青山横北郭 白水繞東城
此地一為别 孤蓬萬里征
浮雲游子意 落日故人情
揮手自兹去 萧萧班馬鳴
Farewell My Friend 江紹倫 譯
Green mountains range across the northern sky
White water girds the eastern hometown
Here we each other say goodbye
Alone you will freely drift as light as thistledown
Howe’er you may roam following the floating clouds
At every sunset your tender heart will feel affectionately bound
Let’s wave so you can get on your way
Await not your steed so impatiently neigh
对酒不觉暝，
落花盈我衣。
醉起步溪月，
鸟还人亦稀。
Self-Abandonment
tr. Arthur Waley
I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
Drunken I rose and walked to the moonlit stream;
The birds were gone, and men also few.
平林漠漠烟如织
寒山一带伤心碧
暝色入高楼
有人楼上愁
玉阶空伫立
宿鸟归飞急
何处是归程
长亭连短亭
Pu Sa Man Li Bai
Translated by Chen Yaoguo (1965 from Ottawa)
A misty forest weaves far and wide
to cold teal mountains, my heartbreaks aside.
Darkness befalls a mansion tall,
wherein melancholy is stored.
Standing alone on steps of jade,
birds flutter fast to roost ending the day.
Where is my way home?
I’d falter long and short along pausing zones.
床前明月光 疑是地上霜
舉頭望明月 低頭思故鄉
On a Quiet Night 江紹倫 譯
Moonlight floods on ground in front of my bed
Could it be frost that had spread
Raising my head I see the moon so bright
Lowering it I yearn to reach home tonight
Gertrude Chan – November 20, 2009 at 10:27 am
Before my bed moon beams sprawl
Like frost on the ground aglow
Lifting my head I look at the bright moon
Lowering my head I pine for home
ykchan – November 29, 2009 at 9:55 am
Evening Reflections–Li Bai
Claire-de-lune shines on my bed,
as ground frost seemingly shed.
Looking up at the bright moon,
into a nod in yearning for home me lets.