权德舆: 玉台体/ Quan Deyu: THE JADE DRESSING-TABLE

玉台体

权德舆

昨夜裙带解， 今朝蟢子飞。

铅华不可弃， 莫是□砧归。

THE JADE DRESSING-TABLE

Quan Deyu

Last night my girdle came undone,

And this morning a luck-beetle flew over my bed.

So here are my paints and here are my powders --

And a welcome for my yoke again.