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七言律詩 錢起 贈闕下裴舍人

二月黃鸝飛上林, 春城紫禁曉陰陰。
長樂鐘聲花外盡, 龍池柳色雨中深。
陽和不散窮途恨, 霄漢長懷捧日心。
獻賦十年猶未遇, 羞將白髮對華簪。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Qian Qi TO MY FRIEND AT THE CAPITAL SECRETARY PEI

Finches flash yellow through the Imperial Grove
Of the Forbidden City, pale with spring dawn;
Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss
And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;
But spring is no help to a man bewildered,
Who would be like a cloud upholding the Light of Heaven,
Yet whose poems, ten years refused, are shaming
These white hairs held by the petalled pin.