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五言律詩 杜牧 旅宿

旅館無良伴, 凝情自悄然。
寒燈思舊事, 斷雁警愁眠。
遠夢歸侵曉, 家書到隔年。
滄江好煙月, 門繫釣魚船。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Mu A NIGHT AT A TAVERN

Solitary at the tavern,
I am shut in with loneliness and grief.
Under the cold lamp, I brood on the past;
I am kept awake by a lost wildgoose.
...Roused at dawn from a misty dream,
I read, a year late, news from home --
And I remember the moon like smoke on the river
And a fisher-boat moored there, under my door.