“鹅”鸣千古，诗耀四海——骆宾王诗歌名篇14首英译传世典藏集

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。

1. 《咏鹅》

鹅，鹅，鹅，曲项向天歌。

白毛浮绿水，红掌拨清波。

Odeto Geese

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby 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.

1. 《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。

Farewellby River Yi

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

HerePrince Dan saw his hero part,

Hisrighteous wrath stirred hair o’ercap and heart.

Thathero of old long faded away,
Yet River Yi still cold does stay.

1. 《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”；

CicadaSong in Prison

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Autumnwinds bear cicada’smournful strain,

Captivegrief gnaws my weary heart in chain.

Howbear thy dark wing’sshadow draweth nigh,

Whilehoary locks chant sorrow’slullaby.

Dewweighs thy wings, to soar thou canst not try,

Wildgusts drown low thy pure and piteous cry.

Nonewill believe a heart so pure and bright—
Who pleads for me in this long captive night?

1. 《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。

Marchto War

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Oneroyal glance makes all my life full prize,

Valorsurges through all warrior eyes.

Wildsun splits spear-shafts' shade array,

Celestialstars trace sword script's display.

Bowdrawn full curves like Han moon’sround glow,

Hoovestrample dust of barbarian foe.

Icrave no safe return through border gate—

Diefor 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。

ToMagistrate Zheng Bound for Liao’s Frontier

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Beaconfires rouse elm-walled frontier ground,

Herocrosses Sanggan’smisty bound.

Willowfronds part for silver arrow’sflight,

Peachbloom glints bright on jade saddle’slight.

Fullmoon molds bow’scurved shadow grand,

Rowsof stars rest on sword’ssharp hand.

I'llnot ape Dan's knight who mourned by Yi's cold wave—

Trueglory 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。

NightMooring at Pulei Ford

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Twonorthern courts lie lost to homesick gaze,

Tenthousand li of woe my heart weighs.

Mountainpaths still stretch toward southern land,

Riversarise and northward expand.

Nightwinds bear cold from northern waste,

Newmoon sheds light on frontier autumn’shaste.

Campfires link ramparts row on row,

Beaconsmoke ascends the watchtower slow.

Fighthard at Khagan’sdragon hall,

Yourjaw of hawk shall win lordship all.

Lingernot where Orchid Hill stands in fame,

Lestwe bring dishonor to our Han name.

Note：jaw of hawk (swallow's chin) refers to a square, fulllower jaw as an auspicious physiognomic sign of martial prowess and feudalennoblement, 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。

Viewingthe Camp from Wencheng at Dusk

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Frostcracks bow-glue on foe’scold northern plain,

Nightwatch drums echo o’erwalled domain.

Royalwar-tokens guard the palace gate,

Heaven’s decrees stir generals to wait.

Hushfalls the waste, and barbarian flutes resound,

Palesilk banners spread o’ersand’spale ground.

Windstirs the flags like bird-wings wide unfurled,

Frostedswords twist with dragon carvings pearled.

Whiteplumes wave soft as moonbeams mild,

Greenhills cut short like mist-clouds wild.

Thinsmoke seems folded tapestry’sfold,

Dustfades away, all strife grown cold.

Icast my brush, Ban's western conquests fire my brain,

Amidthe host, I think of Gu's old martial reign.

Wipeclean all shame of Han’sold wounded pride,

Bearforth 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）

CrossingGuabu River

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Ibear royal writ and leave my quiet glen,

Oarsbeat the tide down Guizhou’sfen.

Wildsurges leap like chargers unconfined,

Thickvapors coil like oxen intertwined.

Farmoon shines bright on cold clean sandy shore,

Sharpwinds sweep autumn o’ernight river’sfloor.

I'llnot, like drifting clouds, leave but a trace,

Norlinger 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”。

SpringFeast at Prefect Wei’s Mansion, Rhyme “Spring”

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Cinnamonwine sweetens this fragrant night,

Inivy robes, a hermit whistles his delight.

Gentlelute calms pheasants of old Lu’sground,

Clearballads shake Fan’sdust all around.

Lingeringclouds hang low like wide pavilion’sdome,

Half-moonclimbs high its empty silver loom.

Blestby such favor, my heart finds its ease—

Thisfeast 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。

AParting Lay

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Coldnight bells toll through hours long and thin,

Cooleve unfurls clear autumn’squiet din.

Whatgift can soothe a heart torn far apart?

Mypure 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”。

SendingYan Fifth Back to Runzhou, Autumn Night

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Wideroads lead back to thy ancestral home,

Brookwaters weep for new friends forced to roam.

Tornclouds drift slow, reluctant to part ways,

Thickdews pile high, too dense for sun to raise.

Palewinds sigh loud o’erdistant wall’stall crest,

Startledmoon circles thin boughs unblest.

Myfrail pen lacks the strength to ease this pain—

Oneverse 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

TheDriftwood Raft

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

OnceI bore worth of thousand fathoms tall,

Stoodhigh o’erpeaks nine ren deep in thrall.

Mytrue heart outshone late cassia bloom,

Firmvirtue shamed cold pine’senduring gloom.

Suddengales snapped my trunk — a shattering blow,

Thenraging billows charged and swept me low.

Brokenand scarred, my grief shall never cease,

Knottedand misshapen, fit for no man’speace.

Threethousand li of Bohai’ssalt flood spread,

Tenthousand layers of silt and mud o’erhead.

Likeship unanchored, drifting without mark,

Likereed-stem tossed, lost in the dark.

Noimmortal guest shall rest upon my side,

Fewskilled craftsmen my hidden worth can bide.

Ibear the frame for an emperor's grand design—

Butwho shall recommend this lonely line?

13.帝京篇（一名《上吏部侍郎帝京篇》）

唐·骆宾王

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

Odeto the Imperial Capital

ByLuo Binwang (Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Arealm of hills and streams a thousand li wide,

Nine-foldgate towers o’er the walls abide.

Whosees not this imperial city's grand display,

Shallnever know the sovereign's sacred sway.

Thepalace rests amid Xiao-Han’s mountain vale,

Noblefiefs spread where Dragon Hill prevails.

Fiveplanets glide along their starry track,

Eightrivers split the earth’s wide axis black.

Onehundred two strong passes guard Qin’s old bound,

Thirty-sixdetached palaces Han once found.

Cassiahalls stand tall ‘gainst jade towersfair,

Pepperedchambers link gold chambers everywhere.

Ninelanes and three broad roads line the city’s bend,

Tenthousand gates unroll at morning’s end.

Coveredwalkways slant to Magpie View Hall,

Crossavenues lead straight to Phoenix Tower tall.

Sword-girtlords stride south palace halls to tread,

Cap-strungnobles throng north gate’s stony bed.

Theirfame outshines all realms beneath the sky,

Artand rites mirror heaven’s glowing eye.

Theroyal constellation guards orchid steps,

Scholarmarkets float by jade pond’s soft depths.

Bronzevane spins to greet the breeze's flight,
Golden stems rise to catch the dew's pure light.

Scrollsare reviewed in Tianlu's ancient tower,

Wardrills unfold by Kunming’s watery bower.

Vermilionmansions match the Terrace Hall,

Yellowgates lead to kinsmen’s homes one and all.

Terraceand kin-houses bear lofty wall’s tall crest,

Goldfeasts and jade fare wait the bell’s loud rest.

Threethousand chambers draped in silk’s fine screen,

Twelvetiers of green mansions line the thoroughfare clean.

Gemcanopies, carved saddles, horses bound in gold,

Orchidwindows, carved pillars with jade dragons rolled.

Jadebeam inscriptions glow on plastered wall,

Goldand jade chime loud where lords and nobles thrall.

Alllords and nobles serve the crown full near,

Roamnorth lanes dawn, south neighbors ere sheer.

LuJia shared gold to feast his friends with cheer,

ChenZun cast bolts to hold his guests all year.

ClansZhao and Li walk side by side each day,

Xiaoand Zhu’s bond shall never fadeaway.

Scarletphoenix walls fade in the sunset haze,

Oxenand dark carriages cut red dust’s blaze.

Knightshurl pearl pellets ‘neath willow treeslong,

Maidsswing silver hooks down mulberry throng.

Courtesanblooms spread fragrance far and wide,

Lightsteeds and fine robes grace the knightly tide.

Yannian’ssister flies to palace halls high,

LadyLuofu rides forth with a thousand knights nigh.

Heart-knotribbons bind two souls as one,

Twinboughs woven into garment’s soft spun.

Springdawn’s cassia wine holdsflavors manifold,

Autumneve’s orchid lamps castfaint light untold.

Jadeblinds and green curtains glow side by side,

Clearzither and lute each other’s tune abide.

Wecount life's days—thirty-six thousandbright,

Yetforty-nine years of wrong fade from our sight.

Gloryand gain drift thin like mist of yore,

Wealand woe twist tight, hard to separate more.

Tianand Dou strove hard for power’s vain prize,

SoonWei and Huo won martial glory’s rise.

EreJinling’s royal aura ebbedaway,

Stonetomb texts laid the dead’s fate bare to stay.

Vermiliongates hold no young noble’s trace,

Whofears General Li by Ba’s pavilion space?

Ahundred years wait every mortal soul,

Allmortal shapes shall shift, transform, roll.

Cassiabloom’s sweet scent has fadedall apart,

Wherestands the grand feast at Cypress Beam’s heart?

Springcomes and goes, swift as a fleeting breath,

Tostrive for fame and gain is labor vain till death.

Longlodged in minor clerkship, luck I lack,

Isweep lord's gates, yet none my worth will back.

Oncemen bore pomp and splendor for a day,

Deemingtheir pride unbroken through a thousand stay.

Wingscaught storm wind to soar up heaven’s height,

Thenlost their tide, sunk low in mud’s dark blight.

Sparrowsnest ‘mid cassia boughs invain,

Blueflies mar pure jade with a tiny stain.

Goldmelts away, white silk takes altered hue,

Rankhigh or low reveals a friendship true.

Maidsonce fair grow grey ere new friends stand,

Plaingrain and rough cloth make old friends disband.

Oldcomrades sink to dark forgotten gloom,

Newacquaintances lack loyal heart’s perfume.

HanAnguo’s hopes burnt dead toash and dust,

JudgeZhai trapped in net of slander’s unjust trust.

Enough!I turn my face to homeward ways!

Simaleft Shu with verse that still amaze,

YangXiong served Han, no patron's kindly gaze.

Threewinters' toil—I thought my worthwould show,

Tenyears unraised, through frost and sun I go.

JiAn's wood piled high, unused, in vain,

SunHong's gate barred—who lets me in fromrain?

Whomourns for Changsha's exiled, unbefriended?

Ibear Luoyang’s wit, yet none commended.

Note:1) Tianlu Tower (the Pavilion of Heavenly Blessing): the Han court’ssecret library and collation hall, later a poetic symbol for imperial eruditionand the librarian-official’s seat.

2) green mansions refer to ornate, multi-story pavilions, not brothels.

14、《畴昔篇》

唐·骆宾王

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；

Odeto Bygone Days

ByLuo Binwang ( Early Tang Dynasty)

Translatedby Wang Yongli

Inyouth I cherished knightly spirit’s fire,

Scornedempty official robes and desire.

Iroamed the world to taste all mortal grace,

Anddwelt at home to share my sire’s warm face.

Wanderedbends of Ba River’s winding tide,

Moonand wind adorn Luoyang’s far side.

Thoughno jade feasts my humble board supply,

Ispurn the chase of golden pellets high.

Goldenshot and jade fare deck vain pomp’s display,

Ideemed Shi Chong’s wealth trivial eachday.

Fivelords raced forth swift steeds of thousand mile,

Threebroad lanes thronged with scented carriages file.

Carriagesglint ‘neath sunset’sfading glow,

Silkenscreens unfold to catch dawn’s soft flow.

Oldpond’s still water hangslike polished glass,

Maids’new outshines all blossoms of spring grass.

Mystormy valor faded like yesterday’s haze,

Springand autumn wheel through countless days.

Willowcatkins drift through royal gardens wide,

Plumpetals fall in courtyard side by side.

Whereroam the guests who lingered at my gate?

Oldfriends grow distant, scarce to congregate.

Letnot grief wear my visage thin and pale,

Clearautumn winds shall lift the mist’s dark veil.

Ilingered long within the capital’s bound,

Coldheat of idle years my spirit wound.

Oneday I donned rough cloth of humble grade,

Sixlong years served the palace corridor’s shade.

Myverse falls short of Sima Xiangru’s art,

Igrip spear, sigh for Yang Xiong’s lonely heart.

Ibore forth blade from war tent’s martial space,

Carriedmy brush to Wenchang’s scholarly place.

WenchangHall lies hid ‘mid palace walls tall,

Brightbards and scribes have thronged it one and all.

PanYue and Lu Ji’s sharp verse flew farand fast,

ZhangHeng and Cao Zhi’s pen power held vast.

Noprime minister my name deigned to know,

Nonoble lord would rank my merit so.

I’dfish till white hairs crown my weary head,

Carryfirewood, no friend my grief to read.

Fatedeals out woe and weal as heaven’s plan,

Strangemisfortune drives me west, drives me east again.

I’llnot be cast aside like dog of straw,

Driftloose like thistle down through wind’s raw law.

Mysideburns shift their hue each passing year,

Springbloom unfurls the same soft charm clear.

I’venot fulfilled rites to honor my kin,

Iyearn to serve my lord, my merit win.

Igrease my cart, feed steeds, bid hometown adieu,

Windreins southwest to Qiong-Bo’s far view.

JadeMound and Bronze Beam stand steep to climb,

Earth’sfarthest edge lies wrapped in mist sublime.

Oriolessing, cicadas hum sad longing lay,

Wildgeese pass by, no letter on their way.

Yangguan’sthick fog shrouds ten thousand li’s space,

Jiange’slinked peaks wear a thousand hues’ grace.

Shu’sroad stretches endless, slow to trod,

Minmountain peaks block every forward rod.

Myheart twists tight through nine sharp bends’ sharp pain,

Twostreams of bitter tears pour down my cheek’s plain.

Iroamed a thousand li in wild unrest,

Weptloud in prison’s dark deep quiet nest.

Spiritshaunt the market year on year,

Cometof ill omen glides through night’s sphere.

Fivegiants hewed the mountains with their might,

FourShu sages shone with poetic light.

StoneMirror spreads rosy dawn’s soft open haze,

Goldenwheel hides cold fire’s dim silent blaze.

Bluecliffs and green caves soak in morning rain,

Ipluck bracken fern through cloud and mountain chain.

Handin hand we climb the precipice steep,

Who’dsit confined in hovel’s dull dark deep?

Oneday a royal envoy summoned me forth,

Ijourney ten thousand li to court’s north.

OnceI knelt in audience with royal grace,

Rodeside by side to palace’s high place.

Tallgates await four-horse carriages grand,

Wideavenues bear scented carts every land.

Inyouth my judgment lacked the world’s sharp sight,

Iknew not how hard true friendship’s fight.

Onekind word smells like cassia bloom’s sweet breath,

Myheart holds strangers dear as orchid’s wealth.

Whenone true patron praised my verse and wit,

Ispread my wings and soared where high winds fit.

Irose swift high to rank of noble name,

Steppedthrough all pure court posts of royal fame.

Firsttrod the Imperial Academy’s floor,

Soonserved close by the sovereign’s palace door.

Inand out of audience halls I paced,

Servedas attendant in all courtly grace.

Blestby royal favor, I drew small pay,

Suddendisaster stole my joy away.

Ironchains confined me to North Temple jail,

Captive’srope bound my limbs without avail.

Shalljudgment rest on both accuser’s word?

Harshpenal codes hang sharp as tempered sword.

ZouYan wept grief confined in Yan’s dark cell,

LiSi endured Qin’s prison’scruel spell.

Myblack hair turned to silver thread in haste,

Theyellow sand like pitch my sight encased.

Icry for justice ‘neath the palace wall,

Scarletnoble gates refuse my call.

Ihear leaf fall, my startled soul doth shake,

Myfaint ghost fears the grave’s cold silent wake.

Frost’sharsh wrath reaches far across the land,

Nostair to clear my wrongs, my grief to stand.

Towhom pour forth my unjust suffering’s tale?

Iswallow rage, trapped in my heart’s dark veil.

Thenpost messengers came forth from eastern pass,

Wordspread the royal mercy flows ten thousand mass.

Dryfish leave rut to swim in ocean wide,

Cagedbird breaks net to soar through heaven’s tide.

Shunand Yao’s kind grace extendsits bound,

Yetslanderous tongues spread lies the world around.

Whodares crawl low beneath the capital's roof?

I'llseek 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汲汲进取人生态度，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。（翻译王永利）