<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 春日閒居三首 (一)>
<Format: 五言古詩>
<Year: 1981>
<BookName: Tu Fu -A New Translation>
<Translator: Wu, Juntao>
<TranslatedTitle: Spring Day, Living Idle (first of three poems)>
<BookPage: 472>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 1, 5>
<End Header>
<Poem>
陶云偽吾廬
吾亦愛吾屋
屋中有琴書
聊以慰幽獨
是時三月半
花落庭蕪綠
舍上晨鳩鳴
窗間春睡足
睡足起閒坐
景晏方櫛沐
今日非十齋
庖童饋魚肉
飢來恣餐歠
冷熱隨所欲
飽竟快搔爬
筋骸無檢束
豈徒暢肢體
兼欲遺耳目
便可傲松喬
何假杯中淥
<End Poem>
<Translation>
T'ao declared: I love my hut.
Likewise my room, with lute and books
That comfort me, lonely and forlorn.
Halfway through March, though flowers fall,
Grass greens in my courtyard.
At dawn pigeons coo on my roof;
Beneath my window I enjoy spring sleep.
Though I rise, I sit idly,
Not till high noon washing or combing my hair.
Since this is no religious fast day
My kitchen servant sends in fish and meat.
Like a man starving
I eat and drink as I wish,
Cold or hot, just to my taste.
My meal over,
I enjoy scratching my head.
I wear no clothes that bind
My frame or sinews.
I not only stretch my limbs,
Even my eyes and ears
Verge on forgetfulness.
I do not merely indulge myself
With the green in the wine-cup.
But in imagination emulate the red pines
And all lofty royal trees of the Immortals.
<End Translation>
<Formatted Translation>
T'ao declared: I love my hut.
Likewise my room, 
with lute and books
That comfort me, lonely and forlorn.
Halfway through March, 
Though flowers fall, grass greens in my courtyard.
At dawn pigeons coo on my roof;
Beneath my window I enjoy spring sleep.
Though I rise, I sit idly,
Not till high noon washing or combing my hair.
Since this is no religious fast day
My kitchen servant sends in fish and meat.
Like a man starving I eat and drink as I wish,
Cold or hot, just to my taste.
My meal over, I enjoy scratching my head.
I wear no clothes that bind my frame or sinews.
I not only stretch my limbs,
Even my eyes and ears verge on forgetfulness.
But in imagination emulate the red pines and all lofty royal trees of the Immortals.
I do not merely indulge myself with the green in the wine-cup.
<End Formatted Translation>