TUNE: DELAYING SPRING’S DEPARTURE

 

By painted screen vaguely I dream

Of clouds and waves in the celestial stream.

Awake, I take rosy paper in hand

And send a letter to the fairyland.

Could I write on one leaf

My boundless vernal grief?

I’ve leaned on rails at random in the Farewell Tower

In face of Southern Riverside so far and wide.

The stream divides before our bower.

When shall I see the tears

We shed in bygone years?

留春令

画屏天畔，

梦回依约，

十洲云水。

手捻红笺寄人书，

写无限伤春事。

别浦高楼曾漫倚，

对江南千里。

楼下分流水声中，

有当日凭高泪。