046
七言古詩
陳子昂
登幽州台歌
前不見古人， 後不見來者；
念天地之悠悠， 獨愴然而涕下。
Seven-character-a-verse
Ziang
ON A GATE-TOWER AT YUZHOU
Where, before me, are the ages that have gone?
And where, behind me, are the ing geions?
I think of heaven ah, without limit, without end,
And I am all alone and my tears fall down.
047
七言古詩
李頎
古意
男兒事長征， 少小幽燕客，
賭勝馬蹄下， 由來輕七尺；
殺人莫敢前， 須如蝟毛磔。
黃雲隴底白雪飛， 未得報恩不能歸。
遼東小婦年十五，慣彈琵琶解歌舞，
今為羌笛出塞聲，使我三軍淚如雨。
Seven-character-a-verse
Li Qi
AN OLD AIR
There once was a ma on military missions,
A wanderer, from youth, on the You and Yan frontiers.
Uhe horses hoofs he would meet his foes
And, recklessly risking his seven-foot body,
Would slay whoever dared front
Those moustaches that bristled like porequills.
...There were dark clouds below the hills, there were white clouds above them,
But before a man has served full time, how he go back?
Iern Liao a girl was waiting, a girl of fifteen years,
Deft with a guitar, expert in dand song.
...She seems to be fluting, even now, a reed-song of home,
Filling every soldiers eyes with homesick tears.
048
七言古詩
李頎
送陳章甫
四月南風大麥黃， 棗花未落桐葉長。
青山朝別暮還見， 嘶馬出門思故鄉。
陳侯立身何坦蕩？ 虯須虎眉仍大顙。
腹中貯書一萬卷， 不肯低頭在草莽。
東門酤酒飲我曹， 心輕萬事皆鴻毛，
醉卧不知白日暮， 有時空望孤雲高。
長河浪頭連天黑， 津口停舟渡不得；
鄭國遊人未及家， 洛陽行子空嘆息。
聞道故林相識多， 罷官昨日今如何。
Seven-character-a-verse
Li Qi
A FAREWELL TO MY FRIEND ZHANGFU
In the Fourth-month the south wind blows plains of yellow barley,
Date-flowers have not faded yet and lakka-leaves are long.
The greehat we left at dawill see at evening,
While our horses whinny on the road, eager to turn homeward.
..., my friend, you have always been a great and good man,
With your dragons moustache, tigers eyebrows and your massive forehead.
In your bosom you have shelved away ten thousand volumes.
You have held your head high, never bowed it in the dust.
...After buying us wine and pledging us, here at the eastern gate,
And taking things as lightly as a wildgoose feather,
Flat you lie, tipsy, fetting the white sun;
But now and then you open your eyes and gaze at a high lone cloud.
...The tide-head of the lone river joins the darkening sky.
The ferryman beaches his boat. It has grown too late to sail.
And people on their way from g ot go home,
And people from Loyang sigh with disappoi.
...I have heard about the many friends around your wood land dwelling.
Yesterday you were dismissed. Are they your friends today?
049
七言古詩
李頎
琴歌
主人有酒歡今夕， 請奏鳴琴廣陵客。
月照城頭烏半飛， 霜凄萬樹風入衣；
銅爐華燭燭增輝， 初彈淥水後楚妃。
一聲已動物皆靜， 四座無言星欲稀。
清淮奉使千餘里， 敢告雲山從此始。
Seven-character-a-verse
Li Qi
A LUTE SONG
Our host, providing abundant wio make the night mellow,
Asks his guest from Yangzhou to play for us oe.
Toward the moon that whitens the city-wall, black crows are flying,
Frost is ohousand trees, and the wind blows through our clothes;
But a copper stove has added its light to that of flowery dles,
And the lute plays The Green Water, and then The Queen of Chu.
O has begun to play, there is no other sound:
A spell is on the ba, while the stars grow thin....
But thre