袁宏道·《竹枝词（一）》英译

龙洲江口水如空，龙洲女儿挟巨艟。

奔涛泼面郎惊否？看我船欹八尺风。

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Songs of the Bamboo Branches

(One Selection)

Yuan Hongdao

At the mouth of the Longzhou River the water looks like the sky:

here the women of Longzhou operate the great boats.

Waves splashing her face, one of them asks the traveller,

“Are you scared? Watch my boat list under eight feet of wind!”