Tang poems and Song Ci

采桑子 欧阳修 群芳过后西湖好， 狼藉[1]残红。 飞絮濛濛。 垂柳阑干尽日风。 笙歌散尽游人去， 始觉春空。 垂下帘栊。 双燕归来细雨中。 注释： [1]狼藉：散乱的样子。 Gathering Mulberry Leaves (III) Ouyang Xiu All flowers have passed away, West Lake is quiet; The fallen blooms run riot. Catkins from willow trees Beyond the railings fly all day, fluffy in breeze. Flute songs no longer sung and sightseers gone, I begin to feel spring alone. Lowering the blinds in vain, I see a pair of swallows come back in the rain. 注释： The poet describes the pleasure of boating and drinking on the West Lake in the first two poems and the quietude of lonely spring in the third. 《采桑子·群芳过后西湖好》是宋代文学家欧阳修所作的组词《采桑子十首》的第四首。此词写暮春依栏观湖游兴之感，描写了颍州西湖暮春时节静谧清疏洒的风姿，词人在暮春美景中寄托闲适之情。上片写暮春之景，下片言众人归去之静。全词将西湖清空幽寂的春末境界表现得优美可爱，体现了对大自然和现实人生的无限热爱和眷恋。词以细雨双燕状寂寥之况，于落寞中尚有空虚之感，文字疏隽，感情含蓄。 “Gathering Mulberry Leaves (III) ” is the fourth song of “Ten Songs of Caisangzi” written by Ouyang Xiu, a writer of Song Dynasty. It describes the quiet and sparse style of the West Lake in Yingzhou in th...

采桑子 欧阳修 画船载酒西湖好， 急管繁弦， 玉盏催传， 稳泛平波任醉眠。 行云却在行舟下， 空水澄鲜[1]， 俯仰流连， 疑是湖中别有天。 注释： [1]空水澄鲜：语出谢灵运《登江中孤屿》：“云日相晖映，空水共澄鲜。”指天空与湖水都是澄清明净的。 Gathering Mulberry Leaves (II) Ouyang Xiu West Lake is fine for us in painted boat loaded with wine. From pipes and strings comes music fast; From hand to hand jade cups soon passed, Secure on calming waves, drunk we lie. Fleeting clouds seem to float beneath our moving boat. The sky seems near to the dinersnow. Looking up and below, we will not go away. It seems there’s in the lake another sky.