失眠二首（Two Poems on Sleeplessness）

其一

赏花不识名，聆曲梦魂萦。

平生遗恨事，把琴难共鸣。

 

其二

倒床呼走牛，酣息似无愁。

孤枕西邑翁，一宵霜满头。

 

Two Poems on Sleeplessness

I
I gaze at flowers, yet no names I know;
I hear faint music—dreams cling, soft and low.
Of all life’s regrets, this one cuts most deep:
To hold a lute, yet fail to make it weep.

II
I slump to bed, call oxen to my plow—
Sound asleep, as if free from sorrow’s throe.
Yet here, an old man on his lonesome pillow,
Finds one night’s frost has turned his whole head snow.

 

 

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