Du Mu

    PARtING I

    S yet fourteen,

    tip of a cardamon-spray.

    On the breeze

    Every pearl-screen is open. But theres no one like her.

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    杜牧

    赠别之二

    多情却似总无情， 唯觉樽前笑不成。

    蜡烛有心还惜别， 替人垂泪到天明。

    Seven-cer-quatrain

    Du Mu

    Parting II

    how can a deep love seem deep love,

    smile, at a fare?

    Even the candle, feeling our sadness,

    eeps, as  long.

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    杜牧

    金谷园

    繁华事散逐香尘， 流水无情草自春。

    日暮东风怨啼鸟， 落花犹似坠楼人。

    Seven-cer-quatrain

    Du Mu

    thE GOLDEN VALLEY

    Stories of passion make s dust,

    Calm er, grasses unconcerned.

    At sunset, whe wind,

    Petals are falling like a girl s robe long ago.

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    李商隐

    夜雨寄北

    君问归期未有期， 巴山夜雨涨秋池。

    何当共剪西窗烛， 却话巴山夜雨时。

    Seven-cer-quatrain

    Li Shangyin

    NOtE ON A RAINY NIGO A FRIEND IN th

    You ask me w know.

    I dream of your mountains and autumn pools brimming all nighe rain.

    Orimming ogetern window?

    in the rain?

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    七言绝句

    李商隐

    寄令狐郎中

    嵩云秦树久离居， 双鲤迢迢一纸笔。

    休问梁园旧宾客， 茂陵秋雨病相如。

    Seven-cer-quatrain

    Li Shangyin

    A MESSAGE tO SECREtARY LINGhU

    I am far from tain, a long rees in Qin;

    And I send to you a message carried by two carp:

    -- Absent tumn from the Princes garden,

    t at Maoling sick in the rain.

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    七言绝句