少年遊 蘇軾

少年遊   潤州作，代人寄遠      蘇軾 (1037-1101)

去年相送，餘杭門外，飛雪似楊花。
今年春盡，楊花似雪，猶不見還家。

對酒卷簾邀明月，風露透窗紗。
恰似姮娥憐雙燕，分明照、畫梁斜。

Shao Nian You  Written in Runzhou for someone to someone far off
Su Shi (1037-1101)

This time last year I bid you farewell,

Outside my door in Hangzhou snows like willow down flew aloft,
This year spring again speeds off,
As snowdrifts willow down again flitter tall,
You are yet to hit your homebound trail,
Beyond the rolled up portiere I invite the bright moon with wine in hand to join me for the bottle,
Through the portiere wind brings dews in over the window,
As if taking fond care of the couple of roosting swallows,
On the ornate rafter the slanting bright moonlight glows.

 

 

 

 

望江南 溫庭筠

望江南          溫庭筠(812-870)

梳洗罷，獨倚望江樓 ，

過盡千帆皆不是，
斜暉脈脈水悠悠， 腸斷白蘋洲。

Espying River South           Wen Tingjun (812-870)

Having spruced up solitarily I lean on the River Tower,

A thousand sails pass but none is the one I seek after,
Lost in a reverie I gaze amidst the flush of the setting sun affectionately at the gently running water,
Over the seaweed ait my bruised soul hovers.

 

絕句 夏元鼎

絕句    夏元鼎(宋)

崆峒訪道至湘湖，萬卷詩書看轉愚。

踏破鐵鞋無覓處，得來全不費工夫。

 

A Jue Ju (Snapped-off lines) Poem       Xia Yuanding (Song Poet)

Looking for my illumination guru in Mt. Kong Tong my trip takes me to Lake Xiang as it ensues,

Flipping through thousands of books trying to solve my frustrations I’ve become more puzzled,
Seeking everywhere even having worn out my iron shoes the whereabouts of the solutions there is not a clue,
Presently they turn up without the slightest toil and moil.

 

梅花二首(其二) 蘇軾

梅花二首(其二)        蘇軾 (1037-1101)

何人把酒慰深幽, 開自無聊落更愁,

幸有清溪三百曲, 不辭相送到黃州.

The Plum Blossoms (Poem No.2)       Su Shi (1037-1101)

Who’d offer a cup of wine to console her in her desolate still,

Idling in melancholy in bloom but even more dismal when she falls on wilt,
Fortunately there are three hundred tortuous bends of the hyaline rills,
With them she can drift off to end of world where I sulk in exile and fare ill.

 

梅花二首(其一) 蘇軾

梅花二首(其一)          蘇軾 (1037-1101)

春來幽谷水潺潺, 的皪梅花草棘間.

一夜東風吹石裂, 半隨飛雪度關山.

The Plum Blossoms (Poem No.1)       Su Shi (1037-1101)

Spring brings spluttering waters amid desolate dales,

Amidst the grasses and shrubs the plum blossom sparkles,
Under the east wind at night even the rocks crackle,
With the snowdrift half of the plum blossoms fly over the mountain vale.

洗兒 蘇軾

洗兒     蘇軾 (1037-1101)

人皆養子望聰明，我被聰明誤一生。

惟願孩兒愚且魯，無災無難到公卿。

A Gesaku (Playful Poem) on Bathing My Son        

Su Shi (1037-1101)

Everybody wants to have sons smart and shrewd,

But I’ve made a mess of my life for being astute,
All I want is my sons are just reckless damfools,
Peacefully and genially exult in the highest ranks all their lives through.

離思 元稹

離思       元稹(779-831)

曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲。

取次花叢懶回顧，半緣修道半緣君。

Griefs on the Departed         Yuan Zhen (779-831)

Having seen the ocean one tends to disparage all other waters,

Without Mt. Wu cloudscapes elsewhere are nothing spectacular,
Passing through a bevy of belles my head wouldn’t care to gyre,
Partly for you and partly for the Buddhist cultivation I anchor.