《秋夜醉歸有感》《Returning Home Drunk in an Autumn Night》Mao Rong (Tang Dynasty)

銜杯誰道易更闌  Who says drinking hard can quell sadness in an autumn night
沈醉歸來不自歡  I return from the tavern drunk my sorrow still in bind
惆悵後時孤劍冷  Feeling helpless I stare at my sword idly hung on wall
寂寥無寐一燈殘  Sleepless I sit keeping company with my lamp fire in stall Continue reading →

《南雁蕩愛山亭晚眺 (1940年回鄉)》《遊七七亭 (1944)》《半畝 (1945)》
《憶秦娥: 從台歸國 (1946)》《夜飲子愷先生家赋赠 (1947)》《訪東歐 (1956)》
《悼念陳建功 (1977)》 《老馬 (1972)》  《給張素誠 (1972)》《貴州 (1977)》
《金禧給妻 (1978)》《望大小金門島 (1981)》 《憶故鄉 (1983)》
《世紀絕戀 (寫於2002年百歲生辰)》《頌陶小詠》   《外灘夜歸》
《淅江大學》   《八十壽祝賀》《悼亡妻》

蘇步青詩詞選十九首

丈夫只手把吳鉤  I stand a man in hand a long hook my feat
意氣高於百尺樓  With a will high as a tower of one hundred feet
一萬年來誰著史  Ten thousand years of history who will write
三千里外欲封侯  Three thousand miles away who be knights Continue reading →

《From the Pond》    Li Hong Zhang

李鴻章在下關手書《池上篇》，現被收入下關市立博物館

十畝之宅  In ten acres a house I dwell
五畝之園  A garden occupies half the dell
有水一池  A pond water beaming
有竹千竿  A thousand bamboos surrounding
勿謂土狹  It is not a place too small
勿謂地偏  Not away from a port of call
足以容膝  Suffice for me to sit
足以息肩  Suffice to quell my worry wisp
有堂有庭  With a hall and a yard to stroll
有橋有船  With a bridge and a boat to row
有書有酒  Books and wines
有歌有弦  Songs and strings
有叟在中  An old man sits in peace
白須飄然  His white beard flows at ease
識分知足  He knows himself and satisfaction
外無求焉  And cares little about other nations
如鳥擇木  姑務巢安Like a bird roosting in a chosen secure tree
如龜居坎  不知海寬Like a hare in its hole caring not the wide sea
靈鶴怪石  With a garden of spirited rock cranes
紫菱白蓮  A pond nurturing nuts and white lilies
皆吾所好  These my likings
盡在吾前  All in my presence Continue reading →

《Tune: Tall SunTerrace – Rhyme with Zhe My Senior》Lin Ze Xu

玉粟收餘  Jade opium a hefty harvest
金絲種後  Golden tobacco leaf they cultivate
蕃行別有蠻煙  British ships bring in smoking evils
雙管橫陳  Lying down with a double smoking gun at ease Continue reading →

《Moonless Mid-Autumn Festival Night》Fan Zeng Xiang

亙古清光徹九州  Your pristine lights shine on China since old
只今煙霧鎖瓊樓  Today mist and fog cover your palace whole
莫秋遮斷山河影  Do not let your shadows dim our motherland bit by bit
照出山河影更愁  Dividing our hills and rills their parts no longer fit Continue reading →