王国维·《蝶恋花·阅尽天涯离别苦》英译

阅尽天涯离别苦，

不道归来，

零落花如许。

花底相看无一语，

绿窗春与天俱暮。

待把相思灯下诉，

一缕新欢，

旧恨千千缕。

最是人间留不住，

朱颜辞镜花辞树。

Tune: “Butterflies Lingering over Flowers”

Wang Kuo-wei

I have tasted the bitterness of parting at world’s end.

Little was I aware, before my return,

How the flowers would be scattered.

When we look at each other without a word beneath the flowers,

Spring, by the green window, fades with the passing day.

I would like to tell of my feelings by the lamp light:

One skein of new joy,

A thousand skeins of old regret.

Things hardest to keep in this human world—