浮云终日行，游子久不至。
　　三夜频梦君，情亲见君意。
　　告归常局促，苦道来不易。
　　江湖多风波，舟楫恐失坠。
　　出门搔白首，若负平生志。
　　冠盖满京华，斯人独憔悴。
　　孰云网恢恢，将老身反累。
　　千秋万岁名，寂寞身后事。

　　This cloud, that has drifted all day through the sky,
　　May, like a wanderer, never come back....
　　Three nights now I have dreamed of you --
　　As tender, intimate and real as though I were awake.
　　And then, abruptly rising to go,
　　You told me the perils of adventure
　　By river and lake-the storms, the wrecks,
　　The fears that are borne on a little boat;
　　And, here in my doorway, you rubbed your white head
　　As if there were something puzzling you.
　　...Our capital teems with officious people,
　　While you are alone and helpless and poor.
　　Who says that the heavenly net never fails?
　　It has brought you ill fortune, old as you are.
　　...A thousand years' fame, ten thousand years' fame-
　　What good, when you are dead and gone.

【注释】 1.浮云：喻游子飘游不定。游子：此指李白。
2.这两句说：李白一连三夜入我梦中，足见对我情亲意厚。这也是从对方设想的写法。
3.告归：辞别。局促：不安、不舍的样子。
4.冠：官帽。盖：车上的篷盖。冠盖，指代达官。斯人：此人，指李白。
5.孰云：谁说？网恢恢：《老子》有"天网恢恢，疏而不漏"的话。此处指法网恢恢。这句意思是：谁说天网宽疏，对你却过于严酷了。
6.这两句说：他活着的时候虽然寂寞困苦，但必将获得千秋万岁的声名。