贺双卿·《春从天上来·梅花》英译

自笑恹恹，

费半晌春忙，

去省花尖。

玉容憔悴，

知为谁添？

病来分与花嫌。

正腊衣催洗，

春波冷，

素腕愁沾。

硬东风、

枉寒香一度，

新月纤纤。

多情满天坠粉，

偏只累双卿，

梦里空拈。

与蝶招魂，

替莺拭泪，

夜深偷诵《楞严》。

有伤春佳句，

酸和苦，

生死俱甜。

祝花年，

向观音稽首，

掣遍灵签。

Chun cong tianshang lai:

Plum Blossom

He Shuangqing

I laugh at my own sickliness.

I took a moment during the busy spring season

To visit the flowers’ pointed buds.

The haggardness of my jade-like face

Has increased, but for whom?

Since my illness I have grown estranged from the flowers.

Now winter clothes have to be washed,

Yet spring waves are cold,

And my white wrists are soaked in grief.

A stubborn east wind

Uselessly blows cold fragrance for a moment

Beneath a wisp of a new moon.

With so much feeling it drops powder to fill the sky,

But it only brings trouble to Shuangqing,

In dreams trying to grasp it in vain.

I summon its soul with the butterflies

And wipe off tears for the orioles;

Deep in the night I secretly chant the Lankavatara.

I have beautiful lines lamenting spring,

Pain and bitterness,

Life and death are all sweet.

I pray for the flowers’ years.

Bowing to Guanyin, ¹

I pull out all the divining slips.

1. Guanyin is the goddess of mercy and compassion in popular Buddhism.

（Grace S. Fong 译）