宫词
薛逢
十二楼中尽晓妆， 望仙楼上望君王。
锁衔金兽连环冷， 水滴铜龙昼漏长。
云髻罢梳还对镜， 罗衣欲换更添香。
遥窥正殿帘开处， 袍裤宫人扫御床。
A PALACE POEM
Xue Feng
In twelve chambers the ladies, decked for the day,
Peer afar for their lord from their Fairy-View Lodge;
The golden toad guards the lock on the door-chain,
And the bronze-dragon water-clock drips through the morning
Till one of them, tilting a mirror, combs her cloud of hair
And chooses new scent and a change of silk raiment;
For she sees, between screen-panels, deep in the palace,
Eunuchs in court-dress preparing a bed.
