Liangzhou Verse (Grape Wine in a Luminous Night Cup)

涼州詞 (葡萄美酒夜光杯) · Three Hundred Tang Poems

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English translation 中文原文

Grape wine in cups of luminous jade,

About to drink, the pipa urges us from horseback.

Laugh not if I lie drunk upon the battlefield—

Since ancient times, how many who marched to war returned?

涼州詞 (葡萄美酒夜光杯)

葡萄美酒夜光杯，欲飲琵琶馬上催。

醉臥沙場君莫笑，古來征戰幾人回。