白居易诗
Poems of Bai Juyi
Index
宿湖中
Spending the Night on the Lake
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水天向晚碧沉沉 树影霞光重叠深 浸月冷波千顷练 苞霜新橘万株金 |
Eveningwards and heaven and lake dark blue. Rosy light layers deep the long tree shadows. A thousand cold billows rise to immerse the moon. Frost on new orange buds, like a forest of gold. |
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幸无案牍何妨醉 纵有笙歌不废吟 十只画船何处宿 洞庭山脚太湖心 |
Fortunate to have no work, I am free to drink. Even though there is music, I won't bother to sing. Ten painted boats here. So where will I sleep. At the foot of the mountains far out on the lake. |
-- 白居易
废话
It is 825. Bai Juyi is living in Luoyang with a big income and no work to do. So he is out on some ornamental lake in the hills, drinking and listening to the music of other parties who float around on painted boats. Tough life. But soon he will be made Governor of Suzhou and will have to work long, hard hours for the first time in his life.