鱼玄机·《酬李郢夏日钓鱼回见示》英译

住处虽同巷，经年不一过。

清词劝旧女，香桂折新柯。

道性欺冰雪，禅心笑绮罗。

迹登霄汉上，无路接烟波。

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Yu Xuanji

Though we live on the same street,

you haven’t passed by all year.

Fine poetry pleased your former lady,

distinguished laurels, your new degree.

A Taoist nature cares not at all

for the cold of ice and snow,

a Buddhist heart laughs aloud

at ostentatious silk;

since you rose to rank at court,

we have no chance to meet—

having climbed the lofty sky,

no more is there a way to receive

the misty waves below.

（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）