But what am I good for in that world， with my few white hairs？....
As bent and decrepit as you are，I am ashamed to thank you，
When you caution me thatI may encounter thunderbolts.
刘长卿
长沙过贾谊宅
三年谪宦此栖迟， 万古惟留楚客悲。
秋草独寻人去后， 寒林空见日斜时。
汉文有道恩犹薄， 湘水无情吊岂知？
寂寂江山摇落处， 怜君何事到天涯？
Liu Changqing
On Passing Jia Yis House in Changsha
Here， where you spent your three years exile，
To be mourned in Chu ten thousand years，
Can I trace your footprint in the autumn grass-
Or only slanting sunlight through the bleak woods？
If even good Emperor Wen was coldhearted，
Could you hope that the dull river Xiang would understand you，
These desolate waters， these taciturn mountains，
When you came， like me， so far away？
钱起
赠阙下裴舍人
二月黄鹂飞上林， 春城紫禁晓阴阴。
长乐钟声花外尽， 龙池柳色雨中深。
阳和不散穷途恨， 霄汉长怀捧日心。
献赋十年犹未遇， 羞将白发对华簪。
Qian Qi
To My Friend at the Capital Secretary Pei
Finches flash yellow through the Imperial Grove
Of the Forbidden City， pale with spring dawn；
Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss
And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows；
But spring is no help to a man bewildered，
Who would be like a cloud upholding the Light of Heaven，
Yet whose poems， ten years refused， are shaming
These white hairs held by the petalled pin.
韦应物
寄李儋元锡
去年花里逢君别， 今日花开又一年。
世事茫茫难自料， 春愁黯黯独成眠。
身多疾病思田里， 邑有流亡愧俸钱。
闻道欲来相问讯， 西楼望月几回圆。
Wei Yingwu
To My Friends Li Dan and Yuanxi
We met last among flowers， among flowers we parted，
And here， a year later， there are flowers again；
But， with ways of the world too strange to foretell，
Spring only brings me grief and fatigue.
I am sick， and I think of my home in the country-
Ashamed to take pay while so many are idle.
...In my western tower， because of your promise，
I have watched the full moons come and go.
韩翃
同题仙游观
仙台初见五城楼， 风物凄凄宿雨收。
山色遥连秦树晚， 砧声近报汉宫秋。
疏松影落空坛静， 细草香闲小洞幽。
何用别寻方外去？ 人间亦自有丹丘。
Han Hong
Inscribed in the Temple of the Wandering Genie
I face， high over this enchanted lodge， the Court of the Five Cities of Heaven，
And I see a countryside blue and still， after the long rain.
The distant peaks and trees of Qin merge into twilight，
And Had Palace washingstones make their autumnal echoes.
Thin pineshadows brush the outdoor pulpit，
And grasses blow their fragrance into my little cave.
...Who need be craving a world beyond this one？
Here， among men， are the Purple Hills.
皇甫冉
春思
莺啼燕语报新年， 马邑龙堆路几千。
家住层城邻汉苑， 心随明月到胡天。
机中锦字论长恨， 楼上花枝笑独眠。
为问天戎窦车骑， 何时返旆勒燕然。
Huangfu Ran
Spring Thoughts
Finchnotes and swallownotes tell the new year....
But so far are the Town of the Horse and the Dragon Mound
From this our house， from these walls and Han Gardens，
That the moon takes my heart to the Tartar sky.
I have woven in the frame endless words of my grieving....
Yet this petalbough is smiling now on my lonely sleep.
Oh， ask General Dou when his flags will come home
And his triumph be carved on the rock of Yanran mountain！
卢纶
晚次鄂州
云开远见汉阳城， 犹是孤帆一日程。
估客昼眠知浪静， 舟人夜语觉潮生。
三湘愁鬓逢秋色， 万里归心对月明。
旧业已随征战尽， 更堪江上鼓鼙声。
Lu Lun
A NightMooring at Wuchang
Far off in the clouds stand the walls of Hanyang，
Another days journey for my lone sail....
Though a rivermerchant ought to sleep in this calm weather，
I listen to the tide at night and voices of the boatmen.
...My thin hair grows wintry， like the triple Xiang streams，
Three thousand miles my heart goes， homesick with the moon；
But the war has left me nothing of my heritage-
And oh， the pang of hearing these drums along the river！
刘禹锡
西塞山怀古
王浚楼船下益州， 金陵王气黯然收。
千寻铁锁沈江底， 一片降旛出石头。
人世几回伤往事， 山形依旧枕寒流。
从今四海为家日， 故垒萧萧芦荻秋。
Liu Yuxi
Thoughts of Old Time at West Fort Mountain
