English中文
Gazing South: She Finishes Her Dressing
梳洗罢，
独倚望江楼。
过尽千帆皆不是，
斜晖脉脉水悠悠。
肠断白蘋洲。
Her washing and dressing finished, she leans alone upon the river-viewing tower. A thousand sails pass by, and none is his; the slanting light is tender, the water flows on and on. Heartbroken at the isle of white ping water-plants.
Reading notes
蘋, read pín, names a water plant; the English keeps ping rather than identifying it as duckweed. 脉脉 is read mò mò and suggests tenderness. The tune is also called Meng Jiangnan; this page retains Wang Jiangnan.