By the Crooked River (by Du Fu)

The fall of one blossom

Diminishes spring

How much more sorrowful

This wind that

Strips the bough clean

And how I long  

For a blossom

More enduring 

To be inured to this pain

The wine stains my lips

By the river I see

The blue winged kingfisher

Perched in its nest

While above the burial mound

The stone Unicorn crouches

It takes only a delicate push

For us creatures

To know pleasure

What’s the use worrying

About good name

Given our stumbling ways

曲江

一片花飞减却春

风飘万点正愁人

且看欲尽花经眼

莫厌伤多酒入唇

江上小堂巢翡翠

花边高冢卧麒麟

细推物理须行乐

何用浮名绊此身