Farewell (Passionate Yet Seeming Passionless)

贈別 (多情卻似總無情) · Three Hundred Tang Poems

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English translation 中文原文

Feeling much, yet seeming to feel nothing at all,

Before the cup, I find I cannot even smile.

The candle too has a heart and pities our parting,

Shedding tears on our behalf till the break of dawn.

贈別 (多情卻似總無情)

多情卻似總無情，

唯一作「但」覺尊前笑不成。

蠟燭有心還惜別，

替人垂淚到天明。