淨盡菜花開。  

種桃道士歸何處， 前度劉郎今又來。  

Xuan Dou Temple Revisited        Liu Yuxi (772-842)    

Half of the hundred acre courtyard is covered with only mosses,

Peach blossoms are all gone leaving only wild flowers making the most,
What has become of the Taoist monk who first planted the peach blows,
Here returns the Liu Chen who has been exiled and demoted.

玄都觀桃花 劉禹錫

玄都觀桃花    劉禹錫  (772-842)

紫陌紅塵拂面來， 無人不道看花回。  

玄都觀裡桃千樹， 盡是劉郎去後栽。  

The Peach Blossoms of the Xuan Dou Temple    

Liu Yuxi (772-842)    

The red dust along the purple lane puff into my face,

Everybody on the way returns after having the peach blossoms to savour,
The thousand trees of peach blossoms flourishing in the temple today,
Are all planted after this Liu Chen has been alienated.

 

烏衣巷 劉禹錫

烏衣巷         劉禹錫(772-842)

朱雀橋邊野草花，烏衣巷口夕陽斜。  

舊時王謝堂前燕，飛入尋常百姓家。  

The Black Array Alley      Liu Yuxi (772-842)

By the Vermillion Birds Bridge there teems with wild grasses and blows,

On the Black Array Alley the setting sun glows,
The swallows that used to nestle in the halls of the high and powerful,
Have now moved their nests into the ordinary households

 

 

秋風引 劉禹錫

秋風引         劉禹錫 (772-842)

何處秋風至， 蕭蕭送雁群。    

朝來入庭樹， 孤客最先聞。

A Verse to the Autumnal Gale     Liu Yuxi (772-842)

Where comes this autumnal gale,

Rattling it ushers in wild geese in files,
In the morning amid the trees in the court it rustles,
Who else would notice this scenario other than the solitary wayfarer stranded idle.