Listen to this article五言古詩
王維
渭川田家
斜光照墟落， 窮巷牛羊歸。
野老念牧童， 倚杖候荊扉。
雉雊麥苗秀， 蠶眠桑葉稀。
田夫荷鋤立， 相見語依依。
即此羨閒逸， 悵然吟式微。
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
A FARM-HOUSE ON THE WEI RIVER
In the slant of the sun on the country-side,
Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;
And a rugged old man in a thatch door
Leans on a staff and thinks of his son, the herdboy.
There are whirring pheasants? full wheat-ears,
Silk-worms asleep, pared mulberry-leaves.
And the farmers, returning with hoes on their shoulders,
Hail one another familiarly.
…No wonder I long for the simple life
And am sighing the old song, Oh, to go Back Again!
