左掖[1]梨花
丘为[2]
冷艳全欺[3]雪，
余香乍入衣[4]。
春风且莫定[5]，
吹向玉阶[6]飞。
注释：
[1] 左掖：指唐代的官署门下省，因其在宫城左边，故称左掖或左省。
[2] 丘为：李白的同龄人。《千家诗》注说：“此初仕而以花自比，求知于主之作也。言梨花冷艳如雪，开自宫垣禁掖之中，生香而袭御衣也。春风自四面而来，犹主恩难冀而莫定。吹向玉阶飞舞，犹小臣时得傍君，以希龙颜之一顾也。”如果诗人自比梨花，衣又是指御衣，春风就是指皇恩，而玉阶却是指皇宫了。诗人希望春风把自己的芳香吹入皇宫，以便得到知遇之恩。
[3] 欺：超过，压倒。
[4] 入衣：袭人衣裳。
[5] 定：停止。
[6] 玉阶：宫殿前面的白色石阶。
The Pear Blossom in Left Palace
Qiu Wei
It’s colder and fairer than snow;
Its sweet scents royal robe invade.
I pray the vernal breeze to blow
Its fragrance to the steps of jade.
《左掖梨花》是唐代诗人丘为创作的一首五绝。此诗表达了诗人希望君主能知道梨花的优点，其实也就是诗人自己的优点，从而能使诗人实现报效国家的理想，表现了封建士大夫积极用世的心态。全诗把眼前景、胸中志融为一体，腾挪跳跃，不露斧凿之痕，在艺术上很有可取之处。
“The Pear Blossom in Left Palace ” is a poem written by Qiu Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. This poem expresses the poet’s hope that the monarch can know the merits of pear blossoms, which is actually the poet’s own merits, so that the poet can realize the ideal of serving the country, and expresses the positive attitude of feudal scholars to use the world. The whole poem combines the prospect of the eye and the will in the chest into one, moving and jumping without showing the traces of the axe, which is very desirable in the art.
