红豆词
滴不尽相思血泪抛红豆，
开不完春柳春花满画楼，
睡不稳纱窗风雨黄昏后，
忘不了新愁与旧愁，
咽不下玉粒金莼噎满喉，
照不见菱花镜里形容瘦。
展不开的眉头。
捱不明的更漏。
呀！
恰便似遮不住的青山隐隐，
流不断的流水悠悠。
Translated By Yang Xianyi & Dai Naidie
Like drops of blood fall endless tears of longing,
By painted pavilion grow willows and flowers untold;
Sleepless at night when wind and rain lash gauze windows,
She cannot forget her sorrows new and old;
Choking on rice like jade and wine like gold,
She turns from her wan reflection in the glass;
Nothing can smooth away her frown,
It seems that the long night will never pass;
Like the shadow of peaks, her grief is never gone;
Like the green stream it flows for ever on.
Translated By David Hawkes
Still weeping tears of blood about our separation:
Like red love-beans of my desolation.
Still blooming flowers I see outside my window growing.
Still awake in the dark I hear the wind a-blowing.
Still oh still I can’t forget those old hopes and fears.
Still can’t swallow food and drink, ’cos I’m choked with tears.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me it’s not true:
Do I look so thin and pale, do I look so blue?
Mirror, mirror, this long night how shall I get through?
Oh – oh – oh!
Blue as the mist upon the distant mountains,
Blue as the water in the ever-flowing fountains.
