七言絕句
杜牧
金谷園
繁華事散逐香塵, 流水無情草自春。
日暮東風怨啼鳥, 落花猶似墜樓人。
Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
THE GARDEN OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY
Stories of passion make sweet dust,
Calm water, grasses unconcerned.
At sunset, when birds cry in the wind,
Petals are falling like a girl s robe long ago.