李商隐: 无题二首（之一）/ li shangyin: to one unnamed i

无题二首（之一）

李商隐

来是空言去绝踪， 月斜楼上五更钟。

梦为远别啼难唤， 书被催成墨未浓。

蜡照半笼金翡翠， 麝熏微度绣芙蓉。

刘郎已恨蓬山远， 更隔蓬山一万重。

　

to one unnamed i

li shangyin

you said you would come, but you did not, and you left me with no other trace

than the moonlight on your tower at the fifth-watch bell.

i cry for you forever gone, i cannot waken yet,

i try to read your hurried note, i find the ink too pale.

...blue burns your candle in its kingfisher-feather lantern

and a sweet breath steals from your hibiscus-broidered curtain.

but far beyond my reach is the enchanted mountain,

and you are on the other side, ten thousand peaks away.