This short song is titled “Autumn Night Chant”, and the whole song is intended to express the poet’s longing for love in the autumn night. The first two sentences say: The evening bell in the Buddhist temple rang, which means dusk is coming and the autumn night is coming, and a sense of vastness and loneliness arises quietly. The third sentence describes the setting sun, and the sound of autumn cicadas comes in waves, indicating the autumn season. Then it describes the typical scenery of the autumn night: a half-circle of cool moon rises, and the night wind blows through the half-curtain, which naturally triggers the poet’s full of melancholy; the author writes that his hair has turned gray, and has become black and white, and he is still alone in the long autumn night, with a heart full of hidden pain.
这首小令以“秋夜吟”为题，全曲意在抒发诗人秋夜中一段相思感情。开头两句说：佛寺中晚钟响了，意味着薄暮降临，秋夜就要到来，一种苍茫、孤独之感暗暗产生。第三句写落日时，秋日的蝉声一阵阵传来，点明秋令。接下来写秋夜典型的景色：半轮凉月升起，半帘夜风吹来，自然触发起诗人的满怀愁绪；写作者自己头发花白，已成黑白二毛，还孤独地守在漫漫秋夜中，心中充满了隐痛。
《朝天子·秋夜吟》 李致远
梵宫，
晚钟，
落日蝉声送。
半规凉月半帘风，
骚客情尤重。
何处楼台，
笛声悲动？
二毛斑，
秋夜永。
楚峰，
几重，
遮不断相思梦。
A Chant at Autumn Night—To the tune of Paying Homage to a Sovereign
Li Zhiyuan
The Buddhist temple,
The evening bell.
In the setting sun cicadas yell.
Beyond the curtain half raised by the wind is the crescent cool,
How sentimental feelings the poet rule!
Where are the towers that send
The melancholy sound of the lute with no end?
My hair now is grey,
The autumn night is long,
The bleak wind wails in dismay,
Gusts of it so strong
Yet break not my dream of love far away.
