权德舆： 玉台体/ Quan Deyu： THE JADE DRESSING-TABLE

权德舆: 玉台体/ quan deyu: the jade dressing-table
玉台体
权德舆
昨夜裙带解， 今朝蟢子飞。
铅华不可弃， 莫是□砧归。
the jade dressing-table
quan deyu
last night my girdle came undone,
and this morning a luck-beetle flew over my bed.
so here are my paints and here are my powders --
and a welcome for my yoke again.