（古詞英譯）點絳脣 – 長安中作 （金）元好問

點絳脣 – 長安中作  （金）元好問

 

沙際春歸，綠窗猶唱留春住。

問春何處，花落鶯無語。

渺渺吟懷，漠漠煙中樹。

西樓暮，一簾疏雨，夢裏尋春去。

 

Tune: Rouged Lips — Writ in Chang’an

—— Yuan Hao-wen (Jin Dynasty)

 

Spring slippeth off the sandy shore,

My green-rimmed panes lament — feeling blue.

“Where art thou, mayst thou stay?” — a grieving coo,

Petals and warblers fall in silent rue.   

 

My chant flieth from my heart’s door

Into the brume-concealed woods — a dusky view,

Alone, the west chamber weepeth in sunset’s hue.

Drizzle at the window plaiteth its queue,

Woe is me — only in dream spring may re-shew.

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

22/04/2025

(To be revised)