Where,groupbygroup,wearethrowingdiceinthelightofacrimsonlamp; Tilltherollingofadrum,alas,callsmetomyduties AndImountmyhorseandrideaway,likeawater-plantcutadrift. -------------------------------------
Where, group by group, we are throwing dice in the light of a crimson lamp;
Till the rolling of a drum, alas, calls me to my duties
And I mount my horse and ride away, like a water-plant cut adrift.
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七言律诗
李商隐
隋宫
紫泉宫殿锁烟霞, 欲取芜城作帝家。
玉玺不缘归日角, 锦帆应是到天涯。
于今腐草无萤火, 终古垂杨有暮鸦。
地下若逢陈后主, 岂宜重问后庭花?
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Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
THE PALACE OF THE SUI EMPEROR
His Palace of Purple Spring has been taken by mist and cloud,
As he would have taken all Yangzhou to be his private domain
But for the seal of imperial jade being seized by the first Tang Emperor,
He would have bounded with his silken sails the limits of the world.
Fire-flies are gone now, have left the weathered grasses,
But still among the weeping-willows crows perch at twilight.
...If he meets, there underground, the Later Chen Emperor,
Do you think that they will mention a Song of Courtyard Flowers?
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七言律诗
李商隐
无题之一
来是空言去绝踪, 月斜楼上五更钟。
梦为远别啼难唤, 书被催成墨未浓。
蜡照半笼金翡翠, 麝熏微度绣芙蓉。
刘郎已恨蓬山远, 更隔蓬山一万重。
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Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED I
You said you would come, but you did not, and you left me with no other trace
Than the moonlight on your tower at the fifth-watch bell.
I cry for you forever gone, I cannot waken yet,
I try to read your hurried note, I find the ink too pale.
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