鱼玄机·《早秋》英译

嫩菊含新彩，远山闲夕烟。

凉风惊绿树，清韵入朱弦。

思妇机中锦，征人塞外天。

雁飞鱼在水，书信若为传。

Early Autumn

Yu Xuanji

Tender young chrysanthemums

are freshly tinged with color;

distant mountains, far away,

lock in the evening haze.

A cool breeze startles verdant trees,

pure melody’s found in a crimson lute.

The lot of the longing wives

is the brocade in their looms;

the lot of the men at war

is the cold of foreign skies.

Though they try to correspond,

how will their letters arrive?

（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）