尋尋覓覓，冷冷清清，淒淒慘慘戚戚。乍暖還寒時候，最難將息。三杯兩盞淡酒，怎敵他、晚來風急。雁過也，正傷心，卻是舊時相識。

滿地黃花堆積。憔悴損，如今有誰堪摘。守著窗兒，獨自怎生得黑。梧桐更兼細雨，到黃昏、點點滴滴。這次第，怎一個、愁字了得。

Tune:  Adagio        Li Qing Zhao            江紹倫譯

I search and search for what’s missing
Riding on a cold lonely train hissing
Drearily hurtfully painfully

Whence the weather alternates between warm and cold
‘Tis most difficult to forget and hold

Drinking by cups and carafes alone I float
Cannot dispel the gloom of dusk and drifts of sudden blow
I watch geese flying pass
In grief
Could they be the ones I used to know

             …   …   …

Yellow flowers cover everywhere in piles
Faded
Who would care to pick any to hold

I sit by the window in solitude
Waiting counting how long will it take till night befall
Of plane trees and drizzles
They patter and grizzle at dusk

For all these
How could the word sorrow my circumstances narrate

天上星河轉，人間簾幕垂。涼生枕簟淚痕滋。起解羅衣聊問、夜何其。

翠貼蓮蓬小，金銷藕葉稀。舊時天氣舊時衣。只有情懷不似、舊家時。

Tune:  Southern Country Song         Li Qing Zhao        江紹倫譯

On high the Milky Way veers
On earth window drapes fall low
Tears wet the pillow and the mat is cold
I wake from sleep to adjust my clothes
Wondering how long this night has to go 

The green on my robe tells the budding lotus seeds
Gold threads fade where embroidered leaves are seen
In old weathers I wear clothes old
Moods remain
‘Tis not the same as moods of old

風柔日薄春猶早      夾衫乍著心情好      睡起覺微寒   梅花鬢上殘

故鄉何處是    忘了除非醉    沈水臥時燒    香消酒未消

Tune:  Buddhist Dancer         Li Qing Zhao                   江紹倫譯

Gentle breeze and a pale sun signal an early spring
Wearing lined clothes I feel life is warm and pink
Awake from sleep a mild chill still invades
The white mume on my hair fades

Where is my homeland
Only when drunk can I forget this empty feeling
I light incense before I retire to bed at night
In the morning the incense gone but not my drunkenness

淮左名都，竹西佳處，解鞍少駐初程。
過春風十里，盡薺麥青青。
自胡馬窺江去後，廢池喬木，猶厭言兵。
漸黃昏、清角吹寒，都在空城。
杜郎俊賞，算而今、重到須驚。
縱豆蔻詞工，青樓夢好，難賦深情。
二十四橋仍在，波心蕩冷月無聲。
念橋邊紅藥，年年知為誰生。

Tune: The Yangzhou Adagio     Jiang Kui   (1155-1221)                 江紹倫譯

To the left of River Huai stands this famous capital town
West of scenic bamboo mount
I alight for a short break in my long journey

Behind me was ten li of bounty land
Green with thriving wheat strand

Ever since the northern land was overrun by the Jerchen steeds
Even tall trees around the wayward ponds
Are tired of hearing war deeds

Approaching dusk
Bugles sounded cold
From vacant towns young and old

This place the poet Du Mu praised with monumental say
Alas he would have a big surprise visiting today

His famed verses on cardamoms and sprig
And dreams in green brothels so sweet
Would be counterpoints in expressing my deep distress

The twenty-four-arch Bridge still a public interest
Beneath them water swirls continue to churn and crest
The cold moon says not a word

Ask the peonies beside these proud bridges
To whom they show their brilliance year after year

一帶江山如畫  風物向秋瀟灑  水浸碧天何處斷  翠色冷光相射  蓼岸荻花中  隱映竹籬茅舍

雲際客帆高掛  門外酒旗低垂  多少六朝興廢事  盡入漁樵閒話  悵望倚危欄  紅日無言西下

Tune: Swallow Vacated Pavilion     Zhang Bian(992-1077)     江紹倫譯

My motherland is so picturesque in a grand sweep
The view in autumn is especially splendid and sweet
Water merge with sky as one leaving no stack in space
The sun’s cooling rays match the evening hue with grace
Where on the islets tall reeds thrive like hay
Bamboo fences keep my thatched cabin under shade

Under distant clouds a white sail stands tall
Beyond the mist tavern flags hang low to call
What of events recording the Six Dynasties their rise and fall
Fishermen and loggers weave stories to tell them all
I watch in melancholy the multi-story tower reflecting our glorious past
Saying not a word the sun sets westward fast

紅藕香殘玉簟秋   輕解羅裳   獨上蘭舟   雲中誰寄錦書來   雁字回時   月滿西樓

花自飄零水自流  一種相思  兩處閒愁  此情無計可消除  才下眉頭  卻上心頭 

Tune: A Twig of Mume       Li Qing Zhao (1084-1151)     江紹倫譯 

Pink lotus its fragrance fades on a mat of jade
I doff my silk robe
To board alone on an orchid boat
From among the clouds who would send me a letter written on brocade
Whence the geese return
Moonlight will fill my bower

In nature flowers drift as water flows
One single agog
Heartbreaks in two places
How to dismiss this sorrow I know not
It may disappear from eyebrow knit
But sinks into my aching heart deep

昨夜雨疏風驟
濃睡不消殘酒
試問捲簾人
卻道海棠依舊
知否
知否
應是綠肥紅瘦

Tune: Like a Dream               Li Qing Zhao (1084-1151)             江紹倫譯 

Last night rain fell intermittently with sudden blows
I slept soundly without finishing my remaining fine brew
This morning I ask my maid who is rolling up the screen
The geraniums are fine she says with a beam
D’you know
D’you know
They ought to grow leaves thick and green and red stems lean

天接雲濤連曉霧。星河欲轉千帆舞。仿佛夢魂歸帝所。聞天語。殷勤問我歸何處。

我報路長嗟日暮。學詩謾有驚人句。九萬里風鵬正舉。風休住。蓬舟吹取三山去。

Tune Fisherman’s Pride            Li Qing Zhao (1084-1151)           江紹倫譯

Waves of cloud and morning mist adjoin to paint the sky
The Milky Way turns to elicit a thousand sails dance
Dreamy my soul seems to have returned home in heaven
From voices on high
I was asked in earnest where I wish to go

I say ‘tis far far place I would go save the sun is old
My poems are full of verses that shake people’s souls
The legend big bird sails the wind to go ninety thousand li
O wind don’t you stop
My boat will sail through the mountain-bound divine sea

薄霧濃雲愁永晝   瑞腦消金獸   佳節又重陽   玉枕紗廚   半夜涼初透

東籬把酒黃昏後    有暗香盈袖     莫道不消魂     簾卷西風    人似黃花瘦

Tune: Drunk Under Flower Shade           Li Qing Zhao (1084-1151)        江紹倫譯

Amid thin mist or thick clouds my sorrows linger night and day
The inlaid animals on my censer play with the incense smoke so gay
‘Tis Double Nine Fest season again
Behind the translucent drapes my jade pillow lay
By midnight chills mercilessly invade

In the evening I drink by the eastern flower hedge
My sleeves filled with fragrance
Who could say this life is not bright and easy
Whence wind from the west uprolls my curtains
Behold my face pale and I am thinner than yellow flowers