鱼玄机·《寄子安》英译

醉别千卮不浣愁，离肠百结解无由。

蕙兰销歇归春圃，杨柳东西绊客舟。

聚散已悲云不定，恩情须学水长流。

有花时节知难遇，未肯厌厌醉玉楼。

To Tzu-an

Yü Hsüan-chi

A thousand goblets at the farewell feast

can’t dilute my sorrow,

my heart at separation is twisted

in a hundred unyielding knots.

Tender orchids wilt and wither,

return to the garden of spring;

willow trees, here and there,

moor traveler’ boats.

In meeting and parting I lament

the unsettled clouds;

love and affection should learn from the river

in flowing on and on.

I know we won’t meet again

in the season of blossoms,

and I won’t sit by quietly

drunk in my chamber.

（Jan W. Walls 译）

To an Intimate

Yu Xuanji

No wine can wash away

the sorrow of separating;

nothing can unloose the knot

tied in my heart by parting.

The fragrant orchids, though faded away,

will return in the gardens of spring;

the willows to the east and west

furnish many a leisure-boat mooring.

Gathering only to disband is sad in itself already,

for clouds can never stay;

feeling should learn fluidity

a flowing river’s way.

In the season of blossoming flowers,

we cannot meet, can we?

So I won’t go on drinking languidly

in a land of fantasy.

（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）

Sent to Zi’an

Yu Xuanji

Drunk at parting: a thousand goblets of wine won’t wash away my sorrow;

My heart in separation tied into a hundred knots no way to undo them.

Orchids fade away and die in the spring garden,

While willows, east and west, detain the traveler’s boat.

Meeting, parting already I grieve at the drifting cloud,

My love must imitate the ever-flowing river.

When flowers are in season, I know that we can’t meet,

But I’m not yet willing to stay languidly drunk in my jade tower.

（Jennifer Carpenter 译）