《玉阶怨》唐·李白 Lament of the Jade Stairs Li Bai [Tang Dynasty]

Original Text

玉阶生白露,夜久侵罗袜。
却下水晶帘,玲珑望秋月。

Annotated

This character-by-character annotation is adapted from Cai Zongqi’s “How to read Chinese poetry: a guided anthology”

Translation

Translation by David Hinton, 
from Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology


Night long on the jade staircase, white
dew appears, soaks through gauze stockings.
She lets down crystalline blinds, gazes out
through jewel lacework at the autumn moon.

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