张祜: 题金陵渡/ zhang hu: at nanjing ferry

题金陵渡

张祜

金陵津渡小山楼， 一宿行人自可愁。

潮落夜江斜月里， 两三星火是瓜州。

　

at nanjing ferry

zhang hu

this one-story inn at nanjing ferry

is a miserable lodging-place for the night --

but across the dead moon's ebbing tide,

lights from guazhou beckon on the river.