临江仙·离果州作是陆游四十八岁时，撤去夔州通判的职务，到四川宣抚使王炎幕下任干办公事兼捡法官。那年正月，从夔州赴宣抚使司所在地兴元（今陕西省汉中市），二月途经果州（今四川省南充市）而写下了此首词。

《临江仙·离果州作》 陆游

鸠雨催成新绿，燕泥收尽残红。春光还与美人同：论心空眷眷，分袂却匆匆。
只道真情易写，那知怨句难工。水流云散各西东。半廊花院月，一帽柳桥风。

Riverside Daffodils
Leaving Guozhou
Lu You

The drizzling rain hastens grass to green the place;
Swallows peck clods blended with fallen red.
Spring is as beautiful as a rosy face;
With a lingering heart
She's unwilling to part.

I thought true feeling easy to paint;
But know not it's hard to voice a complaint.
Water flows east or west and clouds wide spread,
Flowers in the yard steeped in moonlight,
On willowy bridge my hat is filled with breeze light.