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七言絕句 白居易 後宮詞

淚濕羅巾夢不成, 夜深前殿按歌聲。
紅顏未老恩先斷, 斜倚薰籠坐到明。

Seven-character-quatrain
Bai Juyi A SONG OF THE PALACE

Her tears are spent, but no dreams come.
She can hear the others singing through the night.
She has lost his love. Alone with her beauty,
She leans till dawn on her incense-pillow.