《古风》第三辑（31–45首）延续前两辑的宏阔视野，进一步展现李白诗思的多元面向。从“郑客西入关”的历史寓言，到“北溟有巨鱼”的鲲鹏气魄；从“羽檄如流星”的反战控诉，到“丑女来效颦”的文学批判；再到“朝弄紫泥海”的游仙逍遥——十五首诗熔历史反思、社会关切、艺术理想与超然出世于一炉，堪称太白诗学体系的纵深展开。以信达雅、功能对等、以诗译诗为准则，英译以精准传神之笔，将李白笔下的大开大合、大悲大喜，完整地传递给英语世界的读者，为中国古典诗歌的国际传播再添力作。
其三十一
郑客西入关，行行未能已。
白马华山君，相逢平原里。
璧遗镐池君，明年祖龙死。
秦人相谓曰，吾属可去矣。
一往桃花源，千春隔流水。
Old Airs, Poem No.31
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
A man from Zheng pushes westward still,
His journey long, unceasing, without rest.
Upon the plain he meets, by fortune’s will,
The Lord of Hua, on a white steed dressed.
To Haochi’s lord he gives a jade discbright;
Next year the First Emperor shall breathehis last in night.
The Qin folk whisper, one to another:
“Now we must flee, for doom is over.”
Once they reach Peach Blossom’s seclusiondeep,
A thousand springs shall from that worldthem keep.
其三十二
蓐收肃金气，西陆弦海月。
秋蝉号阶轩，感物忧不歇。
良辰竟何许，大运有沦忽。
天寒悲风生，夜久众星没。
恻恻不忍言，哀歌逮明发。
Old Airs, Poem No.32
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Ru Shou commands the autumn’s frosty air;
A crescent moon hangs o’er the ocean’slair.
Cicadas wail beneath the porch’s shade,
And sights of change make my sad heartafraid.
Where are the pleasant days of yore andcheer?
The cosmic tide must vanish with the year.
Cold winds of sorrow sweep the sky andplain,
The stars sink low through the long nightin vain.
My grief is deep, but I refrain to tell;
My mournful song endures till dawn’s firstbell.
其三十三
北溟有巨鱼，身长数千里。
仰喷三山雪，横吞百川水。
凭陵随海运，燀赫因风起。
吾观摩天飞，九万方未已。
Old Airs, Poem No.33
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
In Northern Deep a monstrous fish hasplace,
Whose frame extends for thousands of lispace.
It spouts aloft the snow of three peakshigh,
And swallows streams from every river nigh.
It surges forth when ocean tides arise,
Its flash of might awakened from the skies.
Behold it mount the heavens in its flight—
Through nine-fold vaults, with never-endingmight.
其三十四
羽檄如流星，虎符合专城。
喧呼救边急，群鸟皆夜鸣。
白日曜紫微，三公运权衡。
天地皆得一，澹然四海清。
借问此何为，答言楚征兵。
渡泸及五月，将赴云南征。
怯卒非战士，炎方难远行。
长号别严亲，日月惨光晶。
泣尽继以血，心摧两无声。
困兽当猛虎，穷鱼饵奔鲸。
千去不一回，投躯岂全生。
如何舞干戚，一使有苗平。
Old Airs, Poem No.34
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Dispatches fly like shooting stars thatrace;
Tiger seals empower each border base.
Urgent cries for frontier help ring out;
All birds at night take wing and shriekabout.
Bright sun illumines the imperial dome;
Three ministers hold sway, and guide thethrone.
When heaven and earth in one accord agree,
The four seas rest in peaceful harmony.
I ask what causes this tumultuous strife—
They answer: “Chu is levying troops forlife.
They cross the Lu in fifth-month’s burningblaze,
To march to Yunnan’s distant, war-tornways.”
The timid conscripts are no valiant men;
The southern wilds are far beyond theirken.
They wail aloud, parting from sires sodear;
The sun and moon grow dim with sorrow’stear.
Their tears are spent, then blood begins tostart;
Their hearts are crushed, and silence holdstheir heart.
Like trapped beasts facing tigers fierceand fell,
Like starving fish that whales in oceanquell—
A thousand march, and scarce one sees hishome;
Who casts his life to war, how can he roam?
O for the ancient dance of shield and axe,
To tame the Miao without these bloodytracks!
其三十五
丑女来效颦，还家惊四邻。
寿陵失本步，笑杀邯郸人。
一曲斐然子，雕虫丧天真。
棘刺造沐猴，三年费精神。
功成无所用，楚楚且华身。
大雅思文王，颂声久崩沦。
安得郢中质，一挥成斧斤。
Old Airs, Poem No.35
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
An ugly girl aped Beauty’s frown one day;
Returning home, she shocked her neighbours’stay.
A youth from Shouling forgot his nativepace;
The folks of Handan laughed at hisdisgrace.
Some scribblers weave their ornate, trivialrhyme,
But losing primal truth by wasting time.
To carve a monkey on a thorn’s fine tip
Costs three years’ toil, and wastes thecraftsman’s grip.
Though finished well, the work has no trueuse;
It only decks the artist with abuse.
I yearn for King Wen’s grand and ancientlays;
Their hymnal fame has faded in these days.
Where is the master carpenter of Ying,
Who with one stroke could shape a flawlessthing?
其三十六
抱玉入楚国，见疑古所闻。
良宝终见弃，徒劳三献君。
直木忌先伐，芳兰哀自焚。
盈满天所损，沉冥道为群。
东海泛碧水，西关乘紫云。
鲁连及柱史，可以蹑清芬。
Old Airs, Poem No.36
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
A man bore jade to Chu—we know the tale;
His treasure met with doubt, and he didfail.
Thrice he presented it, but all in vain;
The gem was spurned, and only brought himpain.
The straightest tree is first to feel theknife;
The orchid grieves to lose its fragrantlife.
Heaven reduces what has grown too great;
The shadowy way abides in lowly state.
Sail blue waves of the Eastern Sea so free;
Ride purple clouds beyond the western lea.
Lu Lian and Laozi—ancient sages bright—
I tread their path of virtue and of light.
其三十七
燕臣昔恸哭，五月飞秋霜。
庶女号苍天，震风击齐堂。
精诚有所感，造化为悲伤。
而我竟何辜，远身金殿旁。
浮云蔽紫闼，白日难回光。
群沙秽明珠，众草凌孤芳。
古来共叹息，流泪空沾裳。
Old Airs, Poem No.37
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Once Yan’s minister wept bitter tears,
When autumn frost fell in the fifth moon’syears.
A wronged maid cried unto the vaulted sky;
Tempests crashed through Qi’s halls,rumbling high.
Pure heartfelt faith can move all nature’sframe,
And stir creation into grief and shame.
What wrong have I committed, tell me why?
Cast far away from palace halls nigh.
Floating clouds veil the royal purple gate;
The sun’s clear radiance cannot penetrate.
Sand grains defile the pearl’s unrivalledglow;
Common weeds o’erwhelm the lonely bloombelow.
Since ancient times men sigh this endlesslay;
Vain tears fall down and soak the robes allday.
其三十八
孤兰生幽园，众草共芜没。
虽照阳春晖，复悲高秋月。
飞霜早淅沥，绿艳恐休歇。
若无清风吹，香气为谁发。
Old Airs, Poem No.38
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
A lonely orchid grows in hidden gardenground,
Half choked and lost amid the weeds around.
Though bathed in radiance of spring’s mildhour,
It grieves beneath the autumn moon’s coldpower.
Early frost drizzles down from gloomy sky;
Its green bright bloom will fade, andquickly die.
If no soft breeze shall wander through theair,
For whom shall it exhale its fragrant care?
其三十九
登高望四海，天地何漫漫。
霜被群物秋，风飘大荒寒。
荣华东流水，万事皆波澜。
白日掩徂辉，浮云无定端。
梧桐巢燕雀，枳棘栖鸳鸾。
且复归去来，剑歌行路难。
Old Airs, Poem No.39
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
I climb the height and gaze o’er four wideseas;
How boundless stretch the earth andheaven’s leas.
Frost cloaks all things in autumn’s bleakattire;
Winds sweep the wilds with bitter, chillingfire.
Glory and wealth drift like the eastwardtide;
All mortal things are billows, turn andbide.
The sun conceals its fading evening glow;
Wandering clouds drift, no fixed way toknow.
The parasol trees host sparrows andswallows;
The thorny bushes lodge phoenixes inhollows.
I turn for home; sword in hand I sing,
How rough and hard the mortal road dothcling.
其四十
凤饥不啄粟，所食唯琅玕。
焉能与群鸡，刺蹙争一餐。
朝鸣昆丘树，夕饮砥柱湍。
归飞海路远，独宿天霜寒。
幸遇王子晋，结交青云端。
怀恩未得报，感别空长叹。
Old Airs, Poem No.40
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
The phoenix starves, yet scorns the commongrain;
Its food alone is jade-fruit, not theplain.
How could it jostle with the barnyard fowl,
To scramble for one meal with greedy howl?
At dawn it sings on Kunlun’s lofty tree;
At dusk it drinks where Rapids roll withglee.
Its homeward flight o’er the great oceanwide;
Alone it rests beneath the frosty tide.
Once it was blest to meet Wang Zijin’sface,
And swore a bond in that celestial place.
His favour deep within my breast I hold;
At parting now, my thanks are left untold.
其四十一
朝弄紫泥海，夕披丹霞裳。
挥手折若木，拂此西日光。
云卧游八极，玉颜已千霜。
飘飘入无倪，稽首祈上皇。
呼我游太素，玉杯赐琼浆。
一餐历万岁，何用还故乡。
永随长风去，天外恣飘扬。
Old Airs, Poem No.41
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
At morn I sport on Purple Mud Sea's strand;
At dusk I don the crimson sunset's brand.
I reach to pluck the Ruomu's twilightbough,
To brush aside the sun's last western glow.
On cloud I lie, through eight extremes toroam;
My jade-bright face has known a thousandfrosts of home.
I drift afar into the boundless void,
And bow my head before the HighestSovereign's pride.
He calls me to the Great Simplicity's core,
And hands a jade cup filled with nectarpour.
One meal spans ten millennia's long flight—
Why should I yearn for homeland's fadinglight?
Forever riding on the endless breeze,
Beyond the sky I drift with tranquil ease.
其四十二
摇裔双白鸥，鸣飞沧江流。
宜与海人狎，岂伊云鹤俦。
寄形宿沙月，沿芳戏春洲。
吾亦洗心者，忘机从尔游。
Old Airs, Poem No.42
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Two white gulls wheel above the river'sblue,
Their cries resound where waters rush anew.
They love to play with men who fish theshore—
Not mates to cloud-borne cranes that soarand soar.
They rest on sand beneath the moon's softgleam,
And sport on spring isles where the flowersteem.
My heart is washed of schemes and worldlyart;
I cast all craft away, and with them start.
其四十三
周穆八荒意，汉皇万乘尊。
淫乐心不极，雄豪安足论。
西海宴王母，北宫邀上元。
瑶水闻遗歌，玉杯竟空言。
灵迹成蔓草，徒悲千载魂。
Old Airs, Poem No.43
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
King Mu of Zhou yearned for the eightextremes;
The Han emperor—his might and thronesupreme.
Their lust for pleasure knew no bounds, itseems—
What worth their vaunted prowess and theirnames?
Westward they feasted with the Royal Dame;
North hall they summoned Goddess of HighFame.
By Jasper Stream faint songs still lingerlow;
Jade cups and deathless life were emptyshow.
Immortal haunts are choked with tangledweed—
A thousand years of wasted spirits plead.
其四十四
绿萝纷葳蕤，缭绕松柏枝。
草木有所托，岁寒尚不移。
奈何夭桃色，坐叹葑菲诗。
玉颜艳红彩，云发非素丝。
君子恩已毕，贱妾将何为。
Old Airs, Poem No.44
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Green creepers spread in rich and tangledsprays,
Enlacing pine and cypress through the days.
The plants find firm support where they maycling,
Unshaken through the bitter winter's sting.
Why must the peach's fleeting bloom thusmourn,
Recalling verses where forsaken plants areborn?
Her face glows bright with crimson'sradiant dye;
Her cloud-like locks show no thread of greynearby.
Her lord's fond favour fades and comes toend—
What shall this lonely lady then attend?
其四十五
八荒驰惊飚，万物尽凋落。
浮云蔽颓阳，洪波振大壑。
龙凤脱罔罟，飘摇将安托。
去去乘白驹，空山咏场藿。
Old Airs, Poem No.45
By Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Translated by Wang Yongli
Wild tempests rage across the eightfoldplain;
All things that live are withered andslain.
Wandering clouds obscure the dying sun;
Great billows shake the chasms, one by one.
The dragon and the phoenix break theirsnare—
Where shall they drift, what refuge find,and where?
Away, away! Mount the white steed and flee;
Sing of wild herbs amid the mountains free.
李白其诗以抒情为主，表现出蔑视权贵的傲岸精神，对人民疾苦表示同情，又善于描绘自然景色，表达对祖国山河的热爱。诗风雄奇豪放，想像丰富，语言流转自然，音律和谐多变，善于从民间文艺和神话传说中吸取营养和素材，构成其特有的瑰玮绚烂的色彩。本辑从“一往桃花源”的隐逸向往，到“永随长风去”的自由宣言，十五首完成了李白精神世界的又一次巡礼：他痛斥战争之残酷，批判文风之浮靡，感怀贤才之被弃，也向往仙界之逍遥。这些诗篇既是盛唐社会的真实映照，也是人类永恒困境的诗意回应。信达雅的译笔让这份来自东方的思想与美感，正跨越语言的边界，在世界文学的星空下熠熠生辉。（翻译王永利）
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