王国维·《采桑子·高城鼓动》英译

高城鼓动兰釭灺，

睡也还醒，

醉也还醒，

忽听孤鸿三两声。

人生只似风前絮，

欢也飘零，

悲也飘零，

都作连江点点萍。

Tune: “Song of Picking Mulberry”

Wang Kuo-wei

The drum sounds from the high city wall as he lampwick burns out.

Asleep, yet awake;

Drunk, yet sober—

Suddenly I hear the two or three notes of a wild goose’s lone cry.

Life is no more than willow catkins in the wind:

Joy in fragments,

Grief in fragments—

All turn to patches of duckweed spreading on the river.