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五言律詩 李商隱 涼思

客去波平檻, 蟬休露滿枝。
永懷當此節, 倚立自移時。
北斗兼春遠, 南陵寓使遲。
天涯占夢數, 疑誤有新知。

Five-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin THOUGHTS IN THE COLD

You are gone. The river is high at my door.
Cicadas are mute on dew-laden boughs.
This is a moment when thoughts enter deep.
I stand alone for a long while.
...The North Star is nearer to me now than spring,
And couriers from your southland never arrive --
Yet I doubt my dream on the far horizon
That you have found another friend.