楼外垂杨千万缕。欲系青春，少住春还去。犹自风前飘柳絮。随春且看归何处。
绿满山川闻杜宇。便做无情，莫也愁人苦。把酒送春春不语。黄昏却下潇潇雨。
HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/xichun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>惜春HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/shangchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>伤春，留春HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春，词中常调。这首“HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春”词却别具一份女词人的巧思妙想与慧心深情。
上片化HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/jingwu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>景物为HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qingsi/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>情思，纯从“楼外垂杨”着笔。从HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/feng/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>风飘HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/liuxu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>柳絮的景象看，词中所写，当是HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/muchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>暮春烟柳，而非细叶新裁的仲春嫩柳，这样方与HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春之旨吻合。HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yangliu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>杨柳依依的形象和HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/zheliu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>折柳HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songbie/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送别的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/feng/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>风习使人们从柳条想到HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songbie/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送别，原很HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/ziran/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>自然；但从“垂杨千万缕”想到它“欲系HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qingchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>青春”，却是女词人的独特感受。从“送”到“系”，虽只在一转换之间，却包含了HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/xiangxiang/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>想象的跨越飞跃，进一步写出了柳的缱绻多情。那千万缕随HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/feng/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>风荡漾的柳丝，像是千万缕柔曼的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qingsi/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>情思，力图挽住HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chuntian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春天。然而“少住春还去”，春毕竟是留不住的。他人至此，不过HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/tanxi/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>叹息HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/shanggan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>伤感而已，词人却从随HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/feng/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>风飘荡的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/liuxu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>柳絮生出“随春且看归何处”的奇思妙想。HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/liuxu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>柳絮的形象，在诗词中或状撩乱HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chunchou/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春愁，或状漂荡无依，即使HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/lianxiang/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>联想到“送”，也只有“飞絮HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春归”（蔡伸《朝中措》）一类HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/xiangxiang/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>想象。朱淑真却以女词人特有的灵心慧性和缠绵执着，将它HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/xiangxiang/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>想象成一直深情地追随着HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chuntian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春天，想看一看春究竟归于何处。由“系”到“随”，进一步写出了柳对HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chuntian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春天的无限HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yilian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>依恋和无尽追踪。
下片从“春归”生出，转从HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春的词人方面着笔。“绿满HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/shan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>山川”正是HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/muchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>暮春之景。这一望碧绿之中正含有落HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/hua/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>花飞絮狼藉的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/shanggan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>伤感记忆，更何况耳畔又时时传来象征着春归的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/dujuan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>杜鹃HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/niao/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>鸟凄伤的呜叫声。目接耳闻，无非芳春消逝的景象即便是无HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qinHRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/gre/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>GREn/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>情人，恐怕也要为之HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chouku/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>愁苦不已。“便作”句先从反面假设，“莫也”句则故用摇曳不定之语从正面渲染HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chouku/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>愁苦，愈觉HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qinghuai/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>情怀酸楚。写到这里，方才引出这位满怀愁情的女主人公。“系春”不住，“随春”难往，唯有“HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春”：“把酒HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春春不语，HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/huanghun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>黄昏却下潇潇HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>雨。”这两句似从欧词“泪眼问HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/hua/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>花HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/hua/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>花不语，乱红飞过HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qiuqian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>秋千去”化出，但独具神韵。在词人感觉中，这即将离去的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chuntian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春天，像是怀着无限HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/bieli/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>别离的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chouchang/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>惆怅与HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/ganshang/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>感伤，悄然无语，与HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/shangchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>伤春的词人默然相对。时近HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/huanghun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>黄昏，又下起了潇潇细HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>雨。这“潇潇HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>雨”，像是HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chuntian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春天告别的细语，又像是HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chuntian/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春天归去的HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/tanxi/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>叹息。而女主公HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qinghuai/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>情怀的黯淡、HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/guji/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>孤寂也从中隐隐传出。妙在“不语”与“潇潇HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>雨”之间存在着一种似有若无的对应与联系，使读者感到这悄然飘洒的“HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>雨”仿佛是一种不语之“语”。这一境界空晨。极富象外之致的结语使词在巧思妙想之外更多了一份悠远的情致。
全词通过描写外缕垂杨、飞絮缱绻、HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/dujuan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>杜鹃哀鸣、HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/chunyu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>春HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yu/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>雨潇潇，构成一副HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/qiwan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>凄婉缠绵的画面，一个多愁善感，把酒HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/songchun/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>送春的女主人公的形象活现在这幅画面中，词句清丽，HRef=https://www.qijian.info/list/yijing/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>意境深远。