A fragment moon hangs from the bare tung tree
The water clock runs out, all is still
Who sees the dim figure come and go alone
Misty, indistinct, the shadow of a lone wild goose?

Startled, she gets up, looks back
With longing no one sees
And will not settle on any of the cold branches
Along the chill and lonely beach

缺月挂疏桐
漏断人初静
谁见幽人独往来
缥缈孤鸿影

惊起却回头
有恨无人省
拣尽寒枝不肯栖
寂寞沙洲冷

The moon -- how old is it?
I hold the cup and ask the clear blue sky
But I don't know, in palaces up there
When is tonight?
If only I could ride the wind and see --
But no, jade towers
So high up, might be too cold
For dancing with my shadow --
How could there, be like here?

Turning in the red chamber
Beneath the carved window
The brightness baffles sleep
But why complain?
The moon is always full at parting
A man knows grief and joy, separation and reunion
The moon, clouds and fair skies, waxing and waning --
And old story, this struggle for perfection!
Here's to long life
This loveliness we share even a thousand miles apart!

明月几时有
把酒问青天
不知天上宫阙
今夕是何年
我欲乘风归去
又恐琼楼玉宇
高处不胜寒
起舞弄轻影
何似在人间

转朱阁
低绮户
照无眠
不应有恨
何事长向别时圆
人有悲欢离合
月有阴晴圆缺
此事古难全
但愿人长久
千里共婵娟

Like a flower, but not a flower
No one cares when it falls
And lies discarded at the roadside
But though
Unmoved, I think about
The tangle of wounded tendrils
Lovely eyes full of sleep
About to open,yet
Still in dreams, following the wind ten thousand miles
In search of love
Startled, time and again, by the oriole's cry

Do not pity the flower that flies off
Grieve for the western garden
Its fallen red already beyond mending --
Now, after morning rain
What's left?
A pond full of broken duckweed
If the three parts of spring
Two turn to dust
One to flowing water
Look --
These are not catkins
But drop after drop of parted lover's tears

似花还似非花
也无人惜从教坠
抛家傍路
思量却是
无情有思
萦损柔肠
困酣娇眼
欲开还闭
梦随风千里
寻郎去处
又还被莺呼起

不恨此花飞坠
恨西园
落红难缀
晓来雨过
遗踪何在
一池苹碎
春色三分
二分尘土
一分流水
细看来
不是杨花
点点是离人泪

The Ynagtze flows east
Washing away
A thousand ages of great men
West of the ramparts --
People say --
Are the fables Red Cliffs of young Chou of the Three Kingdoms
Rebellious rocks pierce the sky
Frightening waves rip the bank
The backwash churns vast snowy swells --
River and mountains like a painting
how many heroes passed them, once ...

Think back to those years, Chou Yu --
Just married to the younger Chiao --
Brave, brilliant
With plumed fan, silk kerchief
Laughed and talked
While masts and oars vanished to flying ash and smoke!
I roam through ancient realms
Absurdly moved
Turn gray too soon --
A man's life passes like a dream --
Pour out a cup then, to the river, and the moon

大江东去
浪涛尽
千古风流人物
故垒西边
人道是
三国周郎赤壁
乱石穿空
惊涛拍岸
卷起千堆雪
江山如画
一时多少豪杰

遥想公瑾当年
小乔初嫁了
雄姿英发
羽扇纶巾
谈笑间
樯橹灰飞烟灭
故国神游
多情应笑我
早生华发
人生如梦
一尊还酹江月

Ten years living and dead have drawn apart
I do nothing to remember
But I can not forget
Your lonely grave a thousand miles away ...
Nowhere can I talk of my sorrow --
Even if we met, how would you know me
My face full of dust
My hair like snow?

In the dark of night, a dream: suddenly, I am home
You by the window
Doing your hair
I look at you and can not speak
Your face is streaked by endless tears
Year after year must they break my heart
These moonlit nights?
That low pine grave?

十年生死两茫茫
不思量
自难忘
千里孤坟
无处话凄凉
纵使相逢应不识
尘满面
鬓如霜

夜来幽梦忽还乡
小轩窗
正梳妆
相对无言
唯有泪千行
料得年年断肠日
明月夜
短松冈