秦觀，北宋中后期著名詞人，與黃庭堅、張耒、晁補之合稱“蘇門四學士”，頗得蘇軾賞識。熙寧十一年(1078年)作《黃樓賦》，蘇軾贊他“有屈宋之才”。元豐七年(1084年)秦觀自編詩文集十卷后，蘇軾為之作書向王安石推薦，王安石稱他“有鮑、謝清新之致”。 因秦觀屢得名師指點，又常與同道切磋，兼之天賦才情，所以他的文學成就燦然可觀。后于元豐八年（1085年）考中進士，初為定海主簿、蔡州教授，元祐二年（1087年)蘇軾引薦為太學博士，后遷秘書省正字，兼國史院編修官。哲宗于紹圣元年親政后（1094年）“新黨”執政，“舊黨”多人遭罷黜。秦觀出杭州通判，道貶處州，任監酒稅之職，后徙郴州，編管橫州，又徙雷州?；兆诩次缓笄赜^被任命為復宣德郎，之后在放還北歸途中卒于藤州。

　　《鵲橋仙》，詞牌名，又名《鵲橋仙令》、《金風玉露相逢曲》、《廣寒秋》，雙調五十六字，前后闋各兩仄韻，一韻到底。前后句首兩句要求對仗

　　鵲橋仙

　　纖云弄巧，

　　飛星傳恨，

　　銀漢迢迢暗渡。

　　金風玉露一相逢，

　　便勝卻人間無數。

　　柔情似水，

　　佳期如夢，

　　忍顧鵲橋歸路。

　　兩情若是久長時，

　　又豈在朝朝暮暮。

　　Immortals at the Magpie Bridge

　　Clouds float like works of art,

　　Stars shoot with grief at heart.

　　Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.

　　When Autumn’s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade,

　　All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade.

　　Their tender love flows like a stream;

　　Their happy date seems but a dream.

　　How can they bear a separate homeward way?

　　If love between both sides can last for aye,

　　Why need they stay together night and day?

　　（許淵沖 譯）

　　Immortals on the Magpie Bridge1

　　Her love into th’ clouds the Maid subtly weaves,

　　And th’ shooting stars display how th’ Cowherd grieves.

　　When dew falls the Milky Way sees their meeting rare.

　　However, no secular love can e’er compare

　　With the holy sentiments they for a time share.

　　Their tender feeling is like a long stream;

　　Their rendezvous’s like a transient dream.

　　They may not bear to part at th’ Magpie Bridge! But nay,

　　So long as undying their affections will stay,

　　Whereat should they be bound up every night and day?

　　1. This tune name derives from the myth of the sincere love between the Cowboy(Niulang) andthe Weaver (Zhinu), who are separated by the Heavenly Queen with the Milky Way and allowed tomeet only once in a year at the bridge built by the magpies which sympathize with them.

　?。ㄗ空裼?譯）