《八声甘州·对潇潇暮雨洒江天》是宋代词人柳永的作品。此词抒写了作者漂泊江湖的愁思和仕途失意的悲慨。上片描绘了雨后清秋的傍晚，关河冷落夕阳斜照的凄凉之景；下片抒写词人久客他乡急切思念归家之情。全词语浅而情深，融写景、抒情为一体，通过描写羁旅行役之苦，表达了强烈的思归情绪，写出了封建社会知识分子怀才不遇的典型感受，从而成为传诵千古的名篇。

柳永 《八声甘州·对潇潇暮雨洒江天》

对潇潇暮雨洒江天，
一番洗清秋。
渐霜风凄紧，
关河冷落，
残照当楼。
是处红衰翠减，
苒苒物华休，
惟有长江水，
无语东流。

不忍登高临远，
望故乡渺邈，
归思难收。
叹年来踪迹，
何事苦淹留？
想佳人、
妆楼长望，
误几回天际识归舟？
争知我、
倚阑干处，
正恁凝愁。

Ba sheng gan zhou
Liu Yong

Evening rain spatters on the river.
Autumn scenes have drenched-look of dripping coat.
A wind, frosty, rise with wanting sunlight:
Strikes o'er hill and river a dismal note.

Everywhere, a bright red becomes dull red.
Leaves turn yellow; and some are even browned.
The beauty of nature — fading away.
Only the Yangzi1 flows on quiet, eastward bound.

I sigh o'er the traces I've left in places.
Why should I have stayed out for so long?
My love must have watched during her toilet —
For each boat — for me — and proved herself wrong.

How could she have known that at those moments —
I was leaning on a railing on my part,
With thousands of feelings tormenting me,
In utter despair, with a heavy heart?