Áo Trắng- by Quang Dũng Translated into English by Hương Cau CaoTân

Áo Trắng                             Quang Dũng

Tôi gặp nàng đi buổi sớm mai
Giữa màn sương trắng phủ ngang trời
Thướt tha áo trắng khăn màu trắng
Mặt rầu tang tóc nét chưa phai

Tôi gặp nàng như gặp nhớ thương
Lạnh sao màu áo trắng như sương
Vườn hồng không thắm trong tôi nữa
Cả một hương gì gây nhớ thương

Tôi để nàng qua chẳng nói gì
Mắt người nghiêm quá dưới hàng mi
Màu tang sầu cả hồn trai trẻ
Nhớ thầm từ đó bóng người đi

White Dress                  by Quang Dũng

                                     Translated into English by Hương Cau Cao Tân

I met her in her walk in the morning that was so white

In a sea of white dew which overwhelmingly covered the sky

She was in lissome white dress and white scarf which swayed

Whose signs of death and grief on the countenance yet faded away

When I met her, it was like meeting something you had been missing

The dress whiteness was so cold like the dew that was floating

The whole garden of roses was no longer gorgeously fresh in me

But only the faint fragrance which caused some missing in me

I silently let her walk past in the stillness of quietness

Because under her eyelashes her eyes showed a sad seriousness

A screen of mourning that saddened even a youthful spirit

I have been privately missing the shadow of the person that has departed