顾况: 宫词/ gu kuang: a palace poem

宫词

顾况

玉楼天半起笙歌， 风送宫嫔笑语和。

月殿影开闻夜漏， 水晶帘卷近秋河。

　

a palace poem

gu kuang

high above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven,

the palace-girls' gay voices are mingled with the wind --

but now they are still, and you hear a water-clock drip in the court of the moon....

they have opened the curtain wide, they are facing the river of stars.