七言絕句
劉禹錫
春詞
新妝宜面下朱樓, 深鎖春光一院愁。
行到中庭數花朵, 蜻蜓飛上玉搔頭。
Seven-character-quatrain
Liu Yuxi
A SPRING SONG
In gala robes she comes down from her chamber
Into her courtyard, enclosure of spring....
When she tries from the centre to count the flowers,
On her hairpin of jade a dragon-fly poises.