管道升·《寄子昂君墨竹》英译

夫君去日竹初栽，

竹已成林君未来。

玉貌一衰再难好，

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On a Painting of the Bamboo to Zi’ang (1)

Guang Daosheng

The day that you left,

we planted the bamboo roots.

Now the tall bamboo grove sways

in the wind, there’s still no sign

of your coming back.

Growing old, I won’t blossom

into a jade-like beauty for one more time,

not like the flowers which, after falling,

will burgeon afresh.

(1)Guan’s husband Zhao Ziang was a high official as well as a celebrated painter and calligrapher in the Song dynasty. This was a poem Guan wrote on a painting of bamboo sent to her husband.