鷓鴣天

不向長安路上行    卻教山寺厭逢迎
味無味處求吾樂    材不材間過此生

寧作我
豈其卿

人間走遍卻歸耕
一鬆一竹真朋友
山鳥山花好弟兄

At the Bo Shen Temple       Xin Qi Ji(1140－1207) 江紹倫譯
Tune: Partridge Sky

Road to the Capital I no longer seek
Toward the temple friendly monks are hard to meet
I’ve learned to derive taste from foods brand
And led a life unconcerned if my talent its use grand

Myself I am
Than a servitor of fame

Leaving worldly affairs I’ve now returned to till the land
Every pine and bamboo is a true friend
Wild birds and flowers brothers and sisters hand in hand

驛外斷橋邊  寂寞開無主  已是黃昏獨自愁    更著風和雨
無意苦爭春  一任群芳妒  零落成泥碾作塵    只有香如故

In Praise of Mume                    Lu You(1125-1210) 江紹倫譯
Tune: Song of Divination

By the fallen bridge outside the post hall
A flower is in bloom forlorn
She stands in self-imposed dreary by evening
And endures the thrashing of wind and rain

She lays no claim to possess spring
And remain indifferent what envy other flowers bring
Even when her petals fall in mud to become dust
Her fragrance will long remain

舊時月色    算幾番照我  梅邊吹笛
喚起玉人    不管清寒與攀摘
何遜而今漸老      都忘卻春風詞筆
但怪得竹外疏花    香冷入瑤席

江國  正寂寂      嘆寄與路遙  夜雪初積
翠尊易泣    紅萼無言耿相憶
長記曾攜手處      千樹壓西湖寒碧
又片片      吹盡也      幾時見得

Subdue Fragrance      Jiang Kui(1155-1221)      江紹倫譯

Moonlight of yore
How often do you shine on me by my call
To hear me play my flute beside the mume tree

My love I remember you so fair
I reach out for you despite the chill air

How time fleets I’m now old gradually
Forgotten
How my lyrical brush wrote spring events so merry

Beneath the bamboos why should spotty flowers invade
And leave perfumes to cool spreads of jade

My heart a land of streams
Loneliness flows
Could I send you a sprig of mume so far away
When overnight snow begins to cumulate

Branches and leaves shift positions
Memories stall when red petals tell in silent communication

I’ve always remembered together we join hands to create
Witnessed by a thousand trees greening the West Lake 

Why must petals always fall
Whence will you and I join our hands like yore

湖上  閒望
雨蕭蕭      煙浦花橋路遙
謝娘翠娥愁不銷
終朝  夢魂迷晚潮
蕩子天涯歸棹遠
春已晚      鶯語工腸斷
若耶溪      溪水西
柳堤  不聞郎馬嘶

Tune: From the River                Wen Ting Yun（812—870）            江紹倫譯

By the lake
She watches vague

Everywhere rains
Distant beach and bridge in rainy haze

Eyebrows knit the songstress is sad as scenery prolong
All day long
She is lost in the evening tidal song

Her wandering lover is not coming home
‘Tis late spring
Her heart breaks hearing oriels sing

Ask the brook
West of the brook
On the long willowy pathway
When will she hear her lover’s horse neigh

詠燕 

過春社了    度簾幕中間  去年塵冷
差池欲住    試入舊巢相並
還相雕樑藻井      又軟語商量不定
飄然快拂花梢      翠尾分開紅影

芳徑  芹泥雨潤
愛貼地爭飛  競誇輕俊
紅樓歸晚    看足柳暗花暝
應自棲香正穩      便忘了天涯芳信
愁損翠黛雙蛾      日日畫闌獨憑

Swallow Song              Shi Ta Zu(1163-1220)             江紹倫譯
Tune: Pairs of Swallow

Spring is half gone
Between curtains and screen on my door
Last year’s nest stays its mud hard and cold

Wishing to test on a ready made home
A pair of swallows visits to see on their own

Painted ceilings and carved beams they know
Twittering they debated their decision not known
O’er flower beds they wing to and flow
Their fork tails cast moving red shadows

Along the welcoming way
Where rain has moistened clods of clay
The pair flies low in a happy race
Competing on their swift flights so gay

On the evening they return late
Flying between willows and floral maze
They perch in the nest now fragrant and save
Oblivious of a message they were trust to convey

Her anxiety from longing shown on knitted eyebrows
The resident lady waits for her lover by day and by hour

死去元知萬事空
但悲不見九州同
王師北定中原日
家祭無忘告乃翁

To My Son                   Lu You (1125-1210)      江紹倫譯

I know death negates many a worldly deed
Still I grief to see our country not united
Whence our royal force resumed command of the central plain
Tell me in a special rite so my mind will be in peace again

衣上征塵雜酒痕
遠遊無處不消魂
此身合是詩人未
細雨騎驢入劍門

To the Sword Gate in drizzles               Lu You (1125-1210) 江紹倫譯

My coat dusty from wandering is not without a wine stain
I was happy and gay wherever far I strayed
Am I a poet I’m wondering
On a donkey I ride through the Sword Gate when it is drizzling

誰家玉笛暗飛聲    散入春風滿洛城
此夜曲中聞折柳    何人不起故園情

Flute Music in a Spring Night at Louyang          Li Bai(761-762) 江紹倫譯

From whose flute this music is stirring the air
Carried by the east wind to Louyang it enters everybody’s ear
‘Tis the farewell song Willow Branches that’s heard tonight
Who would not feel for our lost motherland nostalgia surge high

天門中斷楚江開    碧水東流至此回
兩岸青山相對出    孤帆一片日邊來

《A View of the Mt. Heaven Pass》        Li Bai(761-762) 江紹倫譯

The Yangtze rolls on to split Mt. Heaven for a gorge
Billows hurl the eastward river to turn back north
As the green riverbanks watch from opposite sides
A solitary sail appears leaving the sun behind

夫子何為者  栖栖一代中
地猶鄹氏邑  宅即魯王宮
嘆鳳嗟身否  傷麟怨道窮
今看兩楹奠  當與夢時同

Honouring Confucius at Lu   Tang Xian Zhon(712-756) 江紹倫譯

What did you strive to teach honourable sage
Busying yourself here and there in your time always
This being the Lu territory in bygone days
Palace the Duke of Lu had his family happily raised

Whence the Phoenix gone did you bemoan your ill-fate
The Unicorn absent you might regret your ideals berate
As we pour libations to honour you with deep bows
You can rest in peace we now defend your teachings with vows