苏曼殊·《本事诗》英译

乌舍零波肌似雪，亲持红叶索题诗。

还卿一钵无情泪，恨不相逢未剃时。

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春雨楼头尺八箫，何时归看浙江潮？

芒鞋破钵无人识，踏过樱花第几桥。

Episodic Poems (1)

Su Manshu

She is a goddess with a light step and fair skin;

A red leaf in her hand, she asks me to inscribe it with verse.

To her I can offer only an alms-bowl of callous tears;

How I wish to have met her before being tonsured!

I hear a Japanese flute complaining in rain on a tower

And long for the time to return and see the Qiantang bore.

In sandals, with a monk’s alms-bowl, unknown to all,

I do not know how many bridges I have crossed among cherry flowers.

(1)    Taken from a series of ten poems written in 1909 in Japan.