Tang poems and Song Ci

《离思五首》是唐代诗人元稹创作的一组悼亡绝句。诗人运用“索物以托情”的比兴手法，以精警的词句，赞美了夫妻之间的恩爱，抒写了诗人对亡妻韦丛忠贞不渝的爱情和刻骨的思念。 离思五首（其四） 元稹 曾经沧海 [1] 难为水， 除却巫山不是云。 取次 [2] 花丛懒回顾， 半缘修道半缘君。 注释： [1] 沧海：大海。 [2] 取次：任意；随便。 Thinking of My Dear Departed （Ⅳ） Yuan Zhen No water’s wide enough when you have crossed the sea; No cloud is beautiful but that which crowns the peak. I pass by flowers which fail to attract poor me Hail for your sake and half for Taoism I seek. The poet no longer loves nature as before after the death of his dear wife but tries to seek consolation from Taoism. 《离思五首》是唐代诗人元稹创作的一组悼亡绝句。诗人运用“索物以托情”的比兴手法，以精警的词句，赞美了夫妻之间的恩爱，抒写了诗人对亡妻韦丛忠贞不渝的爱情和刻骨的思念。 Five Songs of Separation is a set of poems written by Yuan Zhen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, to mourn the death of his wife. The poet employs the simile technique of “to set up emotions with things”, and uses a precise and alert phrase to praise the love between husband and wife, and express the poet’s undying love and bitter longing for his late wife Wei Cong.

六年春遣怀八首（其二） 元稹 检 [1] 得旧书三四纸， 高低阔狭粗成行。 自言并食 [2] 寻常事， 唯念山深驿路长。 注释： [1] 检：翻检。 [2] 并食：两天只吃一天的粮食。 Elegy on My Deceased Wife （Ⅱ） Yuan Zhen I find three or four sheets of your letters fine; The words of your handwriting often go out of line. You cared not for your hunger every other day, If I was fed in deep mountains on my long way. The poet remembers his wife who would suffer hunger every other day to provide for him on his way in the mountains. 《六年春遣怀八首》是唐代诗人元稹创作的一组七言绝句。 元稹在元和六年（811年）春为其原配妻子韦丛写的一组悼亡诗。这八首诗写得曲折有致，情真意切，沉痛感人。 The Eight Poems for the Spring of the Sixth Year is a set of seven lines composed by Yuan Zhen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poems were written by Yuan Zhen in the spring of the sixth year of Yuanhe (811) to mourn the death of his wife, Wei Cong. These eight poems are written in a twisted, sincere and painful manner.

遣悲怀三首 元稹 （其二） 昔日戏言身后意， 今朝都到眼前来。 衣裳已施行看尽 [1] ， 针线犹存未忍开。 尚想旧情怜婢仆， 也曾因梦送钱财。 诚知此恨 [2] 人人有， 贫贱夫妻百事哀。 （其三） 闲坐悲君 [3] 亦自悲， 百年 [4] 都是几多时。 邓攸无子寻知命 [5] ， 潘岳悼亡 [6] 犹费辞。 同穴窅冥何所望 [7] ， 他生缘会更难期 [8] 。 唯将终夜长开眼 [9] ， 报答平生 [10] 未展眉 [11] 。 注释： [1] 行看尽：即将送完了。 [2] 此恨：指夫妻死别之情。 [3] 君：指韦氏。 [4] 百年：指一生。 [5] “邓攸”句：邓攸。字伯遣，西晋时人，曾任河东太守，在战乱中舍弃自己的儿子而保全侄子，后来终生无子，当时人有“天道无知，使伯道无儿”之叹。知命，认识到是命中注定的。 [6] 潘岳悼亡：西晋诗人潘岳写了很悲痛的悼亡诗，但死去的妻子也不会知道。这也指诗人自己。 [7] “同穴”句：同穴，指夫妻合葬。窅（yǎo）冥，深远幽暗的样子。何所望，意思是洞穴窅冥，死后合葬，悲哀之情难以相通。 [8] “他生”句：来生。缘会，姻缘遇合。期。期待。 [9] “唯将”句：唯将，只将。长开眼，指彻夜不眠。 [10] 平生：指韦氏生前。 [11] 未展眉：指韦氏生前一直过着清苦的生活，很少欢悦。 To My Deceased Wife Yuan Zhen （Ⅱ） “What if one of us should die?” we said for fun one day; But now it has come true and passed before my eyes. I can’t bear to see your clothes and give them away; I seal your embroidery lest it should draw my sighs. Remembering your kindness, I’m kind to our maids; Dreaming of your bounty, I give bounties as before. I know there is no mortal but returns to the shades, But a poor couple like us...

重赠 [1] 乐天 元稹 休遣 [2] 玲珑 [3] 唱我诗， 我诗多是别君词。 明朝又向江头别， 月落潮平是去时。 注释： [1] 重赠：这首诗是为送别白居易而写的。在此之前元稹已写过一首《赠乐天》的诗，因此叫“重赠”。 [2] 休遣：别让。 [3] 玲珑：原诗题下作者自注云：“乐人商玲珑能歌，歌予数十诗。”商玲珑是白居易身边的乐工，善于歌唱。 Parting Again with Bai Juyi Yuan Zhen Don’t let the songstress sing my songs anew! Most of them are farewell poems for you. Tomorrow again we’ll part by riverside, Alas! At moonset when outflows the tide. The poet would not listen to farewell songs for they would bring to his mind farewells past and future. 《重赠》是唐代诗人元稹写给挚友白居易的一首七绝。此诗描写了元白两人赠别前的情景和对赠别时的想象，真挚地流露出作者对友人离去的依依惜别之情。全诗纯是口头语、眼前景，虽然语言浅显，内容单纯，但因为音韵上的反复，结构上的呼应，以及呼告语势与顶针修辞的运用，处处构成微妙的唱叹之致，产生一种萦回不已的余韵，生动而充分地表达了诗人的无限惋惜和惆怅之情。 The poem is a seven-part poem written by Yuan Zhen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, to his best friend Bai Juyi. The poem describes the scene before Yuan and Bai’s farewell and their imagination of the farewell, sincerely revealing the author’s feelings of regret for the departure of his friend. The poem is purely verbal and eye-catchi...

酬 [1] 乐天频梦微之 [2] 元稹 山水万重 [3] 书断绝， 念君怜我梦相闻。 我今因病魂颠倒， 唯梦闲人不梦君。 注释： [1] 酬：应和；酬答。 [2] 微之：元稹，字微之。 [3] 山水万重：形容路途非常遥远。 Dream and No Dream Yuan Zhen Letters can’t pass over thousands of mountains and streams. How much I thank you for you have sent me your dreams. I’m sorry that in illness I can’t tell old friends from new; I dream of indifferent people, but not you. The poet who has not dreamed of his friend sends him as much friendship as his friend who has. 《酬乐天频梦微之》是唐代诗人元稹所写的一首七言绝句。此诗约写于元和十二年（817）前后。当时元稹贬通州司马，白居易谪江州司马，一南一北，相隔数千里之遥。加之“山水万重”，音信不通，只有梦中相见。白居易多次梦见元稹，并作诗相告。这首诗就是酬答乐天“频梦”之作。 志同道合、交谊深厚的朋友，总希望经常见面，如果分开了，就希望经常通信，而如果山长水远，连通信都不方便，那便只有梦中相见，以慰离怀了。白居易屡次梦见元稹，作诗相告，正表现了这种生活常情，如此诗前两句所写的。但元稹收到白居易这首诉说衷肠的诗篇的时候，正在病中。由于生病，精神就颠倒了。经常想念的好友不曾出现于梦中，而一向没有想到过的“闲人”却屡次在梦中出现，这就更使自己感到离群索居的悲痛了。以梦中相见代替实际相见，已令人感到惆怅，何况梦中也不曾相见。这是深入一层的写法。前两句属白，后两句属己，以白之频频梦己，与己之因病未尝梦白对照，事异情同。写入梦以见相思之切，人之所同；写不入梦而仍见相思之切，则是己之所独。这是此诗别开生面之处。 这首诗纯用白描，几乎没有设色布景，而人物形象生动，情调也感人肺腑。 The poem “Dream and No Dream” is a seven-line poem w...