柳宗元 《江雪》 《Snowing River》

From the hills all flying birds has vanished,
From all paths trace of people diminished ,
On the only boat in the snowing river so cold,
Lonely fishing an old fellow, with grass hat and grass coat.

千山鳥飛絕，
萬徑人蹤滅。
孤舟蓑笠翁，
獨釣寒江雪。

蔣捷《虞美人-聽雨》《Listen to the rain》

Listen to the rain up in the club when I was young,
To our bed curtain the red candle shed lights on.
Listen to it in the Ferry when being middle-aged.
While the lone goose crying over
Freezing wind, endless river and the drooping cloud.

Still listening to rain now under a temple house,
Already  snowy  are  my  earlocks，
No Longer I care about the joy and sorrow,
Despite at stairs all till dawn
The rain drops and drops so.

少年聽雨歌樓上, 紅燭昏羅帳。
壯年聽雨客舟中, 江闊雲低, 斷雁叫西風。

而今聽雨僧廬下, 鬢已星星也。
悲歡離合總無情, 一任階前, 點滴到天明

試以騷體譯葉芝《WHEN YOU ARE OLD》《當你老去》

之子之衰兮雲鬢雜然
爐畔巍巍兮時俯時眠
一卷在手兮讀耶夢耶
或夢款款兮軟顧深瞻

世多君子兮愛子清儀
慕子窈窕兮孰真孰虛
心靈之慕兮世惟斯人
花顏縱逝兮念戀如一

獨俯觀兮惟爐火闌珊
嘆復吟兮悵愛之遷延
奮而馳兮欲入乎層巔
何得而隱兮同彼星團

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down thi-s book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid hi-s face amid a crowd of stars.

試以古風譯葉芝《Down by the Salley Gardens》《柳園街上》

昔遇柳園街 佳人足如雪
謂我鍾情易 若柳生枝葉
昔我愚復魯 斯衷未足解

昔倚對春江 佳人腕似霜
謂我偷生易 若草起坡梁
昔我愚復魯 今思淚滿裳

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she placed her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.