宫词

顾况

玉楼天半起笙歌， 风送宫嫔笑语和。

月殿影开闻夜漏， 水晶帘卷近秋河。

A PALACE POEM

Gu Kuang

High above, from a jade¹ chamber², songs float half-way to heaven,

The palace-girls' gay voices are mingled³ with the wind --

But now they are still, and you hear a water-clock drip in the Court of the Moon....

They have opened the curtain wide, they are facing the River of Stars.