新年作-Written at the Beginning of the New Year
新年作
刘长卿
乡心新岁切，天畔独潸然。
老至居人下，春归在客先。
岭猿同旦暮，江柳共风烟。
已似长沙傅，从今又几年？
Written at the Beginning of the New Year
Liu Changqing
How homesick I am with the coming of New Year，
Shedding tears alone in the earth’s farthest place here！
I’m old and yet among officials I rank low；
How I envy spring that can before me home go ！
Day and night I pass time with monkeys as fellows
And have to share wind and mist with river willows.
My poor exile life is like Jia Yi’s in his day，
And I wonder how many more years I’ve here to stay.