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七言律詩 李商隱 春雨

悵臥新春白袷衣, 白門寥落意多違。
紅樓隔雨相望冷, 珠箔飄燈獨自歸。
遠路應悲春晼晚, 殘宵猶得夢依稀。
玉璫緘札何由達, 萬里雲羅一雁飛。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin SPRING RAIN

I am lying in a white-lined coat while the spring approaches,
But am thinking only of the White Gate City where I cannot be.
...There are two red chambers fronting the cold, hidden by the rain,
And a lantern on a pearl screen swaying my lone heart homeward.
...The long road ahead will be full of new hardship,
With, late in the nights, brief intervals of dream.
Oh, to send you this message, this pair of jade earrings! --
I watch a lonely wildgoose in three thousand miles of cloud.