白居易诗
Poems of Bai Juyi
Index
春尽日宴罢感事独吟
The Spring Banquet is Over and I Feel Like Crying
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五年三月今朝尽 客散筵空独掩扉 病共乐天相伴住 春随樊子一时归 |
Fifth year, third month, this morning, done. Guests leave, hall empty, alone behind the doors. Since you, too, are feeling bad, I'll keep you company. Spring has passed us by. Perhaps it will return. |
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闲听莺语移时立 思逐杨花触处飞 金带缒腰衫委地 年年衰瘦不胜衣 |
We'll stand here a moment and hear the warblers sing. Our thoughts can follow poplar blossoms, falling everywhere. That gold belt hangs too low. Your sleeves are kind of loose. Every passing year we dwindle. Our clothes don't fit us now. |
-- 白居易
废话
It is 840 and Bai is sixty-eight years old. His wife is in her fifties. And he is definitely speaking to his wife here. No one speaks to his girlfriend this way. You grow old with your wife. You pretend to be young for your girlfriend. These things never change. Bai will live six more years. His wife will outlive him.