Tang poem · seven-character quatrain唐诗 · 七言绝句
dù杜mù牧Du Mu · Tang唐
Climbing Leyou Plateau Before Leaving for Wuxing
qīng清shí时yǒu有wèi味shì是wú无néng能
xián闲ài爱gū孤yún云jìng静ài爱sēng僧
yù欲bǎ把yì一huī麾jiāng江hǎi海qù去
lè乐yóu游yuán原shàng上wàng望zhāo昭líng陵
Underlined words have notes: tap one. The Pinyin button below shows or hides all pinyin. 一 and 不 are marked with the tone you actually say.字下有虚线的，点开有注释。下方的“拼音”按钮可以显示或隐藏全部拼音。“一”“不”标的是实际读出来的变调。
In 850, Du Mu held a post in the capital, Chang'an, but things were not going well for him. He asked to be sent away and was made governor of Huzhou, called Wuxing in old times, in today's Zhejiang. Before leaving, he climbed Leyou Plateau south of the city and wrote this poem. The title calls it "one quatrain".
唐宣宗大中四年（850年），杜牧在京城长安做官，日子过得不顺心，主动请求到外地去，被派去做湖州刺史。湖州古时叫吴兴，在今天的浙江。临走前，他登上长安城南的乐游原，写了这首诗。题目里的“一绝”，就是一首绝句。
Du Mu (803 to about 852) was a late Tang poet, named with Li Shangyin as the "Little Li and Du". His grandfather had been a chief minister, and Du Mu too dreamed of helping run the country. He loved to talk about warfare and affairs of state, but he was never given a big role. On the surface this poem is about leisure; underneath lies his disappointment.
杜牧（803—约852），晚唐诗人，和李商隐并称“小李杜”。他的祖父杜佑做过宰相，他自己也有治国的抱负，爱谈兵法和国家大事，可是一直没被重用。这首诗表面写悠闲，底下藏着他的失意。
The first line is irony. In peaceful times the able men are busy with great work, and only a "talentless" man like me has time to enjoy life. What he really means is: I have talent, but no one uses it. In the second line he turns to lone clouds and monks. It looks relaxed, but it is lonely. In the last two lines, about to leave the capital, he climbs high and looks toward Zhaoling. Emperor Taizong was famous for making good use of able men. Gazing at his tomb, the poet seems to think: if only I lived in his time. He never complains out loud. All his sadness is in that one long look.
第一句是反话。天下太平，有本事的人都在忙大事，只有我这个“无能”的人闲得有滋味。其实诗人是在说：我有才能，却没人用我。第二句写他只好去爱孤云、爱僧人，看起来很闲，心里却很寂寞。后两句他要离开京城了，偏偏登高去望昭陵。唐太宗最会用人才，望着他的陵墓，诗人心里在想：要是生在那个时代就好了。不说一句抱怨，失落都在这一“望”里。