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七言律詩 李商隱 無題之一

來是空言去絕蹤, 月斜樓上五更鐘。
夢為遠別啼難喚, 書被催成墨未濃。
蠟照半籠金翡翠, 麝熏微度繡芙蓉。
劉郎已恨蓬山遠, 更隔蓬山一萬重。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin TO ONE UNNAMED I

You said you would come, but you did not, and you left me with no other trace
Than the moonlight on your tower at the fifth-watch bell.
I cry for you forever gone, I cannot waken yet,
I try to read your hurried note, I find the ink too pale.
...Blue burns your candle in its kingfisher-feather lantern
And a sweet breath steals from your hibiscus-broidered curtain.
But far beyond my reach is the Enchanted Mountain,
And you are on the other side, ten thousand peaks away.