寄李儋元錫 韋應物

寄李儋元錫

去年花里逢君別， 今日花開又一年。

世事茫茫難自料， 春愁黯黯獨成眠。

身多疾病思田里， 邑有流亡愧俸錢。

聞道欲來相問訊， 西樓望月幾回圓。

Wei Yingwu

TO MY FRIENDS LI DAN AND YUANXI

We met last among flowers, among flowers we parted,

And here, a year later, there are flowers again;

But, with ways of the world too strange to foretell,

Spring only brings me grief and fatigue.

I am sick, and I think of my home in the country-

Ashamed to take pay while so many are idle.

...In my western tower, because of your promise,

I have watched the full moons come and go.