渡漢江 李頻

渡漢江     李頻 (818 – 876)

嶺外音書絕，經冬復立春。

近鄉情更怯，不敢問來人。

Crossing the Han River       Li Pin (818 – 876)

Living beyond the south ranges from my home I receive no epistles,

It’s now well past winter and spring again approaches,

Having crossed the Han River my homeland is close,

But the closer I get the yellower my heart grows,

I even dare not ask people things of my household.

聽箏 李端

聽箏     李端(743-782)

鳴箏金粟柱，素手玉房前。

欲得周郎顧，時時誤拂弦。

Listening to the Zither      Li Duan    (743-782)
On the strings over the gold struts of the zither she sits down to buckle,

Between the jade strut vaults her white delicate fingers stroll,

As her dream lover knows the knack of the zither thoroughly well,

Trying to enlist his help to correct her flaws she deliberately gives a faulty show.

玉階怨 李白

玉階怨    李白(701- 762)

玉階生白露，夜久侵羅襪。

卻下水晶帘，玲瓏望秋月。

Rancor on the Jade Steps      Li Bai (701- 762)

On the jade steps white dews grow,
Deep in the chilly night into one’s socks they impale,
She lets down the crystal portiere,
Through it  she alone contemplates the efflugent autumnal moon’s glow.

哥舒歌 西鄙人

哥舒歌     西鄙人(唐)

北斗七星高，哥舒夜帶刀。

至今窺牧馬，不敢過臨洮。

A Song of the Turkic Geshu Han   

Someone in the West Borders (Tang Poet)

High high hang the seven stars of the North Pole,

Geshu Han carries a sword even in nightfall,

Today over the Han purlieu the Tibetans dare not raise their horses,

Even Lin and Tao they dare not wade across.

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.

 

塞下曲(其四) 盧綸

塞下曲(其四)   盧綸 (748-800)

野幕蔽瓊筵，羌戎賀勞旋。
醉和金甲舞，雷鼓動山川。

A Song of the Borders (Poem No.4)     Lu Lun (748-800)

In the camps out in the wilds,

The West Qiang barbarians have prepared an exquisite feast to regale the general,
Drunken the general dances waving in the air his helms,
All soldiers hail with thundering drum bolts that rock mountains in a tremble,