唐诗三百首英译 孟浩然：秦中感秋寄远上人

五言律诗

孟浩然

秦中感秋寄远上人

一丘尝欲卧， 三径苦无资。

北土非吾愿， 东林怀我师。

黄金燃桂尽， 壮志逐年衰。

日夕凉风至， 闻蝉但益悲。

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Meng Haoran

FROM QIN COUNTRY TO THE BUDDHIST PRIEST YUAN

How gladly I would seek a mountain

If I had enough means to live as a recluse！

For I turn at last from serving the State

To the Eastern Woods Temple and to you， my master.

……Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame，

My youthful desires have been burnt with the years-

And tonight in the chilling sunset-wind

A cicada， singing， weighs on my heart.