滁州西涧

韦应物

独怜幽草涧边生， 上有黄鹂深树鸣。

春潮带雨晚来急， 野渡无人舟自横。

AT CHUZHOU ON THE WESTERN STREAM

Wei Yingwu

Where tender grasses rim the stream

And deep boughs trill with mango-birds,

On the spring flood of last night's rain

The ferry-boat moves as though someone were poling.