王维

　　洛阳女儿行

　　洛阳女儿对门居， 才可容颜十五余；

　　良人玉勒乘骢马， 侍女金盘脍鲤鱼。

　　画阁朱楼尽相望， 红桃绿柳垂檐向。

　　罗帷送上七香车， 宝扇迎归九华帐。

　　狂夫富贵在青春， 意气骄奢剧季伦。

　　自怜碧玉亲教舞， 不惜珊瑚持与人。

　　春窗曙灭九微火， 九微片片飞花璅.

　　戏罢曾无理曲时， 妆成祇是薰香坐。

　　城中相识尽繁华， 日夜经过赵李家。

　　谁怜越女颜如玉？ 贫贱江头自浣纱。

　　Folk-song-styled-verse

　　Wang Wei

　　A SONG OF A GIRL FROM LOYANG

　　There's a girl from Loyang in the door across the street,

　　She looks fifteen, she may be a little older.

　　……While her master rides his rapid horse with jade¹ bit an bridle²,

　　Her handmaid brings her cod-fish in a golden plate.

　　On her painted pavilions, facing red towers,

　　Cornices are pink and green with peach-bloom and with willow³,

　　Canopies⁴ of silk awn her seven-scented chair,

　　And rare fans shade her, home to her nine-flowered curtains.

　　Her lord, with rank and wealth and in the bud of life,

　　Exceeds in munificence⁵ the richest men of old.

　　He favours this girl of lowly birth, he has her taught to dance；

　　And he gives away his coral-trees to almost anyone.

　　The wind of dawn just stirs when his nine soft lights go out,

　　Those nine soft lights like petals⁶ in a flying chain of flowers.

　　Between dances she has barely time for singing over the songs；

　　No sooner is she dressed again than incense⁷ burns before her.

　　Those she knows in town are only the rich and the lavish⁸,

　　And day and night she is visiting the hosts of the gayest mansions⁹.

　　……Who notices the girl from Yue with a face of white jade,

　　Humble¹⁰, poor, alone, by the river, washing silk？