University of Virginia Library

五言律詩 杜甫 春宿左省

花隱掖垣暮, 啾啾棲鳥過。
星臨萬戶動, 月傍九霄多。
不寢聽金鑰, 因風想玉珂。
明朝有封事, 數問夜如何。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu A NIGHT-VIGIL IN THE LEFT COURT OF THE PALACE

Flowers are shadowed, the palace darkens,
Birds twitter by for a place to perch;
Heaven's ten thousand windows are twinkling,
And nine cloud-terraces are gleaming in the moonlight.
...While I wait for the golden lock to turn,
I hear jade pendants tinkling in the wind....
I have a petition to present in the morning,
All night I ask what time it is.