爆竹聲中一歲除
春風送暖入屠蘇
千門萬户瞳瞳日
總把新桃換舊符

Lunar New Year’s Day          江紹倫譯

On a sound of firecrackers we bid farewell to the year old
As vernal breezes warm up the Tu Su brew we welcome the new
The sun shines visiting thousands of family doors
Every door displays new couplets to celebrate the new year for all

Tune: Bells Drowned By Rain                      江紹倫譯

寒蟬凄切        Cicadas tuned dreary in the cold
對長亭晚        We sojourned at the pavilion till the evening is old
驟雨初歇        Showers over

都門帳飲無緒      Under the city gate we drank in dull mood
留戀處                 Lingering
蘭舟催發             Your departing boat tooted 

執手相看淚眼     Hand in hand we gazed at each other in teary eyes
竟無語凝噎         With congealed sobs words come not to say good bye

念去去                    Ahead as you go
千里烟波                A thousand li of waves and mist lie
暮靄沉沉楚天闊     Clouds are heavy in the boundless southern sky

多情自古傷離别   Those deep in love must suffer parting sorrow since days of old
更那堪冷落清秋節 Especially parting in the autumn cold

今宵酒醒何處       Where will I be after tonight when becoming sober
楊柳岸                  On banks of willows
曉風残月              Moon resigning in day-break breezes

此去經年                   With you away for years
應是良辰好景虚設     All bright days and pleasing scenery here will exist in vain

便縱有千種風情       If I should ever coquette in a thousand ways
更與何人說             To whom should I show my feelings anyway

佇倚危樓風细细
望極春愁
黯黯生天際
草色烟光残照里
無言誰會憑闌意。

擬把疏狂圖一醉
對酒當歌
强樂還無味

衣带漸寬終不悔
為伊消得人憔悴

Tune: Phoenix Perch on Parasol                   江紹倫譯

I stand alone on the balcony in light breeze
To confront spring sorrows
Parting grief loom in the horizon a dark gleam
At sunset smoke rises where grass is green
With no word to tell who would know why on these rails I lean

‘Tis my intend to dare getting drunk in a wink
For cups of wine I sing
Strained mirth will relief not bring

I regret not my waist-band loosens as it must be
Languish I accept when it comes to loving thee

對瀟瀟暮雨灑江天  一番洗清秋

漸霜風凄緊        關河冷落    殘照當樓

是處紅衰綠減      苒苒物華休  惟有長江水  無語東流

不忍登高臨遠      望故鄉渺邈  歸思難收

嘆年來蹤跡        何事苦淹留

想佳人  妝樓顒望  誤幾回  天際識歸舟

爭知我  倚闌干處  正恁凝愁

Tune: Eight Beats From Ganzhou Music    江紹倫譯

Against the incessant late showers river and sky stand
Awashed instantly autumn looks new again

Gradually fierce gales blow dreary and chill
Few souls stay by the hill or rill
In my lonely lodge only fading sunlight remains still

All vegetations green or red have withered
No more splendour
Only currents of the Yangtzi River
Flow steadily east silent as ever

I dare not ascend high to look far and around
In search of my native land lost where to be found
Homesickness abound

To my roving I sigh
Lingering here and there I know not why

My beloved must be watching from her bower with longing eyes
How oft had she mistaken a returning boat on horizon to be mine

Little would she know
I am also watching from this balcony rail
Pinning for her my heart frozen in sorrow

檻菊愁煙蘭泣露
羅幕輕寒
燕子雙飛去
明月不諳離恨苦
斜光到曉穿朱戶

昨夜西風凋碧樹
獨上高樓
望盡天涯路
欲寄彩箋無尺素
山長水遠知何處

Tune: Butterfly Loves Flower                       江紹倫譯

Orchids tear dews while asters in doleful misty grey
Silk curtains could not allay this cold
Pairing swallows take hasty leave
The moon could not know our parting grief
It shines till dawn its slanting light strayed into crimson windows

Western gales withered all green trees last night
Alone I ascended the tall tower
To search all the roads under the sky
How I wish to send you my darling a comforting message on ornate paper
Alas where would it go amid long mountain ranges and a boundless sea

一曲新詞酒一杯
去年天氣舊亭台
夕陽西下幾時回 

無可奈何花落去
似曾相識燕歸來
小園香徑獨徘徊

Tune: Silky Sand Brook                    江紹倫譯

I wrote a new poem and drank a cup of wine
In the old pavilion last year’s weather remained fine
When will you come back to celebrate the sun its ray decline

Helplessly I see flowers fade and fall
Delightful these swallows I seem to know visit again my wall
Round the fragrant path in my cosy garden I loiter alone

细雨濕流光
芳草年年與恨長
回首鳳樓無限事茫茫
鸞镜鴛衾两斷腸

魂夢任悠揚
睡起楊花满繡床
薄幸不來門半掩斜陽
負你残春淚幾行

Southern Country Song                     江紹倫譯

Drizzles keep the running time glide at ease
Like sorrows and undulating grass thrive my years increase
Encaged here in this bower so much past happiness now distant
The love-bird quilt and mirror remind me of only heart breaks this instant

In dreams my soul goes anywhere I please
Whence awake I only find catkins covering my bed a million pieces
My fickle lover visits me no more my rift door invites the setting sun
For our vanishing spring I owe you tears in many a stream run

幾日行雲何處去
忘却歸来
不道春將暮
百草千花寒食路
香車系在誰家樹

眼倚樓频獨語
雙燕來時
陌上相逢否
撩亂春愁如柳絮
悠悠夢里無尋處

Tune: Butterfly Love Flower             江紹倫譯

Where do you roam like floating clouds day after day
Remembering not home
Nor spring growing old
A hundred grass ten thousand flowers line up the Cold-Meal roads
At whose residence your carriage and horse the trees hold

Drown in tears I watch from the balcony muttering regret
Visits a pair of swallows
I wonder if they had seen you along the road
They stir up love longings spreading like flakes of willow
Even in blurry dreams I could not find you high or low