画眼描眉难画眸,每因笔涩苦生愁。期瞻一水春江媚,总误半轮寒月羞。


小影执来无动色,只鸿飞过不全秋。归寻入梦娇娃魅,却似瀛洲海客求。


 


The pupil is the hardest
part when I draw the eye


As my pen turns sluggish I
feel bitter and sigh


I wish to see the charm of
the river in the spring


Yet I oft fail to catch the
shyness in the cold moon


A picture in hand does not
make her visage alive


A lone goose is but a
partial scene of autumn time


I wish to see the enticing
beauty in my dream


Yet she’s elusive as the
fairy isle in a stream