《乐府》·《艳歌行》英译

翩翩堂前燕，
冬藏夏来见。
兄弟两三人，
流宕在他县。

故衣谁当补，
新衣谁当绽？
赖得贤主人，
览取为吾绽。

夫婿从门来，
斜柯西北眄。
“语卿且匆眄，
水清石自见。”

石见何累累，
远行不如归。

Homesick

Flitting, flitting, the swallows before the hall;
In winter they vanish, in summer they return;
Yet I, with two brothers of my own,
Am still a wanderer in a strange land.

Who will patch my old clothes?
Who will stitch and mend for me?
The good woman of the house is kind,
She takes my clothes and mends them;

But her husband coming home,
Framed in the doorway, looks askance at me.
I tell him, "No call to look at me like that!
When a brook is clear the stones are seen."

My conscience is crystal clear.
Just let me end my wanderings and go home!

（杨宪益、戴乃迭 译）