● 金婚吟

人生苦短歲華逸，老化痕跡此身密。

青春任憑不再來，一生相處飴如蜜。

五十寒冬共一堂，早晚家務纏身忙。

任勞任苦斷無怨，相夫教兒凡事當。

玉容豐滿己不恃，當鏡已覺鬢霜起。

滴滴辛勤千斛情，相共患難是知已。

如今慕儀恰如先，山盟海誓心猶堅。

一心所衷唯有妳，浩瀚蒼海千古緣。

● A Song of Golden Anniversary

This life, regrettably short as time fleets,

is so full of the effects of aging

that even if youth won’t return again,

our life together is as sweet as honey.

Under the same roof, we have our life spent

together for fifty years. You’ve taken on house work

day and night, enduring its toil and moil

without complaints, as if taking on the whole

weight of caring for husband and children.

Your pulpy, jade-like complexion appears

haggard, and your hair turned gray, obvious

in the mirror. Behind each drop of your toil

there’re thousand bushels of love. Through hardship

together, we become friends too close to be

apart. In the same way, I adore you now

as I did before and the deep-sworn vow

is as firm as afore. In my heart, you’re

my only lover. This lasting fate grows

profuse like the main of ocean on Earth.

● 水龍吟　蘇軾

似花還似非花，也無人惜從教墜。拋家傍路，思量卻是，無情有思。縈損柔腸，困酣嬌眼，欲開還閉。夢隨風萬里，尋郎去處，又還被，鶯呼起。

不恨此花飛盡，恨西園，落紅難綴。曉來雨過，遺踪何在？一池萍碎。春色三分，二分塵土，一分流水。細看來，不是楊花點點，是離人淚。

● Shuĭ-lóng yín 　Sū Shì

Catkins seemed like as much of flowers as of non-flowers

Are wafting casually, to no one’s taste,

Across the roadside, away from their roots,

And yet couldn’t help pondering

In deep thoughts with no feelings.

Her sorrows beleaguered like weeping willows

And her sleepy, lovely eyes, like willow leaves,

Barely open before closed,

She follows the wind in a dream to reach

Her lover thousands of miles away,

Only to be awakened by oriels’ twittering.

Nothing should be sorry for the blown-away flowers,

Except those fallen and scattered in the Western Garden.

When the dawn peeks and the rain has stopped,

How could one trace the tracks of their remains?

Upon a closer look, shrunk catkins in a pool of springtime

Filled mainly with dust and partly with flowing water,

Do not appear like specks, rather the tears of a parting partner.

● Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries —A.E. Houseman1 (1859-1936)

These, in the day when heaven was falling,

The hour when earth’s foundations fled,

Followed their mercenary calling

And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;

They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;

What God abandoned, these defended,

And saved the sum of things for pay.

● 雇傭軍的墓誌銘—阿爾弗雷德．愛德華．豪斯曼（1859-1936）

當天堂要塌下的那天，

地層快崩塌的時刻，

他們響應雇傭軍的號召

賺得薪餉而成仁。

他們頂天立地；

他們之屹立使地基保存；

上帝所唾棄的、皆由他們來護衛，

祇為保存萬物而接受工資。

● 金婚吟

人生苦短歲華逸，老化痕跡此身密。

青春任憑不再來，一生相處飴如蜜。

五十寒冬共一堂，早晚家務纏身忙。

任勞任苦斷無怨，相夫教兒凡事當。

玉容豐滿己不恃，當鏡已覺鬢霜起。

滴滴辛勤千斛情，相共患難是知已。

如今慕儀恰如先，山盟海誓心猶堅。

一心所衷唯有妳，浩瀚蒼海千古緣。

● A Song of Golden Anniversary

This life, regrettably short as time fleets,

is so full of the effects of aging

that even if youth won’t return again,

our life together is as sweet as honey.

Under the same r...

▌序言

詩是我一生的嗜好。我對詩的興趣從高中開始，一直保持到現在。然而，直到1980年代後期我才開始譯詩。常常在課餘悠閒的時候，每逢偶然發現一首啟發靈感的詩，我就會試著將它從原文翻成譯文。練習用二種不同的語言，將意象以最逼真的方法來組合，令我感到興奮，而從事這工作所引起的喜悅是難以名狀的。

退休的最初幾年，翻譯的喜悅充實了我同時用中、英文寫詩的能力。使我感動的那些人生浮沉所掠過的生動情景，透過一已的領會、對源自深永意象的頓悟，以及對退休年歲的展望有一種新而微妙的變更—凡此皆有助於值得作為寫一首新詩的動機。借助對詩的長期投注，由是我寫了很多未經發表的詩，有原作的，也有譯作的。

近幾年來，我花了些時間，修改了一些可讀的詩，依類編組，結果有176首詩詞被收入一書，取書名為「悠閒自得——中英文詩詞選集」。

本書的主要內容，就如書名所示，概括了我一生嗜好的一些智力活動。

謹以此書獻給我舅舅，感謝他費心血扶養我長大成人，以及給順菊作為我們金婚之慶。

▌Preface

To me, poetry is a life-long hobby. My interest in poetry started when I was in high school and has continued ever since. However, it was not until late 1980s that I started to translate poems. Often, in a carefree mood during my leisure time, whenever I came across with a poem that inspired me, I would make an effort to translate it from its source language into a target language. This exercise of associating images in two different languages with the utmost degree of verisimilitude excited me and the joys derived from pursuing such a task were beyond words to describe.

In earlier years of my retirement, the joys of translation enriched my ability to compose poems in both Chinese and English. Vivid scenes gliding through the vicissitudes of life that touched my heart, the epiphany arising from cherished images through personal feelings, and a new, subtle change of diverse outlooks towards my retirement years – all would go far to justify the motivation to write a new poem. As a result, a vast number of unpublished poems, original or translated, was worked out with the aid of a long-time devotion to poetry.

In recent years, I spent time editing some of those readable poems and organized them by categories into a collection of 176 poems and lyrics selected and included in a book, entitled “The Epiphany of a Carefree Mind-An Anthology of Poems and Lyrics in Chinese and/ or in English.”

The core contents of this book, as suggested by its title, epitomize the intellectual activities of a life-long hobby.

I wish to dedicate this book to my uncle in appreciation of the time and efforts he spent bringing me up and to my wife for celebrating our 50th anniversary.

▌序言

詩是我一生的嗜好。我對詩的興趣從高中開始，一直保持到現在。然而，直到1980年代後期我才開始譯詩。常常在課餘悠閒的時候，每逢偶然發現一首啟發靈感的詩，我就會試著將它從原文翻成譯文。練習用二種不同的語言，將意象以最逼真的方法來組合，令我感到興奮，而從事這工作所引起的喜悅是難以名狀的。

退休的最初幾年，翻譯的喜悅充實了我同時用中、英文寫詩的能力。使我感動的那些人生浮沉所掠過的生動情景，透過一已的領會、對源自深永意象的頓悟，以及對退休年歲的展望有一種新而微妙的變更—凡此皆有助於值得作為寫一首新詩的...

序言
Preface

●第一　雙語詩詞（Bilingual Poems and Lyrics）
金婚吟
A Song of Golden Anniversary
歡樂無比：給Fred及Leia
Joys Beyond Words: To Fred and Leia
寶寶
To My Babe
「妳」的正身
The Selfie of “She”
詩人之專擅
A Poet’s License
拾貝
Shell-picking
賣樂肯的從良婦
Malecon’s Magdalene
晚年
Declining Years
分秒必爭
Beating the Clock
邂逅
An Encounter
祝您生日快樂
Happy Birthday to You
今天
Today
賀友人九十大壽
In Celebration of a Friend’s Ninetieth Birthday
赤子心
A Naked Mind
墓地之前廳
A Hall to Graveyard
孤雁
A Lone Goose
懷念
Reminiscence
闊別
A Long Hiatus
賞鬱金香
Adoring Tulips
一事無成
Nothing Accomplished
●第二　中文詩詞（Poems and Lyrics Composed in Chinese）
媽的諾言
秋色繽紛
安養院263室的病人
庵寺怨
祝壽有感
憶亡夫
友人八十大壽有感
更漏子
長生嘆
太平島塔燈修竣有感
故宅
遊黃山有感
安養院的老人
遊織金洞有感
黯鄉魂
灑脫
人性
菩薩蠻
晨起獨白
老來嘆
●第三　英詩（Poems Composed in English）
To My Other Father
To Our Dearest Leia
To Larry and Melissa
In Memory of the God-Man
Why I Want to Know Him More?
Grasp Without Reach?
Atonement
The Sound of Silence in a Nursing Home
Second to None?
The Innocent
Class Reunion
The True Color of Lies
Politicians’ Gimmick
Doctor-assisted Death
A Living Stone Without a Soul
The Man Who Spoils His Boss at Home
The Specter of Death
Crib Death
The Irony of Excitement
A Short Visit
●第四　中詩（詞）英譯（Poems and Lyrics Translated from Chinese into English）
詩經．周南．桃夭
The Book of Songs • Odes of Zhou and South • The Tào-yāo
詩經．邶風．靜女
The Book of Songs • Odes of Bei • The Jing-nȕ
秋風辭　劉徹
The Words of Autumn Wind 　Liu Chè
詠懷　阮籍
Exposition of Feelings 　Ruăn Ji
飲酒（第七首）　陶淵明
Drinking Wine (No. 7) 　Táo Yuān-ming
飲酒（第十三首）　陶淵明
Drinking Wine (No. 13) 　Táo Yuān-ming
敦煌曲子詞集．傾杯樂
Dunhuang Quziciji • Ch’ing-pei lo
渡漢江　宋之問
Crossing the Hàn River 　Song Zhi-wen
渭城曲　王維
A Song at Wèi Chéng 　Wang Wei
鹿柴　王維
Lù Chái 　Wang Wei
哥舒歌　西鄙人
A Song in Honor of General Gēshū 　Author Unknown
越中覽古　李白
Touring the Relics in the Middle Land of the Yuè 　Li Po
菩薩蠻　李白
Pú-sà mán 　Li Po
月下獨酌　李白
Drinking Alone in Moonlight 　Li Po
春日醉起言志　李白
Life Perceived After Waking up from a Drink in Springtime 　 　　Li Po
春日憶李白　杜甫
Thinking of Li Po on a Spring Day 　Dù Fǔ
畫鷹　杜甫
A Painted Hawk 　Dù Fǔ
怨詩　孟郊
A Poem of Despair 　Mèng Jiāo
問劉十九　劉禹錫
An Invitation to Liú Shijiŭ 　Liú Yŭ-xī
浪濤沙　劉禹錫
Làng-tāo shà 　Liú Yŭ-xī
戲贈友人　賈島
To a Friend for Fun 　Jiă Dăo
送人東遊　溫庭筠
Seeing a Friend off to the EastWēn Ting-jūn
更漏子（一）　溫庭筠
Gèng-lòu zì (No. 1) 　Wēn Ting-jūn
更漏子（二）　溫庭筠
Gèng-lòu zì (No. 2) 　Wēn Ting-jūn
更漏子（三）　溫庭筠
Gèng-lòu zì (No. 3) 　Wēn Ting-jūn
更漏子（四）　溫庭筠
Gèng-lòu zì (No. 4) 　Wēn Ting-jūn
菩薩蠻（一）　溫庭筠
Pú-sà mán (No. 1) 　Wēn Ting-jūn
菩薩蠻（二）　溫庭筠
Pú-sà mán (No. 2) 　Wēn Ting-jūn
商山早行　溫庭筠
Morning Departure from Mountain Shāng 　Wēn Ting-jūn
無題　李商隱
Untitled 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
寄令狐郎中　李商隱
A Message to Official Līng Hú 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
落花　李商隱
Falling Flowers 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
嫦娥　李商隱
The Moon Goddess 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
無題（一）　李商隱
Untitled (No. 1) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
無題（二）　李商隱
Untitled (No. 2) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
無題（三）　李商隱
Untitled (No. 3) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
無題（四）　李商隱
Untitled (No. 4) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
無題（五）　李商隱
Untitled (No.5) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
瑤池　李商隱
The Jasper Lake Fairyland 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
賈生　李商隱
The Scholar Jiă 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
蟬　李商隱
Cicada 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
籌筆驛　李商隱
A Marshal’s Posthouse 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
錦瑟　李商隱
A Luxurious Zither 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
為有　李商隱
Lest He Misses Her 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
春雨　李商隱
Rain in Spring 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
涼思　李商隱
A Woeful Thought 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
風雨　李商隱
Rain in the Wind 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
隋宮（一）　李商隱
The Suí’s Palace (No. 1) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
隋宮（二）　李商隱
The Suí’s Palace (No. 2) 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
北青蘿　李商隱
To a Green-vine Hut in North 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
登樂遊原　李商隱
A Ride to an Ancient Tomb 　Lĭ Shāng-yĭn
宮詞　薛逢
A Palace Poem 　Xuē Féng
灞上秋居　馬戴
Autumn Life at Bà Plain 　Mă Dài
馬嵬坡　鄭畋
Mă Wēi Pō 　Zhèng Tián
菩薩蠻（詞組五首）　韋莊
Pú-sà mán (No.1-No.5) 　Wéi Zhuāng
女冠子　韋莊
Nǚ-guàn zì 　Wéi Zhuāng
章台夜思　韋莊
Brooding at Night in Terrace Tower 　Wéi Zhuāng
金陵圖　韋莊
A Bird’s-eye View of Jinling 　Wéi Zhuāng
書邊事　張喬
Recording Frontier Affairs 　Zhāng Qiáo
已涼　韓偓
The Crept-in Cold 　Hán Wò
春怨　金昌緒
Blues in Spring 　īn Chāng-xú
春宮怨　杜荀鶴
A Palace-lady’s Grudge in Spring 　Dù Xún-hè
除夜有作　崔塗
A Note on New Year’s Eve 　Cuī Tú
貧女　秦韜玉
A Destitute Girl 　Qín Tāo-yù
寄人　張泌
A Note to You 　Zhāng Mì
菩薩蠻　無名氏
Pú-sà mán 　Author Unknown
雜詩　無名氏
An Ad-lib Poem 　Author Unknown
鵲踏枝　馮延巳
Què-tà zhī 　Féng Yán-sì
相見歡　李煜
Xiàng-jiàn huān 　Lĭ Yù
虞美人　李煜
Yú-mĕi yén 　Lĭ Yù
浪濤沙　李煜
Làng-tāo shā 　Lĭ Yù
破陣子　李煜
Pò-zhèn zì 　Lĭ Yù
渡中江望石城淚下　李煜
Gazing in Tears at the Stone City, While Crossing the River　Lĭ Yù
相見歡　李煜
Xiàng-jiàn huān 　Lĭ Yù
浣溪沙　李煜
Huàn-xī shà 　Lĭ Yù
一斛珠　李煜
Yī-hú zhū 　Lĭ Yù
菩薩蠻（一）　李煜
Pú-sà mán (No.1) 　Lĭ Yù
菩薩蠻（二）　李煜
Pú-sà mán (No.2) 　Lĭ Yù
菩薩蠻（三）李煜
Pú-sà mán (No.3) 　Lĭ Yù
浣溪沙　李璟
Huàn-xī shà 　Lĭ Jĭng
定風波　柳永
Dìng-fēng bō 　Lìǔ Yǎng
滿江紅　柳永
Mȃn-jiān hóng 　Lìǔ Yǎng
雨霖鈴　柳永
Yù-lín líng 　Lìǔ Yǎng
八聲甘州　柳永
Bā-shēn gān-zhōu 　Lìǔ Yǎng
夜半樂　柳永
Yè-bàn lè 　Lìǔ Yǎng
戚氏　柳永
Qī-shì 　Lìǔ Yǎng
歸朝歡　柳永
Guī-cháo huān 　Lìǔ Yǎng
鬻鹽歌　柳永
A Song of Sea-water Brewers 　Lìǔ Yǎng
蝶戀花　歐陽修
Dié-liàn huā 　Ōu-Yang Xiū
杏花　王安石
An Apricot Flower 　Wáng Ān-shí
江城子　蘇軾
Jiāng-chéng zì 　Sū Shì
送鄭戶曹　蘇軾
Seeing off Financial Officer Zhèng 　Sū Shì
寄子由（摘自中秋月寄子由三首）　蘇軾
To Zĭ Yó 　Sū Shì
紅梅　蘇軾
Red Plum 　Sū Shì
木蘭花令　蘇軾
Mù-lán huā-lìng 　Sū Shì
念奴嬌　蘇軾
Niàn-nú jiāo 　Sū Shì
水調歌頭　蘇軾
Shuĭ-diào gē-tóu 　Sū Shì
水龍吟　蘇軾
Shuĭ-lóng yín 　Sū Shì
八聲甘州　蘇軾
Bā-shēn gān-zhōu 　Sū Shì
浣溪沙　周邦彥
Huān-xī shā 　Zhōu Bāng-yàng
●第五　英詩中譯（Poems Translated from English into Chinese）
That Time of Year Thou May’st in Me Behold 　　—William Shakespeare
不久你將覺察我—威廉．莎士比亞
The Expense of Spirit—William Shakespeare
精力之消耗—威廉．莎士比亞
The Rape of the Lock—Alexander Pope
鬈髮遇劫記—亞歷山大．蒲柏
The Echoing Green—William Blake
回響草地—威廉．布萊克
“To See a World…”—William Blake
〈瞻世界…〉—威廉．布萊克
Ah, Sunflower—William Blake
啊，向日葵—威廉．布萊克
Composed upon Westminster Bridge—William Wordsworth
威斯敏斯特橋上所作—威廉．華茲華斯
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud—William Wordsworth
獨自徜徉雲間—威廉．華茲華斯
In the Churchyard at Cambridge 　　—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
劍橋的墓地裡—亨利．沃茲沃思．朗費羅
Inscription 　For Mayre’s Heights, Fredericksburg—Herman Melville
碑文　 為弗雷德里克斯堡之瑪莉高地而作—赫爾曼‧梅爾維爾
Four Ducks on a Pond—William Allingham
塘上四鴨—威廉‧阿林漢姆
Memory—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
記憶—湯瑪斯．貝雷．阿爾曲奇
Somebody’s Darling—Marie Ravenel de la Coste
人家的心上人—瑪麗．拉維內爾德拉斯科斯特
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries—A.E. Houseman
雇傭軍的墓誌銘—阿爾弗雷德．愛德華．豪斯曼
Easter—Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy
復活節—傑佛瑞．安克泰爾．斯塔德特－甘迺迪
Dulce et Decorum Est—Wilfred Owen
以身殉國—維爾浮萊德．歐文

附錄（Appendix）

序言
Preface

●第一　雙語詩詞（Bilingual Poems and Lyrics）
金婚吟
A Song of Golden Anniversary
歡樂無比：給Fred及Leia
Joys Beyond Words: To Fred and Leia
寶寶
To My Babe
「妳」的正身
The Selfie of “She”
詩人之專擅
A Poet’s License
拾貝
Shell-picking
賣樂肯的從良婦
Malecon’s Magdalene
晚年
Declining Years
分秒必爭
Beating the Clock
邂逅
An Encounter
祝您生日快樂
Happy Birthday to You
今天
Today
賀友人九十大壽
In C...