I love his translation. Better than yours. hehe…yours is good too..

An arbour of flowers and a kettle of wine:
Alas! in the bowers no companion is mine.
Then the moon sheds her rays on my goblet and me,
And my shadow betrays we’re a party of three!
Though the moon cannot swallow her share of the grog,
And my shadow must follow wherever I jog.
Yet eheir friendship I’ll borrow and gaily carouse,
And laugh away sorrow while springtime allows.
See the moon-how she glances response to my song;
Seemy shadow – it dances so lightly along!
While sober Ifeel, you are both my good friends;
When drunken I reel, our companionship ends,
But we’ll soon have a greeting without a goodbye,
At our next merry meeting away in the sky.

同意他们他们的看法“行乐须及春”的意思是说及时行乐。不是等春天。无情游就是忘情、尽情游。

李白，清高狂放，宁与月亮、影子为伴，也不屑与庸俗为伍，我等不及也。

I’m doing classical poems for a couple reasons. The first one is totally unglamorous; I’m going over them with a native speaker, reading them aloud, and having my tones corrected. My tones are generally OK to begin with, in connected speech, but with classical Chinese, you really can’t fake it, so this seemed a good way of doing it. At the same time, the poems are part of the (minimal) classical education that Chinese people used to get, and so I’m trying to absorb it in hopes of someday being able to dash off a witty 七律 about the hostess’s dress at some cocktail party, or wowing a Beijing cab driver with a verse, complete with line-endings that rhymed some time during the Eastern Han dynasty, about the sorry state of public transportation.

Im really interested in classical chinese poetry, but never having (formally) studied classical chinese ive got a whole load of annotated books. Everything i said was just copied out of them! Anyway, all I need to do is memorise the annotations and it becomes ‘knowledge’ – right?

Aaaaaahhhh, crap. I’d seen the line about springtime interpreted as the way I have it, but the reading od “temporary” makes more sense. I’ll fix that when I move this to the (upcoming) new blog.

Also, right, 游 as 交游 makes much more sense. I’d asked my tutor about this line and never got a satisfactory answer, and as the only 唐诗 collections I have are non-annotated, I totally fudged that. D’oh d’oh d’oh. Thanks — again, I’ll emend that.

Thanks so much for the helpful comments — I really, really appreciate them, as it’s much more fun (to say nothing of useful) to be corrected than to be shouting into a vacuum, which is how I feel sometimes. Cheers – and do come back, as I’ll be making this a daily thing, and really really honestly for-reals do intend to keep it up seriously.

“Returning forever to our lonely travels”
永结无情游
Apparently 无情 indicates 忘情，尽情, to one’s heart’s content.
And 游 isnt travel, but 交游 to make friends.
so.. ‘Forever together to our heart’s content friends’? Sounds like something from the top of a pencil case.