杜甫: 登高/ du fu: a long climb

登高

杜甫

风急天高猿啸哀， 渚清沙白鸟飞回。

无边落木萧萧下， 不尽长江滚滚来。

万里悲秋常作客， 百年多病独登台。

艰难苦恨繁霜鬓， 潦倒新停浊酒杯。

　

a long climb

du fu

in a sharp gale from the wide sky apes are whimpering,

birds are flying homeward over the clear lake and white sand,

leaves are dropping down like the spray of a waterfall,

while i watch the long river always rolling on.

i have come three thousand miles away. sad now with autumn

and with my hundred years of woe, i climb this height alone.

ill fortune has laid a bitter frost on my temples,

heart-ache and weariness are a thick dust in my wine.