<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 禁中夜作書與元九>
<Format: 七言絕句>
<Year: 2000>
<BookName: Po Chu-I Selected Poems>
<Translator: BURTON WATSON>
<TranslatedTitle: Written While on Night Duty at the Palace, to Send to Yüan Ninth>
<BookPage: 17>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 0>
<End Header>
<Poem>
心緒萬端書兩紙，
欲封重讀意遲遲。
五聲宮漏初鳴夜，
一點窗燈欲滅時。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
Ten thousand threads of thought, two sheets written:
before sealing them, I read them over, wonder if they'll do.
The palace water clock has just sounded the fifth watch,
the lamp in the window, my one light, about to go out.
<End Translation>