王国维·《欲觅》英译

欲觅吾心已自难，更从何处把心安？

诗缘病辍弥无赖，忧与生来讵有端。

起看月中霜万瓦，卧闻风里竹千竿。

沧浪亭北君迁树，何限栖鸦噪暮寒！

To Try to Find

Wang Kuo-wei

To try to find my heart, it’s hard enough;

How could I hold it in tranquility?

Illness impedes poetry, and all I feel is useless;

Sorrow comes from birth, not without cause.

I rise to watch, in the moonlight, frost on ten thousand roof tiles;

I lie down hearing, in the wind, a thousand spears of bamboo.

North of Ts’ang-lang Pavilion, a huge date tree (1)—

Ceaseless, the cawing of crows in the evening cold.