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骆宾王（约640年—约684年），字观光，又称骆临海，婺州义乌人，中国唐代官员、文学家、诗人，初唐四杰之一。一生著作颇丰，他涤除六朝绮靡文风，革新初唐浮艳诗体，为盛唐文学兴盛拓开道路，在中国文学史上地位深远，广受后世推崇。
骆宾王7岁能诗，有神童之誉。约在唐高宗显庆（656年-661年）年间，为道王李元庆府属，后历仕朝中及四川。高宗永隆二年（681年）夏，贬临海丞。后人因之称其为“骆临海”。光宅元年（684年）九月，徐敬业（即李敬业）自称匡复府大将军，骆宾王为徐敬业起草《代李敬业传檄天下文》（即《讨武曌檄》），朝野震动。光宅元年十一月徐敬业兵败，骆宾王下落说法不一：一说兵败遇害，一说投江自尽，亦有传说其隐姓埋名、落发为僧。
本辑甄选骆宾王名篇诗作十四首，筛选标准：课本收录、历代诗选常选、大众熟知、文学地位高的千古传颂之作，如《咏鹅》童稚皆知，《帝京篇》铺陈盛世气象，《在狱咏蝉》寄寓高洁情怀。他以雄健笔力开创一代诗风，作品兼具个人抒怀与历史厚重感。译者遵循信达雅、功能对等、以诗译诗翻译准则，将这些经典译作英文，让唐诗走向世界，让不同语言的人们也能感受大唐的诗意与风骨。也成为中华文化出海最生动的注脚——骆宾王的诗作跨越时空，与世界共鸣。
- 《咏鹅》
鹅，鹅，鹅，曲项向天歌。
白毛浮绿水，红掌拨清波。
Ode to Geese
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Geese, geese, geese, they sing their lay,
Curved necks upraised to heaven's display.
White feathers float on emerald tide,
Red paddles stir clear waves with pride.
- 《于易水送人/于易水送别》
此地别燕丹，壮士发冲冠。
昔时人已没，今日水犹寒。
Farewell by River Yi
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Here Prince Dan saw his hero part,
His righteous wrath stirred hair o’er cap and heart.
That hero of old long faded away,
Yet River Yi still cold does stay.
- 《在狱咏蝉》
西陆蝉声唱，南冠客思侵。
那堪玄鬓影，来对白头吟。
露重飞难进，风多响易沉。
无人信高洁，谁为表予心。
校勘异文：
1）南冠客思侵，一作“南冠客思深”；
2）那堪玄鬓影，一作“不堪玄鬓影”；
Cicada Song in Prison
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Autumn winds bear cicada’s mournful strain,
Captive grief gnaws my weary heart in chain.
How bear thy dark wing’s shadowdrawethnigh,
While hoary locks chant sorrow’s lullaby.
Dew weighs thy wings, to soar thou canst not try,
Wild gusts drown low thy pure and piteous cry.
None will believe a heart so pure and bright—
Who pleads for me in this long captive night?
- 《从军行》
平生一顾念，意气溢三军。
野日分戈影，天星合剑文。
弓弦抱汉月，马足践胡尘。
不求生入塞，唯当死报君。
March to War
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
One royal glance makes all my life full prize,
Valor surges through all warrior eyes.
Wild sun splits spear-shafts' shade array,
Celestial stars trace sword script's display.
Bow drawn full curves like Han moon’s round glow,
Hooves trample dust of barbarian foe.
I crave no safe return through border gate—
Die for my lord, that is my fate.
5.《送郑少府入辽共赋侠客远从戎》
边烽警榆塞，侠客度桑乾。
柳叶开银镝，桃花照玉鞍。
满月临弓影，连星入剑端。
不学燕丹客，空歌易水寒。
To Magistrate Zheng Bound for Liao’s Frontier
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Beacon fires rouse elm-walled frontier ground,
Hero crossesSanggan’s misty bound.
Willow fronds part for silver arrow’s flight,
Peach bloom glints bright on jade saddle’s light.
Full moon molds bow’s curved shadow grand,
Rows of stars rest on sword’s sharp hand.
I'll not ape Dan's knight who mourned by Yi's cold wave—
True glory lies in triumph, not an early hero’s grave.
校勘：
1）桑乾：异体作“干”，古籍通假，文档用“桑乾”（底本规范写法）正确；
2）空歌，一作“徒歌”
6.《夕次蒲类津》
二庭归望断，万里客心愁。
山路犹南属，河源自北流。
晚风连朔气，新月照边秋。
灶火通军壁，烽烟上戍楼。
龙庭但苦战，燕颔会封侯。
莫作兰山下，空令汉国羞。
注释：“燕颔”指下巴如燕颌般方正饱满的贵相，典出《后汉书・班超传后汉书》，喻威猛将才与封侯之运。
Night Mooring atPuleiFord
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Two northern courts lie lost to homesick gaze,
Ten thousand li of woe my heart weighs.
Mountain paths still stretch toward southern land,
Rivers arise and northward expand.
Night winds bear cold from northern waste,
New moon sheds light on frontier autumn’s haste.
Camp fires link ramparts row on row,
Beacon smoke ascends the watchtower slow.
Fight hard at Khagan’s dragon hall,
Your jaw of hawk shall win lordship all.
Linger not where Orchid Hill stands in fame,
Lest we bring dishonor to our Han name.
Note：jaw of hawk (swallow's chin) refers to a square, full lower jaw as an auspicious physiognomic sign of martial prowess and feudal ennoblement, originating from the tale of Ban Chao in the Book of Later Han.
7.《宿温城望军营》
虏地寒胶折，边城夜柝闻。
兵符关帝阙，天策动将军。
塞静胡笳彻，沙明楚练分。
风旗翻翼影，霜剑转龙文。
白羽摇如月，青山断若云。
烟疏疑卷幔，尘灭似销氛。
投笔怀班业，临戎想顾勋。
还应雪汉耻，持此报明君。
Viewing the Camp from Wencheng at Dusk
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Frost cracks bow-glue on foe’s cold northern plain,
Night watch drums echo o’er walled domain.
Royal war-tokens guard the palace gate,
Heaven’s decrees stir generals to wait.
Hush falls the waste, and barbarian flutes resound,
Pale silk banners spread o’er sand’s pale ground.
Wind stirs the flags like bird-wings wide unfurled,
Frosted swords twist with dragon carvings pearled.
White plumes wave soft as moonbeams mild,
Green hills cut short like mist-clouds wild.
Thin smoke seems folded tapestry’s fold,
Dust fades away, all strife grown cold.
I cast my brush, Ban's western conquests fire my brain,
Amid the host, I think of Gu's old martial reign.
Wipe clean all shame of Han’s old wounded pride,
Bear forth my sword for my wise king beside.
8.《渡瓜步江》
捧檄辞幽径，鸣榔下贵洲。
惊涛疑跃马，积气似连牛。
月迥寒沙净，风急夜江秋。
不学浮云影，他乡空滞留。
校勘：
榔：异体“桹”，文档“鸣榔”为规范底本用字；
贵洲：一作“贵州”（“洲”指水中小岛，“州”为行政区划，古籍中二字常混用）
CrossingGuabuRiver
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
I bear royal writ and leave my quiet glen,
Oars beat the tide down Guizhou’s fen.
Wild surges leap like chargers unconfined,
Thick vapors coil like oxen intertwined.
Far moon shines bright on cold clean sandy shore,
Sharp winds sweep autumn o’er night river’s floor.
I'll not, like drifting clouds, leave but a trace,
Nor linger long in this strange foreign place.
9.《春夜韦明府宅宴得春字》
酌桂陶芳夜，披薜啸幽人。
雅琴驯鲁雉，清歌落范尘。
宿云低迥盖，残月上虚轮。
幸此承恩洽，聊当故乡春。
校勘：
1）薜：异体 “薛”，底本作“披薜”，文档用字正确；
2）迥：古俗写“逈”，文档用简化规范“迥”。
Spring FeastatPrefect Wei’s Mansion, Rhyme “Spring”
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Cinnamon wine sweetens this fragrant night,
In ivy robes, a hermit whistles his delight.
Gentle lute calms pheasants of old Lu’s ground,
Clear ballads shake Fan’s dust all around.
Lingering clouds hang low like wide pavilion’s dome,
Half-moon climbs high its empty silver loom.
Blest by such favor, my heart finds its ease—
This feast feels like my homeland's vernal breeze.
10.《送别》
寒更承夜永，凉夕向秋澄。
离心何以赠，自有玉壶冰。
A Parting Lay
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Cold night bells toll through hours long and thin,
Cool eveunfurlsclear autumn’s quiet din.
What gift can soothe a heart torn far apart?
My pure soul glows like ice in jade jar.
11.《秋夜送阎五还润州》
通庄抵旧里，沟水泣新知。
断云飘易滞，连露积难披。
素风啼迥堞，惊月绕疏枝。
无力励短翰，一举送离思。
校勘：迥堞：“迥”古俗写“逈”，文档用简化规范“迥”。
Sending Yan Fifth Back toRunzhou, Autumn Night
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Wide roads lead back to thy ancestral home,
Brook waters weep for new friends forced to roam.
Torn clouds drift slow, reluctant to part ways,
Thick dews pile high, too dense for sun to raise.
Pale winds sigh loud o’er distant wall’s tall crest,
Startled moon circles thin boughs unblest.
My frail pen lacks the strength to ease this pain—
One verse alone bears all my parting strain.
12.《浮槎》
昔负千寻质，高临九仞峰。
真心凌晚桂，劲节掩寒松。
忽值风飙折，坐为波浪冲。
摧残空有恨，拥肿遂无庸。
渤海三千里，泥沙几万重。
似舟飘不定，如梗泛何从。
仙客终难托，良工岂易逢。
徒怀万乘器，谁为一先容。
校勘：
1）槎：异体“楂”，文档《浮槎》标题、正文用字符合底本；
2）飙：异体“飇”，文档采用规范简体字飙
The Driftwood Raft
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Once I bore worth of thousand fathoms tall,
Stood high o’er peaks nine ren deep in thrall.
My true heart outshone late cassia bloom,
Firm virtue shamed cold pine’s enduring gloom.
Sudden gales snapped my trunk — a shattering blow,
Then raging billows charged and swept me low.
Broken and scarred, my grief shall never cease,
Knotted and misshapen, fit for no man’s peace.
Three thousand li of Bohai’s salt flood spread,
Ten thousand layers of silt and mud o’erhead.
Like ship unanchored, drifting without mark,
Like reed-stem tossed, lost in the dark.
No immortal guest shall rest upon my side,
Few skilled craftsmen my hidden worth can bide.
I bear the frame for an emperor's grand design—
But who shall recommend this lonely line?
13.帝京篇（一名《上吏部侍郎帝京篇》）
山河千里国，城阙九重门。
不睹皇居壮，安知天子尊。
皇居帝里崤函谷，鹑野龙山侯甸服。
五纬连影集星躔，八水分流横地轴。
秦塞重关一百二，汉家离宫三十六。
桂殿嶔岑对玉楼，椒房窈窕连金屋。
三条九陌丽城隈，万户千门平旦开。
复道斜通鳷鹊观，交衢直指凤凰台。
剑履南宫入，簪缨北阙来。
声名冠寰宇，文物象昭回。
钩陈肃兰戺，璧沼浮槐市。
铜羽应风回，金茎承露起。
校文天禄阁，习战昆明水。
朱邸抗平台，黄扉通戚里。
平台戚里带崇墉，炊金馔玉待鸣钟。
小堂绮帐三千户，大道青楼十二重。
宝盖雕鞍金络马，兰窗绣柱玉盘龙。
绣柱璇题粉壁映，锵金鸣玉王侯盛。
王侯贵人多近臣，朝游北里暮南邻。
陆贾分金将宴喜，陈遵投辖正留宾。
赵李经过密，萧朱交结亲。
丹凤朱城白日暮，青牛绀幰红尘度。
侠客珠弹垂杨道，倡妇银钩采桑路。
倡家桃李自芳菲，京华游侠盛轻肥。
延年女弟双飞入，罗敷使君千骑归。
同心结缕带，连理织成衣。
春朝桂尊尊百味，秋夜兰灯灯九微。
翠幌珠帘不独映，清筝宝瑟自相依。
且论三万六千是，宁知四十九年非。
古来荣利若浮云，人生倚伏信难分。
始见田窦相倾夺，俄闻卫霍有功勋。
未厌金陵气，先开石椁文。
朱门无复张公子，灞亭谁畏李将军。
相顾百龄皆有待，居然万化咸应改。
桂枝芳气已销亡，柏梁高宴今何在。
春去春来苦自驰，争名争利徒尔为。
久留郎署终难遇，空扫相门谁见知。
当时一旦擅豪华，自言千载长骄奢。
倏忽抟风生羽翼，须臾失浪委泥沙。
黄雀徒巢桂，青蝇遂点瑕。
黄金销铄素丝变，一贵一贱交情见。
红颜宿昔白头新，脱粟布衣轻故人。
故人有湮沦，新知无意气。
灰死韩安国，罗伤翟廷尉。
已矣哉，归去来！
马卿辞蜀多文藻，扬雄仕汉乏良媒。
三冬自矜诚足用，十年不调几邅回。
汲黯薪逾积，孙弘阁未开。
谁惜长沙傅，独负洛阳才。
注释：1)天禄阁＝西汉未央宫藏秘校书之阁，以瑞兽“天禄”为名，后成为“皇家典籍之府、词臣文翰之所”的文学符号。
2)“青楼”指华丽楼阁，非妓院。
勘校：
1）“嶔”，一作“阴”；“岑”，一作“崟”，文档“桂殿嶔岑对玉楼”，用字正确；
2）三条九陌丽城隈：底本“丽”，一作“凤”；
3）铜羽应风回：底本“羽”，一作“雀”；
4）鳷鹊：专用古鸟名，无替代字
Ode to the Imperial Capital
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
A realm of hills and streams a thousand li wide,
Nine-fold gate towers o’er the walls abide.
Who sees not this imperial city's grand display,
Shall never know the sovereign's sacred sway.
The palace rests amid Xiao-Han’s mountain vale,
Noble fiefs spread where Dragon Hill prevails.
Five planets glide along their starry track,
Eight rivers split the earth’s wide axis black.
One hundred two strong passes guard Qin’s old bound,
Thirty-six detached palaces Han once found.
Cassia halls stand tall‘gainst jade towers fair,
Peppered chambers link gold chambers everywhere.
Nine lanes and three broad roads line the city’s bend,
Ten thousand gates unroll at morning’s end.
Covered walkways slant to Magpie View Hall,
Cross avenues lead straight to Phoenix Tower tall.
Sword-girt lords stride south palace halls to tread,
Cap-strung nobles throng north gate’s stony bed.
Their fame outshines all realms beneath the sky,
Art and rites mirror heaven’s glowing eye.
The royal constellation guards orchid steps,
Scholar markets float by jade pond’s soft depths.
Bronze vane spins to greet the breeze's flight,
Golden stems rise to catch the dew's pure light.
Scrolls are reviewed inTianlu's ancient tower,
War drills unfold by Kunming’s watery bower.
Vermilion mansions match the Terrace Hall,
Yellow gates lead to kinsmen’s homes one and all.
Terrace and kin-houses bear lofty wall’s tall crest,
Gold feasts and jade fare wait the bell’s loud rest.
Three thousand chambers draped in silk’s fine screen,
Twelve tiers of green mansions line the thoroughfare clean.
Gem canopies, carved saddles, horses bound in gold,
Orchid windows, carved pillars with jade dragons rolled.
Jade beam inscriptions glow on plastered wall,
Gold and jade chime loud where lords and nobles thrall.
All lords and nobles serve the crown full near,
Roam north lanes dawn, south neighbors ere sheer.
Lu Jia shared gold to feast his friends with cheer,
Chen Zun cast bolts to hold his guests all year.
Clans Zhao and Li walk side by side each day,
Xiao and Zhu’s bond shall never fade away.
Scarlet phoenix walls fade in the sunset haze,
Oxen and dark carriages cut red dust’s blaze.
Knights hurl pearl pellets‘neath willow trees long,
Maids swing silver hooks down mulberry throng.
Courtesan blooms spread fragrance far and wide,
Light steeds and fine robes grace the knightly tide.
Yannian’s sister flies to palace halls high,
Lady Luofu rides forth with a thousand knights nigh.
Heart-knot ribbons bind two souls as one,
Twin boughs woven into garment’s soft spun.
Spring dawn’s cassia wine holds flavors manifold,
Autumn eve’s orchid lamps cast faint light untold.
Jade blinds and green curtains glow side by side,
Clear zither and lute each other’s tune abide.
We count life's days—thirty-six thousand bright,
Yet forty-nine years of wrong fade from our sight.
Glory and gain drift thin like mist of yore,
Weal and woe twist tight, hard to separate more.
Tian and Dou strove hard for power’s vain prize,
Soon Wei and Huo won martial glory’s rise.
Ere Jinling’s royal aura ebbed away,
Stone tomb texts laid the dead’s fate bare to stay.
Vermilion gates hold no young noble’s trace,
Who fears General Li by Ba’s pavilion space?
A hundred years wait every mortal soul,
All mortal shapes shall shift, transform, roll.
Cassia bloom’s sweet scent has faded all apart,
Where stands the grand feast at Cypress Beam’s heart?
Spring comes and goes, swift as a fleeting breath,
To strive for fame and gain is labor vain till death.
Long lodged in minor clerkship, luck I lack,
I sweep lord's gates, yet none my worth will back.
Once men bore pomp and splendor for a day,
Deeming their pride unbroken through a thousand stay.
Wings caught storm wind to soar up heaven’s height,
Then lost their tide, sunk low in mud’s dark blight.
Sparrows nest‘mid cassia boughs in vain,
Blue flies mar pure jade with a tiny stain.
Gold melts away, white silk takes altered hue,
Rank high or low reveals a friendship true.
Maids once fair grow grey ere new friends stand,
Plain grain and rough cloth make old friends disband.
Old comrades sink to dark forgotten gloom,
New acquaintances lack loyal heart’s perfume.
Han Anguo’s hopes burnt dead to ash and dust,
Judge Zhai trapped in net of slander’s unjust trust.
Enough! I turn my face to homeward ways!
Sima left Shu with verse that still amaze,
Yang Xiong served Han, no patron's kindly gaze.
Three winters' toil—I thought my worth would show,
Ten years unraised, through frost and sun I go.
Ji An's wood piled high, unused, in vain,
Sun Hong's gate barred—who lets me in from rain?
Who mourns for Changsha's exiled, unbefriended?
I bear Luoyang’s wit, yet none commended.
Note: 1)TianluTower (the Pavilion of Heavenly Blessing): the Han court’s secret library and collation hall, later a poetic symbol for imperial erudition and the librarian-official’s seat.
2) green mansions refer to ornate, multi-story pavilions, not brothels.
14.《畴昔篇》
少年重英侠，弱岁贱衣冠。
既托寰中赏，方承膝下欢。
遨游灞水曲，风月洛城端。
且知无玉馔，谁肯逐金丸。
金丸玉馔盛繁华，自言轻侮季伦家。
五霸争驰千里马，三条竞骛七香车。
掩映飞轩乘落照，参差步障引朝霞。
池中旧水如悬镜，屋里新妆不让花。
意气风云倏如昨，岁月春秋屡回薄。
上苑频经柳絮飞，中园几见梅花落。
当时门客今何在，畴昔交朋已疏索。
莫教憔悴损容仪，会得高秋云雾廓。
淹留坐帝乡，无事积炎凉。
一朝披短褐，六载奉长廊。
赋文惭昔马，执戟叹前扬。
挥戈出武帐，荷笔入文昌。
文昌隐隐皇城里，由来奕奕多才子。
潘陆词锋骆驿飞，张曹翰苑纵横起。
卿相未曾识，王侯宁见拟。
垂钓甘成白首翁，负薪何处逢知己。
判将运命赋穷通，从来奇舛任西东。
不应永弃同刍狗，且复飘飖类转蓬。
容鬓年年异，春华岁岁同。
荣亲未尽礼，徇主欲申功。
脂车秣马辞乡国，萦辔西南使邛僰。
玉垒铜梁不易攀，地角天涯眇难测。
莺啭蝉吟有悲望，鸿来雁度无音息。
阳关积雾万里昏，剑阁连山千种色。
蜀路何悠悠，岷峰阻且修。
回肠随九折，迸泪下双流。
披猖千里路，号恸九重幽。
魑魅年年市，欃枪夜夜浮。
五丁卓荦多奇力，四士英灵用文艺。
石镜霞铺晓色开，金轮火伏寒光闭。
青岩碧洞经朝雨，隔岫穿云采薇蕨。
相将携手陟危岑，谁能坐守穷檐拙。
一朝燕使召，万里赴京华。
夙昔承明谒，连镳入帝家。
高门待驷马，广陌走香车。
少年识事浅，不知交道难。
一言芬若桂，四海重如兰。
既逢知己赏，遂得借羽翰。
骤升高位，渐历清班。
初从太学步，俄忝奉宸班。
出入承明庐，周旋侍从间。
承恩方窃禄，遇祸忽摧颜。
锒铛拘北寺，缧绁系南冠。
慎罚宁凭两造辞，严科直挂三章律。
邹衍衔悲系燕狱，李斯抱怨拘秦桎。
不应白发顿成丝，直为黄沙暗如漆。
紫禁终难叫，朱门不易排。
惊魂闻叶落，危魄逐轮埋。
霜威遥有厉，雪枉遂无阶。
含冤欲谁道，饮气独居怀。
忽闻驿使发关东，传道天波万里通。
涸鳞去辙还游海，幽禽释网便翔空。
舜泽尧曦方有极，谗言巧佞傥无穷。
谁能跼迹依三辅，会就商山访四翁。
勘校：
1）邅回：邅，异体“亶”；
2）锒铛、缧绁：均无通用替代字；
3）欃枪：星象专用古字，底本不变；
4）邛僰：西南古地名，无俗写偏差；
Ode to Bygone Days
By LuoBinwang(Early Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
In youth I cherished knightly spirit’s fire,
Scorned empty official robes and desire.
I roamed the world to taste all mortal grace,
And dwelt at home to share my sire’s warm face.
Wandered bends of Ba River’s winding tide,
Moon and wind adorn Luoyang’s far side.
Though no jade feasts my humble board supply,
I spurn the chase of golden pellets high.
Golden shot and jade fare deck vain pomp’s display,
I deemed Shi Chong’s wealth trivial each day.
Five lords raced forth swift steeds of thousand mile,
Three broad lanes thronged with scented carriages file.
Carriages glint‘neath sunset’s fading glow,
Silken screens unfold to catch dawn’s soft flow.
Old pond’s still water hangs like polished glass,
Maids’new outshines all blossoms of spring grass.
My stormy valor faded like yesterday’s haze,
Spring and autumn wheel through countless days.
Willow catkins drift through royal gardens wide,
Plum petals fall in courtyard side by side.
Where roam the guests who lingered at my gate?
Old friends grow distant, scarce to congregate.
Let not grief wear my visage thin and pale,
Clear autumn winds shall lift the mist’s dark veil.
I lingered long within the capital’s bound,
Cold heat of idle years my spirit wound.
One day I donned rough cloth of humble grade,
Six long years served the palace corridor’s shade.
My verse falls short of Sima Xiangru’s art,
I grip spear, sigh for Yang Xiong’s lonely heart.
I bore forth blade from war tent’s martial space,
Carried my brush to Wenchang’s scholarly place.
Wenchang Hall lies hid‘mid palace walls tall,
Bright bards and scribes have thronged it one and all.
Pan Yue and Lu Ji’s sharp verse flew far and fast,
Zhang Heng and Cao Zhi’s pen power held vast.
No prime minister my name deigned to know,
No noble lord would rank my merit so.
I’d fish till white hairs crown my weary head,
Carry firewood, no friend my grief to read.
Fate deals out woe and weal as heaven’s plan,
Strange misfortune drives me west, drives me east again.
I’ll not be cast aside like dog of straw,
Drift loose like thistle down through wind’s raw law.
My sideburns shift their hue each passing year,
Spring bloomunfurlsthe same soft charm clear.
I’ve not fulfilled rites to honor my kin,
I yearn to serve my lord, my merit win.
I grease my cart, feed steeds, bid hometown adieu,
Wind reins southwest to Qiong-Bo’s far view.
Jade Mound and Bronze Beam stand steep to climb,
Earth’s farthest edge lies wrapped in mist sublime.
Orioles sing, cicadas hum sad longing lay,
Wild geese pass by, no letter on their way.
Yangguan’s thick fog shrouds ten thousand li’s space,
Jiange’s linked peaks wear a thousand hues’grace.
Shu’s road stretches endless, slow to trod,
Min mountain peaks block every forward rod.
My heart twists tight through nine sharp bends’sharp pain,
Two streams of bitter tears pour down my cheek’s plain.
I roamed a thousand li in wild unrest,
Wept loud in prison’s dark deep quiet nest.
Spirits haunt the market year on year,
Comet of ill omen glides through night’s sphere.
Five giants hewed the mountains with their might,
Four Shu sages shone with poetic light.
Stone Mirror spreads rosy dawn’s soft open haze,
Golden wheel hides cold fire’s dim silent blaze.
Blue cliffs and green caves soak in morning rain,
I pluck bracken fern through cloud and mountain chain.
Hand in hand we climb the precipice steep,
Who’d sit confined in hovel’s dull dark deep?
One day a royal envoy summoned me forth,
I journey ten thousand li to court’s north.
Once I knelt in audience with royal grace,
Rode side by side to palace’s high place.
Tall gates await four-horse carriages grand,
Wide avenues bear scented carts every land.
In youth my judgment lacked the world’s sharp sight,
I knew not how hard true friendship’s fight.
One kind word smells like cassia bloom’s sweet breath,
My heart holds strangers dear as orchid’s wealth.
When one true patron praised my verse and wit,
I spread my wings and soared where high winds fit.
I rose swift high to rank of noble name,
Stepped through all pure court posts of royal fame.
First trod the Imperial Academy’s floor,
Soon served close by the sovereign’s palace door.
In and out of audience halls I paced,
Served as attendant in all courtly grace.
Blest by royal favor, I drew small pay,
Sudden disaster stole my joy away.
Iron chains confined me to North Temple jail,
Captive’s rope bound my limbs without avail.
Shall judgment rest on both accuser’s word?
Harsh penal codes hang sharp as tempered sword.
Zou Yan wept grief confined in Yan’s dark cell,
Li Si endured Qin’s prison’s cruel spell.
My black hair turned to silver thread in haste,
The yellow sand like pitch my sight encased.
I cry for justice‘neath the palace wall,
Scarlet noble gates refuse my call.
I hear leaf fall, my startled soul doth shake,
My faint ghost fears the grave’s cold silent wake.
Frost’s harsh wrath reaches far across the land,
No stair to clear my wrongs, my grief to stand.
To whom pour forth my unjust suffering’s tale?
I swallow rage, trapped in my heart’s dark veil.
Then post messengers came forth from eastern pass,
Word spread the royal mercy flows ten thousand mass.
Dry fish leave rut to swim in ocean wide,
Caged bird breaks net to soar through heaven’s tide.
Shun and Yao’s kind grace extends its bound,
Yet slanderous tongues spread lies the world around.
Who dares crawl low beneath the capital's roof?
I'll seek four white-haired sages—that's my proof.
在齐梁文学到盛唐文学的发展脉络里，骆宾王是承前启后的关键过渡人物。骆宾王一生处于理想与现实、怀才与不遇的矛盾冲突中，造成了他耿介正直的性格和积极进取的人生态度，他的诗文饱含充沛激情与鲜明的自我意识，这也是其诗作具备刚健风骨的核心根源。从“鹅，鹅，鹅”的童趣天真，到“昔时人已没，今日水犹寒”的苍凉慨叹，骆宾王的诗篇承载着中国人的情感与智慧。当这些诗句被译为英文，本辑便化作一座桥梁，连接古今，沟通中外。愿这来自东方的诗意之光，继续照亮人类共同的精神家园。
