<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 贈內>
<Format: 格律不明>
<Year: 2000>
<BookName: Po Chu-I Selected Poems>
<Translator: BURTON WATSON>
<TranslatedTitle: To Give to My Wife>
<BookPage: 56>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 0>
<End Header>
<Poem>
漠漠闇苔新雨地，
微微涼露欲秋天。
莫對月明思往事，
損君顏色減君年。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
Masses of dark moss, earth newly rained on,
tiny drops of cold dew under an autumnish sky:
don't stare at the bright moon, dwelling on the past－
you'll only mar the features of your face, shorten your years.
<End Translation>