Hong Lou Meng is famous for being broad in conception and meticulous in details, as well as being equipped with diversified literary forms. As far as the poems in it are concerned, there exist three categories: original author’s own poems, quoted poems and original author’s own poems in the name of some former scholars. At present, there are plenty of translation studies on poems in Hong Lou Meng, none of which are focused on the quoted poems in this novel. Inspired by this, this article is to probe into the translation of those quoted poems in this masterpiece in terms of the original poets, the original texts, the different variations, the poetic characteristics and the quotation errors, etc. on the basis of the two authoritative English versions - respectively by David Hawkes and the Yangs, meanwhile in the hope that more similarities and differences between these two versions will be revealed, and that diverse translation ideas held by different translators in rendering Hong Lou Meng be presented from a new perspective. This article points out that Hawkes’ version is more rigorous than the Yangs’ in terms of providing the related information about the original texts, the original poets and the then social condition, which is no doubt of great value and importance for the readership and the scholars in the target language to understand the original poems and get engaged in related research respectively.