唐 詩 Tang Shi – 300 Tang poems

黃鶴樓
昔人已乘黃鶴去， 此地空餘黃鶴樓。
黃鶴一去不復返， 白雲千載空悠悠。
晴川歷歷漢陽樹， 芳草萋萋鸚鵡洲。
日暮鄉關何處是？ 煙波江上使人愁。

原文 170

Where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven,
Nothing is left now but the Yellow Crane Terrace.
The yellow crane never revisited earth,
And white clouds are flying without him for ever.
...Every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water,
And Parrot Island is a nest of sweet grasses;
But I look toward home, and twilight grows dark
With a mist of grief on the river waves.

Bynner 170

行經華陰
岧嶢太華俯咸京， 天外三峰削不成。
武帝祠前雲欲散， 仙人掌上雨初晴。
河山北枕秦關險， 驛樹西連漢畤平。
借問路傍名利客， 無如此處學長生。

原文 171

Lords of the capital, sharp, unearthly,
The Great Flower's three points pierce through heaven.
Clouds are parting above the Temple of the Warring Emperor,
Rain dries on the mountain, on the Giant's Palm.
Ranges and rivers are the strength of this western gate,
Whence roads and trails lead downward into China.
...O pilgrim of fame, O seeker of profit,
Why not remain here and lengthen your days?

Bynner 171

望薊門
燕臺一去客心驚， 簫鼓喧喧漢將營。
萬里寒光生積雪， 三邊曙色動危旌。
沙場烽火侵胡月， 海畔雲山擁薊城。
少小雖非投筆吏， 論功還欲請長纓。

原文 172

My heart sank when I headed north from Yan Country
To the camps of China echoing ith bugle and drum.
...In an endless cold light of massive snow,
Tall flags on three borders rise up like a dawn.
War-torches invade the barbarian moonlight,
Mountain-clouds like chairmen bear the Great Wall from the sea.
...Though no youthful clerk meant to be a great general,
I throw aside my writing-brush –
Like the student who tossed off cap for a lariat,
I challenge what may come.

Bynner 172

送魏萬之京
朝聞遊子唱驪歌， 昨夜微霜初度河。
鴻雁不堪愁裡聽， 雲山況是客中過。
關城樹色催寒近， 御苑砧聲向晚多。
莫見長安行樂處， 空令歲月易蹉跎。

原文 173

The travellers' parting-song sounds in the dawn.
Last night a first frost came over the river;
And the crying of the wildgeese grieves my sad heart
Bounded by a gloom of cloudy mountains....
Here in the Gate City, day will flush cold
And washing-flails quicken by the gardens at twilight –
How long shall the capital content you,
Where the months and the years so vainly go by?

Bynner 173

九日登望仙臺呈劉明府
漢文皇帝有高臺， 此日登臨曙色開。
三晉雲山皆北向， 二陵風雨自東來。
關門令尹誰能識？ 河上仙翁去不回，
且欲竟尋彭澤宰， 陶然共醉菊花杯。

原文 174

The Han Emperor Wen bequeathed us this terrace
Which I climb to watch the coming dawn.
Cloudy peaks run northward in the three Jin districts,
And rains are blowing westward through the two Ling valleys.
...Who knows but me about the Guard at the Gate,
Or where the Magician of the River Bank is,
Or how to find that magistrate, that poet,
Who was as fond as I am of chrysanthemums and winecups?

Bynner 174

登金陵鳳凰台
鳳凰台上鳳凰游， 鳳去台空江自流。
吳宮花草埋幽徑， 晉代衣冠成古邱。
三台半落青山外， 二水中分白鷺洲。
總為浮雲能蔽日， 長安不見使人愁。

原文 175

Phoenixes that played here once, so that the place was named for them,
Have abandoned it now to this desolate river;
The paths of Wu Palace are crooked with weeds;
The garments of Qin are ancient dust.
...Like this green horizon halving the Three Peaks,
Like this Island of White Egrets dividing the river,
A cloud has arisen between the Light of Heaven and me,
To hide his city from my melancholy heart.

Bynner 175

送李少府貶峽中王少府貶長沙
嗟君此別意何如？ 駐馬銜杯問謫居。
巫峽啼猿數行淚， 衡陽歸雁幾封書。
青楓江上秋帆遠， 白帝城邊古木疏。
聖代即今多雨露， 暫時分手莫躊躇。

原文 176

What are you thinking as we part from one another,
Pulling in our horses for the stirrup-cups?
Do these tear-streaks mean Wu Valley monkeys all weeping,
Or wildgeese returning with news from Heng Mountain?....
On the river between green maples an autumn sail grows dim,
There are only a few old trees by the wall of the White God City....
But the year is bound to freshen us with a dew of heavenly favour –
Take heart, we shall soon be together again!

Bynner 176

奉和中書舍人賈至早朝大明宮
雞鳴紫陌曙光寒， 鶯囀皇州春色闌。
金闕曉鐘開萬戶， 玉階仙仗擁千官。
花迎劍珮星初落， 柳拂旌旗露未乾。
獨有鳳凰池上客， 陽春一曲和皆難。

原文 177

Cock-crow, the Purple Road cold in the dawn;
Linnet songs, court roofs tinted with April;
At the Golden Gate morning bell, countless doors open,
And up the jade steps float a thousand officials
With flowery scabbards.... Stars have gone down;
Willows are brushing the dew from the flags –
And, alone on the Lake of the Phoenix, a guest
Is chanting too well The Song of Bright Spring.

Bynner 177

和賈舍人早朝大明宮之作
絳幘雞人送曉籌， 尚衣方進翠雲裘。
九天閶闔開宮殿， 萬國衣冠拜冕旒。
日色纔臨仙掌動， 香煙欲傍袞龍浮。
朝罷須裁五色詔， 珮聲歸向鳳池頭。

原文 178

The red-capped Cock-Man has just announced morning;
The Keeper of the Robes brings Jade-Cloud Furs;
Heaven's nine doors reveal the palace and its courtyards;
And the coats of many countries bow to the Pearl Crown.
Sunshine has entered the giants' carven palms;
Incense wreathes the Dragon Robe:
The audience adjourns-and the five-coloured edict
Sets girdle-beads clinking toward the Lake of the Phoenix.

Bynner 178

奉和聖製從蓬萊向興慶閣道中留春雨中春望之作應制
渭水自縈秦塞曲， 黃山舊遶漢宮斜。
鑾輿迥出千門柳， 閣道迴看上苑花。
雲裡帝城雙鳳闕， 雨中春樹萬人家。
為乘陽氣行時令， 不是宸遊玩物華。

原文 179

Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

Bynner 179

積雨輞川莊作
積雨空林煙火遲， 蒸藜炊黍餉東菑。
漠漠水田飛白鷺， 陰陰夏木囀黃鸝。
山中習靜觀朝槿， 松下清齋折露葵。
野老與人爭席罷， 海鷗何事更相疑？

原文 180

The woods have stored the rain, and slow comes the smoke
As rice is cooked on faggots and carried to the fields;
Over the quiet marsh-land flies a white egret,
And mango-birds are singing in the full summer trees....
I have learned to watch in peace the mountain morningglories,
To eat split dewy sunflower-seeds under a bough of pine,
To yield the post of honour to any boor at all....
Why should I frighten sea gulls, even with a thought?

Bynner 180

酬郭給事
洞門高閣靄餘輝， 桃李陰陰柳絮飛。
禁裡疏鐘官舍晚， 省中啼鳥吏人稀。
晨搖玉珮趨金殿， 夕奉天書拜瑣闈。
強欲從君無那老， 將因臥病解朝衣。

原文 181

High beyond the thick wall a tower shines with sunset
Where peach and plum are blooming and the willowcotton flies.
You have heard in your office the court-bell of twilight;
Birds find perches, officials head for home.
Your morning-jade will tinkle as you thread the golden palace;
You will bring the word of Heaven from the closing gates at night.
And I should serve there with you; but being full of years,
I have taken off official robes and am resting from my troubles.

Bynner 181

蜀相
丞相祠堂何處尋？ 錦官城外柏森森，
映階碧草自春色， 隔葉黃鸝空好音。
三顧頻煩天下計， 兩朝開濟老臣心。
出師未捷身先死， 長使英雄淚滿襟。

原文 182

Where is the temple of the famous Premier? –
In a deep pine grove near the City of Silk,
With the green grass of spring colouring the steps,
And birds chirping happily under the leaves.
...The third summons weighted him with affairs of state
And to two generations he gave his true heart,
But before he could conquer, he was dead;
And heroes have wept on their coats ever since.

Bynner 182

客至
舍南舍北皆春水， 但見群鷗日日來。
花徑不曾緣客掃， 蓬門今始為君開。
盤飧市遠無兼味， 樽酒家貧只舊醅。
肯與鄰翁相對飲， 隔籬呼取盡餘杯。

原文 183

North of me, south of me, spring is in flood,
Day after day I have seen only gulls....
My path is full of petals – I have swept it for no others.
My thatch gate has been closed – but opens now for you.
It's a long way to the market, I can offer you little –
Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups.
Shall we summon my elderly neighbour to join us,
Call him through the fence, and pour the jar dry?

Bynner 183

野望
西山白雪三城戍， 南浦清江萬里橋。
海內風塵諸弟隔， 天涯涕淚一身遙。
唯將遲暮供多病， 未有涓埃答聖朝。
跨馬出郊時極目， 不堪人事日蕭條。

原文 184

Snow is white on the westward mountains and on three fortified towns,
And waters in this southern lake flash on a long bridge.
But wind and dust from sea to sea bar me from my brothers;
And I cannot help crying, I am so far away.
I have nothing to expect now but the ills of old age.
I am of less use to my country than a grain of dust.
I ride out to the edge of town. I watch on the horizon,
Day after day, the chaos of the world.

Bynner 184

聞官軍收河南河北
劍外忽傳收薊北， 初聞涕淚滿衣裳。
卻看妻子愁何在？ 漫卷詩書喜欲狂。
白日放歌須縱酒， 青春作伴好還鄉。
即從巴峽穿巫峽， 便下襄陽向洛陽。

原文 185

News at this far western station! The north has been recaptured!
At first I cannot check the tears from pouring on my coat –
Where is my wife? Where are my sons?
Yet crazily sure of finding them, I pack my books and poems- -
And loud my song and deep my drink
On the green spring-day that starts me home,
Back from this mountain, past another mountain,
Up from the south, north again-to my own town!

Bynner 185

登高
風急天高猿嘯哀， 渚清沙白鳥飛迴。
無邊落木蕭蕭下， 不盡長江滾滾來。
萬里悲秋常作客， 百年多病獨登臺。
艱難苦恨繁霜鬢， 潦倒新停濁酒杯。

原文 186

In a sharp gale from the wide sky apes are whimpering,
Birds are flying homeward over the clear lake and white sand,
Leaves are dropping down like the spray of a waterfall,
While I watch the long river always rolling on.
I have come three thousand miles away. Sad now with autumn
And with my hundred years of woe, I climb this height alone.
Ill fortune has laid a bitter frost on my temples,
Heart-ache and weariness are a thick dust in my wine.

Bynner 186

登樓
花近高樓傷客心， 萬方多難此登臨。
錦江春色來天地， 玉壘浮雲變古今。
北極朝庭終不改， 西山寇盜莫相侵。
可憐後主還祠廟， 日暮聊為梁父吟。

原文 187

Flowers, as high as my window, hurt the heart of a wanderer
For I see, from this high vantage, sadness everywhere.
The Silken River, bright with spring, floats between earth and heaven
Like a line of cloud by the Jade Peak, between ancient days and now.
...Though the State is established for a while as firm as the North Star
And bandits dare not venture from the western hills,
Yet sorry in the twilight for the woes of a longvanished Emperor,
I am singing the song his Premier sang when still unestranged from the mountain.

Bynner 187

宿府
清秋幕府井梧寒， 獨宿江城蠟炬殘。
永夜角聲悲自語， 中天月色好誰看？
風塵荏苒音書絕， 關塞蕭條行陸難。
已忍伶俜十年事， 強移棲息一枝安。
又作路

原文 188

The autumn night is clear and cold in the lakka-trees of this courtyard.
I am lying forlorn in the river-town. I watch my guttering candle.
I hear the lonely notes of a bugle sounding through the dark.
The moon is in mid-heaven, but there's no one to share it with me.
My messengers are scattered by whirls of rain and sand.
City-gates are closed to a traveller; mountains are walls in my way –
Yet, I who have borne ten years of pitiable existence,
Find here a perch, a little branch, and am safe for this one night.

Bynner 188

閣夜
歲暮陰陽催短景， 天涯霜雪霽寒霄。
五更鼓角聲悲壯， 三峽星河影動搖。
野哭千家聞戰伐， 夷歌數處起漁樵。
臥龍躍馬終黃土， 人事音書漫寂寥。

原文 189

While winter daylight shortens in the elemental scale
And snow and frost whiten the cold-circling night,
Stark sounds the fifth-watch with a challenge of drum and bugle.
...The stars and the River of Heaven pulse over the three mountains;
I hear women in the distance, wailing after the battle;
I see barbarian fishermen and woodcutters in the dawn.
...Sleeping-Dragon, Plunging-Horse, are no generals now, they are dust –
Hush for a moment, O tumult of the world.

Bynner 189

詠懷古跡五首之一
支離東北風塵際， 漂泊西南天地間。
三峽樓臺淹日月， 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。

原文 190

Forlorn in the northeast among wind and dust,
Drifting in the southwest between heaven and earth,
Lingering for days and months in towers and terraces at the Three Gorges,
Sharing clouds and mountains with the costumes of the Five Streams.
The barbarian serving the ruler in the end was unreliable.
The wandering poet lamenting the times had no chance to return.
Yu Xin throughout his life was most miserable,
In his waning years his poetry stirred the land of rivers and passes.

Bynner 190

詠懷古跡五首之二
搖落深知宋玉悲， 風流儒雅亦吾師。
悵望千秋一灑淚， 蕭條異代不同時。
江山故宅空文藻， 雲雨荒臺豈夢思。
最是楚宮俱泯滅， 舟人指點到今疑。

原文 191

"Decay and decline": deep knowledge have I of Sung Yu's grief.
Romantic and refined, he too is my teacher.
Sadly looking across a thousand autumns, one shower of tears,
Melancholy in different epochs, not at the same time.
Among rivers and mountains his old abode – empty his writings;
Deserted terrace of cloud and rain – surely not just imagined in a dream?
Utterly the palaces of Chu are all destroyed and ruined,
The fishermen pointing them out today are unsure.

Bynner 191

詠懷古跡五首之三
群山萬壑赴荊門， 生長明妃尚有村。
一去紫臺連朔漠， 獨留青塚向黃昏。
畫圖省識春風面， 環珮空歸月下魂。
千載琵琶作胡語， 分明怨恨曲中論。

原文 192

Ten thousand ranges and valleys approach the Jing Gate
And the village in which the Lady of Light was born and bred.
She went out from the purple palace into the desertland;
She has now become a green grave in the yellow dusk.
Her face ! Can you picture a wind of the spring?
Her spirit by moonlight returns with a tinkling
Song of the Tartars on her jade guitar,
Telling her eternal sorrow.

Bynner 192

詠懷古跡五首之四
蜀主征吳幸三峽， 崩年亦在永安宮。
翠華想像空山裡， 玉殿虛無野寺中。
古廟杉松巢水鶴， 歲時伏臘走村翁。
武侯祠屋常鄰近， 一體君臣祭祀同。

原文 193

The ruler of Shu had his eyes on Wu and progressed as far as the Three Gorges.
In the year of his demise, too, he was in the Palace of Eternal Peace.
The blue-green banners can be imagined on the empty mountain,
The jade palace is a void in the deserted temple.
In the pines of the ancient shrine aquatic cranes nest;
At summer and winter festivals the comers are village elders.
The Martial Marquis's memorial shrine is ever nearby;
In union, sovereign and minister share the sacrifices together.

Bynner 193

詠懷古跡五首之五
諸葛大名垂宇宙， 宗臣遺像肅清高。
三分割據紆籌策， 萬古雲霄一羽毛。
伯仲之間見伊呂， 指揮若定失蕭曹。
運移漢祚終難復， 志決身殲軍務勞。

原文 194

Zhuge's prestige transcends the earth;
There is only reverence for his face;
Yet his will, among the Three Kingdoms at war,
Was only as one feather against a flaming sky.
He was brother of men like Yi and Lu
And in time would have surpassed the greatest of all statesmen.
Though he knew there was no hope for the House of Han,
Yet he wielded his mind for it, yielded his life.

Bynner 194

江州重別薛六柳八二員外
生涯豈料承優詔？ 世事空知學醉歌。
江上月明胡雁過， 淮南木落楚山多。
寄身且喜滄洲近， 顧影無如白髮何！
今日龍鐘人共老， 媿君猶遣慎風波。

原文 195

Dare I, at my age, accept my summons,
Knowing of the world's ways only wine and song?....
Over the moon-edged river come wildgeese from the Tartars;
And the thinner the leaves along the Huai, the wider the southern mountains....
I ought to be glad to take my old bones back to the capital,
But what am I good for in that world, with my few white hairs?....
As bent and decrepit as you are, I am ashamed to thank you,
When you caution me that I may encounter thunderbolts.

Bynner 195

長沙過賈誼宅
三年謫宦此棲遲， 萬古惟留楚客悲。
秋草獨尋人去後， 寒林空見日斜時。
漢文有道恩猶薄， 湘水無情弔豈知？
寂寂江山搖落處， 憐君何事到天涯？

原文 196

Here, where you spent your three years' exile,
To be mourned in Chu ten thousand years,
Can I trace your footprint in the autumn grass –
Or only slanting sunlight through the bleak woods?
If even good Emperor Wen was cold-hearted,
Could you hope that the dull river Xiang would understand you,
These desolate waters, these taciturn mountains,
When you came, like me, so far away?

Bynner 196

自夏口至鸚洲夕望岳陽寄源中丞
汀洲無浪復無煙， 楚客相思益渺然。
漢口夕陽斜渡鳥， 洞庭秋水遠連天。
孤城背嶺寒吹角， 獨戍臨江夜泊船。
賈誼上書憂漢室， 長沙謫去古今憐。

原文 197

No ripples in the river, no mist on the islands,
Yet the landscape is blurred toward my friend in Chu....
Birds in the slanting sun cross Hankou,
And the autumn sky mingles with Lake Dongting.
...From a bleak mountain wall the cold tone of a bugle
Reminds me, moored by a ruined fort,
That Jia Yi's loyal plea to the House of Han
Banned him to Changsha, to be an exile.

Bynner 197

贈闕下裴舍人
二月黃鸝飛上林， 春城紫禁曉陰陰。
長樂鐘聲花外盡， 龍池柳色雨中深。
陽和不散窮途恨， 霄漢長懷捧日心。
獻賦十年猶未遇， 羞將白髮對華簪。

原文 198

Finches flash yellow through the Imperial Grove
Of the Forbidden City, pale with spring dawn;
Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss
And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;
But spring is no help to a man bewildered,
Who would be like a cloud upholding the Light of Heaven,
Yet whose poems, ten years refused, are shaming
These white hairs held by the petalled pin.

Bynner 198

寄李儋元錫
去年花裡逢君別， 今日花開又一年。
世事茫茫難自料， 春愁黯黯獨成眠。
身多疾病思田里， 邑有流亡愧俸錢。
聞道欲來相問訊， 西樓望月幾回圓。

原文 199

We met last among flowers, among flowers we parted,
And here, a year later, there are flowers again;
But, with ways of the world too strange to foretell,
Spring only brings me grief and fatigue.
I am sick, and I think of my home in the country-
Ashamed to take pay while so many are idle.
...In my western tower, because of your promise,
I have watched the full moons come and go.

Bynner 199

同題仙游觀
仙臺初見五城樓， 風物淒淒宿雨收。
山色遙連秦樹晚， 砧聲近報漢宮秋。
疏松影落空壇靜， 細草香閑小洞幽。
何用別尋方外去？ 人間亦自有丹丘。

原文 200

I face, high over this enchanted lodge, the Court of the Five Cities of Heaven,
And I see a countryside blue and still, after the long rain.
The distant peaks and trees of Qin merge into twilight,
And Had Palace washing-stones make their autumnal echoes.
Thin pine-shadows brush the outdoor pulpit,
And grasses blow their fragrance into my little cave.
...Who need be craving a world beyond this one?
Here, among men, are the Purple Hills

Bynner 200

春思
鶯啼燕語報新年， 馬邑龍堆路幾千。
家住層城鄰漢苑， 心隨明月到胡天。
機中錦字論長恨， 樓上花枝笑獨眠。
為問天戎竇車騎， 何時返旆勒燕然。

原文 201

Finch-notes and swallow-notes tell the new year....
But so far are the Town of the Horse and the Dragon Mound
From this our house, from these walls and Han Gardens,
That the moon takes my heart to the Tartar sky.
I have woven in the frame endless words of my grieving....
Yet this petal-bough is smiling now on my lonely sleep.
Oh, ask General Dou when his flags will come home
And his triumph be carved on the rock of Yanran mountain!

Bynner 201

晚次鄂州
雲開遠見漢陽城， 猶是孤帆一日程。
估客晝眠知浪靜， 舟人夜語覺潮生。
三湘愁鬢逢秋色， 萬里歸心對月明。
舊業已隨征戰盡， 更堪江上鼓鼙聲。

原文 202

Far off in the clouds stand the walls of Hanyang,
Another day's journey for my lone sail....
Though a river-merchant ought to sleep in this calm weather,
I listen to the tide at night and voices of the boatmen.
...My thin hair grows wintry, like the triple Xiang streams,
Three thousand miles my heart goes, homesick with the moon;
But the war has left me nothing of my heritage –
And oh, the pang of hearing these drums along the river!

Bynner 202

登柳州城樓寄漳汀封連四州刺史
城上高樓接大荒， 海天愁思正茫茫。
驚風亂颭芙蓉水， 密雨斜侵薜荔牆。
嶺樹重遮千里目， 江流曲似九迴腸。
共來百越文身地， 猶自音書滯一鄉。

原文 203

At this lofty tower where the town ends, wilderness begins;
And our longing has as far to go as the ocean or the sky....
Hibiscus-flowers by the moat heave in a sudden wind,
And vines along the wall are whipped with slanting rain.
Nothing to see for three hundred miles but a blur of woods and mountain –
And the river's nine loops, twisting in our bowels....
This is where they have sent us, this land of tattooed people –
And not even letters, to keep us in touch with home.

Bynner 203

西塞山懷古
王濬樓船下益州， 金陵王氣黯然收。
千尋鐵鎖沈江底， 一片降旛出石頭。
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。

原文 204

Since Wang Jun brought his towering ships down from Yizhou,
The royal ghost has pined in the city of Nanjing.
Ten thousand feet of iron chain were sunk here to the bottom –
And then came the flag of surrender on the Wall of Stone....
Cycles of change have moved into the past,
While still this mountain dignity has commanded the cold river;
And now comes the day of the Chinese world united,
And the old forts fill with ruin and with autumn reeds.

Bynner 204

遣悲懷之一
謝公最小偏憐女， 自嫁黔婁百事乖。
顧我無衣搜藎篋， 泥他沽酒拔金釵。
野蔬充膳甘長藿， 落葉添薪仰古槐。
今日俸錢過十萬， 與君營奠復營齋。

原文 205

O youngest, best-loved daughter of Xie,
Who unluckily married this penniless scholar,
You patched my clothes from your own wicker basket,
And I coaxed off your hairpins of gold, to buy wine with;
For dinner we had to pick wild herbs –
And to use dry locust-leaves for our kindling.
...Today they are paying me a hundred thousand –
And all that I can bring to you is a temple sacrifice.

Bynner 205