Listen to this article五言律詩
杜荀鶴
春宮怨
早被嬋娟誤， 欲妝臨鏡慵。
承恩不在貌， 教妾若為容？
風暖鳥聲碎， 日高花影重。
年年越溪女， 相憶採芙蓉。
Five-character-regular-verse
Du Xunhe
A SIGH IN THE SPRING PALACE
Knowing beauty my misfortune,
I face my mirror with a sigh.
To please a fastidious emperor,
How shall I array myself?….
Birds flock and sing when the wind is warm,
Flower-shadows climb when the sun is high —
And year after year girls in the south
Are picking hibiscus, dreaming of love!
