薛涛·《赠远二首》英译

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芙蓉新落蜀山秋，锦字开缄到是愁。

闺阁不知戎马事，月高还上望夫楼。

二

扰弱新蒲叶又齐，春深花落塞前溪。

知君未转秦关骑，月照千门掩袖啼。

Two Poems for Someone Faraway    

Xue Tao

I     

Hibiscus newly fallen on the hills of Shu,

And grief arrives when the envelope’s unsealed.

A girl who does not know the affairs of war

Still climbs at full moon the mate-watching tower.     

II    

New rushes, though weak, show a steady green

When late-spring blossoms drop in frontier creeks.

Your steed, I know, has yet to round Qin forts:

My sleeve’s tear-soaked, the moon lights a thousand gates.