本詩是《塞下曲·其二》系組詩第二首,描寫將軍夜獵的場景,凸顯將軍的勇武。因為該系列詩歌是和張仆射之作(詩題一作“和張仆射塞下曲”),故語多贊美之意。
《塞下曲》 盧綸
林暗草驚風,將軍夜引弓。
平明尋白羽,沒在石棱中。
Frontier Songs
Lu Lun
Woods dark and wind-startled grass,
The general drew his bow at dusk.
Searching the white feather in break of day,
Into the crack of a flint sunk the arrowhead.