唐诗三百首英译 李端：听筝

五言绝句

李端

听筝

鸣筝金粟柱， 素手玉房前。

欲得周郎顾， 时时误拂弦。

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Five-character-quatrain

Li Duan

ON HEARING HER PLAY THE HARP

Her hands of white jade by a window of snow

Are glimmering on a golden-fretted harp ——

And to draw the quick eye of Chou Yu，

She touches a wrong note now and then.