李商隐: 相见时难别亦难/ li shangyin: unbearable to meet as well as to depart

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李商隐

相见时难别亦难， 东风无力百花残。

春蚕到死丝方尽， 蜡炬成灰泪始乾。

晓镜但愁云鬓改， 夜吟应觉月光寒。

蓬莱此去无多路， 青鸟殷勤为探看。

　

to one unnamed

li shangyin

time was long before i met her, but is longer since we parted,

and the east wind has arisen and a hundred flowers are gone,

and the silk-worms of spring will weave until they die

and every night the candles will weep their wicks away.

mornings in her mirror she sees her hair-cloud changing,

yet she dares the chill of moonlight with her evening song.

...it is not so very far to her enchanted mountain

o blue-birds, be listening!-bring me what she says!