韦应物

寄李儋元锡

去年花里逢君别， 今日花开又一年。

世事茫茫难自料， 春愁黯黯独成眠。

身多疾病思田里， 邑有流亡愧俸钱。

闻道欲来相问讯， 西楼望月几回圆。

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.