Pure, Serene Music
Wang Anguo

Spring cannot be retained,
Though orioles have exhausted their song.
The ground is strewn with fallen reds like brocade stained.
The southern garden washed by rain all the night long.

For the first time the songstress plucks the pipa string;
At dawn her yearning soars into the sky.
The painted hall with crimson door is no place for spring;
The vernal breeze with willowdown wafts high.▲

译文
　　想留住春色却留不住，黄莺儿费尽唇 也说不服。满地里落花凋残像彩锦染了法污，原来是昨夜南园遭到风雨凌侮。小怜她初抱琵到始弄 ，晓来情思绕游天涯。不肯委身画堂朱户，只愿像春风里综放的自在梨花。

注释
①宫锦：宫中特用的锦缎。这里用来比喻昨夜被风雨摧残的落花。
②南国：泛指园囿。
③小怜：北齐后主高纬宠妃冯淑妃名，善弹琵琶，这里泛指歌女。▲