橫看成嶺側成峰
遠近高低各不同
不識廬山真面目
只緣身在此山中
Written on the Wall of Westwood Temple Su Shi (1037-1101) 江紹倫譯
Viewed directly it is a mountain its peak seen from the side
The wonders different when perceived from near far low or high
If you failed to recognize Mount Lu its true face
Just know you are in the heart of the very place
棄我去者昨日之日不可留
亂我心者今日之日多煩憂
長風萬里送秋雁
對此可以酣高樓
蓬萊文章建安骨
中間小謝又清發
俱懷逸興壯思飛
欲上青天覽日月
抽刀斷水水更流
舉懷銷愁愁更愁
人生在世不稱意
明朝散發弄扁舟
Farewell to Uncle Yun at Xuanzhou Li Bai (701-762) 江紹倫譯
What has deserted me yesterday I would not retain
What is disturbing me today its worry will not stay
See how wild geese ride the autumn wind ten thousand li away
A grand sight that calls for rounds of wine to celebrate
While your writings equal the powers of ancient poet saints
My essays are like little Xie’s prose simple and plain
We both share the same ambitions aiming high
Wishing to pick the moon down from the sky
I try to sever the river with my sword its torrents speed up the flow
I try to drown my sorrows with wine more sorrows come on tow
My life in this world is not without despair
Tomorrow let’s sail our boat freely with loosened hair
In the tune of "Pristine Sand under Heaven": Fall Meditation
by Ma Zhiyuan (1250-1321)
枯藤老树昏鸦,
小桥流水人家;
古道西风瘦马,
夕阳西下,
断肠人在天涯!
Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译
On a wilted vine, on an old tree, at dusk a crow roosts.
A quaint footbridge, water running under, crosses over to a homestead.
On an ancient trail westerly wind blows while a gaunt horse wanders.
Sun setting west,
The heart-broken is lost on the edge of heaven.
峨眉山月半輪秋
影入平羌江水流
夜發清溪向三峡
思君不見下渝州
Song of Moon O’er Mt. O Mei Li Bai (701-762) 江紹倫譯
The moon o’er Mt. O Mei appears like autumn’s golden brow
She casts fancy shadows on the meandering river as it quietly flows
I will set out from Clear Stream for the Three Gorges tonight
How I miss you when the tall cliffs keep you out of my sight
眾鳥高飛盡
孤雲獨去閑
相看兩不厭
只有敬亭山
Watching Jingting Peak in Solitude Li Bai (701-762) 江紹倫譯
Birds stop before reaching your majestic peak so high
Solitary clouds drift over you free and nigh
Where I can tirelessly watch birds and clouds the wonderful view
Here when I’m sitting in front of you
钗頭鳳 陸遊 (1125-1210)
紅酥手 黃藤酒
滿城春色宮牆柳
東風惡 歡情薄
一懷愁緒 幾年離索
錯 錯 錯
春如舊 人空瘦
淚痕紅邑鲛绡透
桃花落 閑池閣
山盟雖在 錦書難托
莫 莫 莫
Tune: Phoenix Hairpin Lu You (1125-1210) 江紹倫譯
Tender hands fine
Well aged wine
In a spring-filled city willows confined
Harsh east winds
Happy feelings thin
My heart filled with misery
Yearnings years too long
Wrong Wrong Wrong
Spring like last year remains
I see you are so thin
Your red kerchief soaked with tears
Peach blossoms fall
By the deserted hall
Our love oaths still true
Messages could not get through
No No No
(We know very little about marriages in old times. They were ruled by parents for sure, but not entirely. Lu You divorced his dear wife Tang Wan by his mother’s demand. They met two years later when they were still very much in love. But they were already remarried by then. Those were days when poets were free to write poems on public walls, like graffiti’s today. Lu wrote the first poem. Tang saw it and wrote the second in reply.)
钗頭鳳 唐琬 (1124-1156)
世情薄 人情惡
雨送黃昏花易落
曉風乾 淚痕殘
欲箋心事 獨語斜闌
難 難 難
人成各 今非昨
病魂常似秋千索
角聲寒 夜闌珊
怕人尋問 咽淚妝歡
瞞 瞞 瞞
Tune: Phoenix Hairpin Tang Wan (1124-1156) 江紹倫譯
Fairness has worn thin
Relations belligerent
Rain-filled eves hasten flowers to fall
Morning breezes fuss
Traces of tears fade
I wish to write you my feelings
Only to lean on rails alone
Hard Hard Hard
You and I have gone different ways
‘Tis no more like yesterday
Hanging tight my injured soul continues to groan
Time-horns their frigid notes blow
Nights persist refusing to grow old
To dispel any query
Tears swallowed I appear cheery
Hide Hide Hide
（淳熙己亥，自湖北漕移湖南，同官王正之置酒小山亭，為賦）
更能消 幾番風雨 匆匆春又歸去
惜春長怕花開早 何況落紅無數
春且住 見說道 天涯芳草無歸路
怨春不語 算隻有殷勤 畫檐蛛網 鎮日惹飛絮
長門事 準拟佳期又誤 蛾眉曾有人妒
千金縱買相如賦 脈脈此情誰訴
君莫舞 君不見 玉環飛燕皆塵土
閑愁最苦 休去倚危欄 斜陽正在 煙柳斷腸處
Tune: Catching Fish Xin Qi Ji (1140-1207) 江紹倫譯
(On transfer from Hubei to Hunan I wrote this as Wang Cheng Zhi feasted me)
How much more wind and rain can spring uphold
As it must forthwith recede when old
Lovers of spring are concerned seeing buds in hurry bloom
For early flowers usually shed their red petal too soon
Spring O Spring stay
I’ve often heard people say
Sweet grass roaming wide are doomed to go astray
Silently spring remains
When busy spiders weave webs on painted eaves day by day
To catch willow downs before they are blown away
What could a consort do
As nuptial dates are foregone when due
A favoured beauty will turn envy eyes naturally
Even if love could be bought by songs readily
To whom could she complain this overlooked affection
Keep your dance stationed
You must have seen
How beauties fat and slim to dust they turned in
Unjust sorrows are bitterest to swallow
Where the sun sets heart-broken are the willows
巴山楚水淒涼地
二十三年棄置身
懷舊空吟聞笛賦
到鄉翻似爛柯人
沉舟側畔千帆過
病樹前頭萬木春
今日聽君歌一曲
暫憑杯酒長精神
Echoing Bai Ju Yi on Our First Meeting Liu Yu Xi (772-842) 江紹倫譯
The south-west mountain and river region is desolation
Where in exile for twenty-three years I had lived in isolation
To mourn for departed friends I croon hearing but bamboo cries
On native land I existed like caste debris
A thousand sails had passed this sunken ship by
Ten thousand flowers had bloomed around this injured tree
As I hear you chant this comradeship melody today
I raise this cup to wish our good spirit will forever stay
哈巴湼拉舞曲 (法) 汉利.美尔压 与 路度维.亚里菲 普词
Mezzo-soprano aria from Bizet’s opera “Carmen”
比才歌剧”卡门”之女中音咏叹調
Sung by Julia Migenes-Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9iGv4sKNI
By Teresa Berganza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oby-hCgZLJc&feature=related
By Maria Callas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZRssq7UlM&NR=1
Habenera 哈巴湼拉舞
Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译
Quand je vous aimerai? 我何时会爱你？
Ma foi, je ne sais pas, 我的天，我怎知道。
Peut-être jamais, peut-être demain. 可能永不，可能明天。
Mais pas aujourd’hui, c’est certain 但不是今天，这是肯定的。
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle 爱情是一只反叛的雀鳥
que nul ne peut apprivoiser, 无人可馴服牠。
et c’est bien en vain qu’on l’appelle, 牠自承拒绝的话，
s’il lui convient de refuser. 你也只是空喚牠，
Rien n’y fait, menace ou prière, 用恐吓或祈求，都无法可行。
l’un parle bien, l’autre se tait: 口善词令者与另沈默寡言者之间
Et c’est l’autre que je préfère, 我喜欢另外那人，
Il n’a rien dit mais il me plaît. 他不做声，我却喜欢他。
L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! 爱情！爱情！爱情！爱情！
L’amour est enfant de Bohème, 爱情是吉卜赛孩子，
il n’a jamais, jamais connu de loi; 他永不，永不承认法规；
si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime: 你若不爱我，我爱你：
si je t’aime, prends garde à toi! 你若爱我，你就要自己提防！
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, 你若不爱我，
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime! 你若不爱我，我爱你！
Mais, si je t’aime, 但是，你若爱我，
Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi! 你若爱我，你就要自己提防！
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, 你若不爱我，
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime! 你若不爱我，我爱你！
Mais, si je t’aime, 但是，你若爱我，
Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi! 你若爱我，你就要自己提防！
L’oiseau que tu croyais surprendre 你以為已把那鳥兒捉住，
battit de l’aile et s’envola … 牠就展翅飞走…
l’amour est loin, tu peux l’attendre; 爱情远離，你可等待；
tu ne l’attends plus, il est là! 你不再等待牠的话，牠就出现！
Tout autour de toi, vite, vite, 环绕着你，快快的，快快的，
il vient, s’en va, puis il revient … 牠來，牠去，然後牠再來…
tu crois le tenir, il t’évite, 你以为把牠抓住，牠就逃去，
tu crois l’éviter, il te tient. 你以为逃避了牠，牠就抓住你。
L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! 爱情！爱情！爱情！爱情！
L’amour est enfant de Bohème, 爱情是吉卜赛孩子，
il n’a jamais, jamais connu de loi; 他永不，永不承认法规；
si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime: 你若不爱我，我爱你：
si je t’aime, prends garde à toi! 你若爱我，你就要自己提防！
楊柳青青江水準
聞郎江上唱歌聲
東邊日出西邊雨
道是無晴卻有晴
Nineteen Bamboo Song (I) Liu Yu Xi (772-842) 江紹倫譯
Meandering through green willows the river murmurs on
I hear you on your boat singing me a song
While the sun shines in the east the west is in rain
You my dear appears aloof but your love for me is plain