唐詩三百首英譯 僧皎然：尋陸鴻漸不遇

五言律詩

僧皎然

尋陸鴻漸不遇

移家雖帶郭， 野逕入桑麻。

近種籬邊菊， 鞦來未著花。

釦門無犬吠， 欲去問西家。

報到山中去， 歸來每日斜。

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Five-character-regular-verse

Seng Jiaoran

NOT FINDING LU HONGXIAN AT HOME

To find you， moved beyond the city，

A wide path led me， by mulberry and hemp，

To a new-set hedge of chrysanthemums ——

Not yet blooming although autumn had come.

……I knocked； no answer， not even a dog.

I waited to ask your western neighbour；

But he told me that daily you climb the mountain，

Never returning until sunset.