答李浣[1]
韦应物
林中观易[2]罢,
溪上对鸥闲。
楚俗饶[3]词客[4],
何人最往还[5]?
注释:
[1] 这首诗说明唐代知识分子的生活情趣,不外乎读书交友,享受自然之美景,人生之乐事。
[2] 易:《周易》,为儒家六经之一。
[3] 饶:多。
[4] 词客:诗人。
[5] 往还:交往,此处指诗文酬唱。
Reply to Li Huan
Wei Yingwu
I read the Book of Changes beneath a tree,
Or watch white gulls swim in the creek, carefree.
The southern land is good for poets all.
On whom do you now and then pay a call?