Du Mu: One Poem On the Way Home

 

[updated October 2022]

 

One Poem On the Way Home

 

途 中 一 绝
镜 中 丝 发 悲 来 愦
衣 上 征 尘 拂 渐 难。
惆 怅 江 湖 钓 竿 手
却 遮 西 日 向 长 安。
Tu Zhong Yi Jue

Jing zhong si fa bei lai kui
Yi shang zheng chen fu jian nan.
Chou chang jiang hu diao gan shou
Que zhe xi ri xiang chang an.

 

One Poem On the Way Home

Middle of the mirror, only a few threads of hair to express sorrow and befuddlement
Clothes have always been covered with dust, soaked with difficulties.
Lonely with a fishing pole in hand, spent idle years around rivers and lakes
Sun setting, light is blocked on my way back to Chang’an.