可憐

我很可憐他。

I feel sorry for him.

可憐身上衣正單，心憂炭賤願天寒。

可怜身上衣正单，心忧炭贱愿天寒。

誓掃匈奴不顧身，五千貂錦喪胡塵。可憐無定河邊骨，猶是春閨夢裏人。

Having sworn to conquer the Huns, they did not care for their lives; five thousand brocade and marten [uniforms] were lost amid the barbarian dusts. I pity these skeletons on the banks of the Wuding; they are still the men in the dreams of the women's quarters.

可憐的孩子

poor kid

惘惘乎汝欲反汝情性而無由入，可憐哉！

You are at your wit's end. You wish to recover your proper nature, and you know not what step to take first to find it. You are to be pitied!

可憐行色可憐身，可憐門前訪可憐。可憐此意傳可憐，可憐能知可憐心。

With a pitiable gait, my pitiable self calls for Garyeon in front of her door. I convey to her my pitiable intention; surely she'll understand my pitiable heart.

借問漢宮誰得似，可憐飛燕倚新妝。

I ask: who in palaces of the Han can approach her like? Even the lovely Feiyan must dress up anew.

可憐江浦望，明沙十里連。令人箇箇拾，共數父母年。

How lovely it is to look at the riverbank; the bright sands stretch on for ten miles. I would make people pick up [and count] each and every [grain of sand]; may your parents' years be as innumerable as they.