羌村三首(其一) 杜甫

羌村三首(其一)    杜甫 (712-770)

崢嶸赤雲西，日腳下平地。
柴門鳥雀噪，歸客千里至。
妻孥怪我在，驚定還拭淚。
世亂遭飄蕩，生還偶然遂。
鄰人滿牆頭，感嘆亦歔欷。
夜闌更秉燭，相對如夢寐。

A Triplet on Qiang Village (My Home Village) (Poem No.1)    

Du Fu (712-770)

Red cloudscape on the west heaped up like monticules,

The sanguine setting sun disappeared under the horizontal,

Birds over my wicker door incessantly warbled,

Through thousands of miles I have finally arrived at my home household,

My sudden appearance to my wife and children came like a bolt,

Coming around they couldn’t stop their tears flow,

I’ve been drifting in these times of turmoil,

It’s purely fortuitous luck that I could still maintain my survival,

My neighbours crowded all over my house walls and incessantly bewailed,

Deep in the night my wife and I gazed at each other under the candle,

Suspecting this was only a dream cameo.

寄揚州韓綽判官 杜牧

寄揚州韓綽判官     杜牧 (803-852)
青山隱隱水迢迢，

秋盡江南草未凋。
二十四橋明月夜，

玉人何處教吹簫。

To Magistrate Han Chuo in Yangzhou        Du Mu (803-852)

Diaphanously the verdant mountains are shrouded and the waters spread far far afield,

Autumn comes to the end South of the River but foliage has not yet wilted,
Over the twenty four bridges of Yangzhou the bright moon wields,
Where is the fair one teaching his fife loving student belles how to play the tubule?

 

將赴吳興登樂遊原 杜牧

將赴吳興登樂遊原     杜牧 (803-852)
清時有味是無能，

閒愛孤雲靜愛僧。
欲把一麾江海去，

樂遊原上望昭陵。

Mounting the Leyou Plateau Enroute to Take Up

My Official Devoirs at Wuxing           Du Mu (803-852)

If you enjoy your official devoirs in peaceful times you are literally a man of no merits and incapable,

I savour the solitary clouds as I insouciantly idle and mix only with the monks in my serene tranquil,
Now to the rivers and seas of Wuxing my banners I wield,
On Plateau Leyou to Zhao Ling the Imperial Tomb I’ll pay my homage of awe.

 

旅宿 杜牧

旅宿    杜牧 (803-852)

旅館無良伴，凝情自悄然。
寒燈思舊事，斷雁驚愁眠。
遠夢歸侵曉，家書到隔年。
滄江好煙月，門繫釣魚船。

Putting Up at a Hostel in My Sojourn       

Du Mu (803-852)

Without a companion I put up in a hostel,

Brooding over my life amidst dismals,
Under the chilly lamp things past I recall,
Sleeping in glum I am unsettled by the lone wild goose’s warble,
Returning from my long dream trip back to my homeland as twilight befalls,
Letters from home take more than a year to reach me in my hostel,
Mists and moonlight over the roving river are relishable,
What’s more delightful is a fishing boat is tied at my threshold.

江南春 杜牧

江南春         杜牧 (803-852)

十里鶯啼綠映紅，水村山郭酒旗風。  

南朝四百八十寺，多少樓臺煙雨中。  

Spring South of the River      Du Mu (803-852)

Along these ten miles of reds setting off by greens orioles twitter,
Amid villages by the water and city walls against the hills inn signs flutter,
The four hundred and eighty temples built by the South Dynasty Emperor,
Still stand salient amidst the mizzles and vapours.

 

贈別（其一） 杜牧

贈別（其一）      杜牧(803-852)

娉娉嫋嫋十三餘，豆蔻梢頭二月初。
春風十里揚州路，卷上珠簾總不如。

Saying Goodbye (No. 1)     Du Mu (803-852)

Only thirteen, gracile and lithe, she is beaming with splendor,

A glowing bud in the beginning of the second month coming to flower,
Along the ten golden vernal miles of Yangzhou,
She outshines all girls behind the pearl portieres.

 

贈 別（其二 ） 杜牧

贈別（其二）    杜牧 (803-852)

多情卻似總無情，唯覺尊前笑不成。

蠟燭有心還惜別，替人垂淚到天明

Saying Goodbye (No. 2)        Du Mu (803-852)

Teeming with affections,

But trying our best to hide our emotions,
Drinking you off with this wine, I really can’t put on a cheerful expression,
If not for the candles having a heart specially to heed these situations,
Shedding tears for us till the sun beams on the horizon.

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.

泊秦淮 杜牧

泊秦淮      杜牧(803-852)

煙籠寒水月籠沙，夜泊秦淮近酒家。

商女不知亡國恨，隔江猶唱《後庭花》。

Taking berth at Qin Huai           Du Mu (803-852)

The chilly river waters are enshrouded in the mists while the sands in clear moonlight,
My boat moors at Qin Huai near a wine house for the night,
The song girls, oblivious of the humiliation of a sovereign forfeiting his rights,
Over the river bank they still sing debauched songs of the old days reflecting on the debauchery nature of the fallen kingdom’s plights.

赤壁 杜牧

赤壁      杜牧(803-852)

折戟沉沙鐵未銷，自將磨洗認前朝。

東風不與周郎便，銅雀春深鎖二喬。

The Red Cliff                     Du Mu (803-852)

Long sunken deep into the sand, the broken iron spear has not yet rotten away,
Having it dug out and restored reveals stories of the kingdoms of the old days,
Had the east wind not gone Zhou Yu’s way,
The devastating beauty of the Qiao sisters would have been dismally locked away in the Tower of the Bronze Sparrow Cage.

 

 

金谷園 杜牧

金谷園      杜牧(803-852)

繁華事散逐香塵，流水無情草自春。

日暮東風怨啼鳥，落花猶似墜樓人。

Garden of the Golden Valley           Du Mu (803-852)

Gone is the sumptuous fanfare with the scented dust,

On flow the relentless waters, so the flush of the grasses,
The east wind is heavily imbued with mournful cries of birds in the dusk,
Falling flowers conjure up image of the beauty jumped from the pavilion to her last.

 

秋夕 杜牧

秋夕        杜牧(803-852)

銀燭秋光冷畫屏，輕羅小扇撲流螢。

天街夜色涼如水，臥看牽牛織女星。

Autumn Night               Du Mu (803-852)

On the garnished screen autumnal tinct casts a layer of silver candlelight glitter,

With a small silk fan, she pats at fireflies that flutter,
The night sky over the courtyard is chilly and aqua clear,
Lying down, she contemplates the Cowherd and the Girl Weaver.

遣懷 杜牧

遣懷            杜牧(803-852)   

落魄江湖載酒行，楚腰纖細掌中輕。

十年一覺揚州夢，贏得青樓薄倖名。

 

Speaking my bosom            Du Mu (803-852)   

Fallen and wretched, I’ve been on the tramp with only my wine to drown my bale,

I am always attracted to petite and slim-waist belles,
Now, awakened from my ten-year Yangzhou dream, only to tell
I’ve only been dubbed “the philanderer” among the bordels.