【作品简介】
《哀江头》由杜甫创作，被选入《唐诗三百首》。756年（唐肃宗至德元年）秋天，杜甫离开鄜州去投奔刚即位的唐肃宗，不巧，被安史叛军抓获，带到沦陷了的长安。旧地重来，触景伤怀，诗人的内心是十分痛苦的。第二年春天，诗人沿长安城东南的曲江行走，感慨万千，哀恸欲绝，《哀江头》就是当时心情的真实记录。
唐大历四年(769年)，杜甫由湖北入湘，登岳阳楼，游洞庭湖，溯湘江而上，至耒阳，次年四月病故。据《旧唐书.杜甫传》记载， 杜甫在耒阳游岳庙，“大水遽至，涉旬不得食，县令馈送牛肉白酒，甫饮过多，一夕而卒”，葬于杜甫墓。
【中英对照翻译】
哀江头
杜甫
少陵野老吞生哭， 春日潜行曲江曲。
江头宫殿锁千门， 细柳新蒲为谁绿。
忆昔霓旌下南苑， 苑中景物生颜色。
昭阳殿里第一人， 同辇随君侍君侧。
辇前才人带弓箭， 白马嚼啮黄金勒。
翻身向天仰射云， 一箭正坠双飞翼。
明眸皓齿今何在， 血污游魂归不得。
清渭东流剑阁深， 去住彼此无消息。
人生有情泪沾臆， 江水江花岂终极。
黄昏胡骑尘满城， 欲往城南望城北。
A SONG OF SOBBING BY THE RIVER
Du Fu
I am only an old woodsman, whispering a sob,
As I steal like a spring-shadow down the Winding River.
...Since the palaces ashore are sealed by a thousand gates --
Fine willows, new rushes, for whom are you so green?
...I remember a cloud of flags that came from the South Garden,
And ten thousand colours, heightening one another,
And the Kingdom's first Lady, from the Palace of the Bright Sun,
Attendant on the Emperor in his royal chariot,
And the horsemen before them, each with bow and arrows,
And the snowy horses, champing at bits of yellow gold,
And an archer, breast skyward, shooting through the clouds
And felling with one dart a pair of flying birds.
...Where are those perfect eyes, where are those pearly teeth?
A blood-stained spirit has no home, has nowhere to return.
And clear Wei waters running east, through the cleft on Dagger- Tower Trail,
Carry neither there nor here any news of her.
People, compassionate, are wishing with tears
That she were as eternal as the river and the flowers.
...Mounted Tartars, in the yellow twilight, cloud the town with dust.
I am fleeing south, but I linger-gazing northward toward the throne.