Three Hundred Tang Poems (201-320)

201
七言律詩
皇甫冉
春思
鶯啼燕語報新年， 馬邑龍堆路幾千。 家住層城鄰漢苑， 心隨明月到胡天。 機中錦字論長恨， 樓上花枝笑獨眠。 為問天戎竇車騎， 何時返旆勒燕然。

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Huangfu Ran
SPRING THOUGHTS
Finch-notes and swallow-notes tell the new year.... But so far are the Town of the Horse and the Dragon Mound From this our house, from these walls and Han Gardens, That the moon takes my heart to the Tartar sky. I have woven in the frame endless words of my grieving.... Yet this petal-bough is smiling now on my lonely sleep. Oh, ask General Dou when his flags will come home And his triumph be carved on the rock of Yanran mountain!

202
七言律詩
盧綸
晚次鄂州
雲開遠見漢陽城， 猶是孤帆一日程。 估客晝眠知浪靜， 舟人夜語覺潮生。 三湘愁鬢逢秋色， 萬里歸心對月明。 舊業已隨征戰盡， 更堪江上鼓鼙聲。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Lu Lun
A NIGHT-MOORING AT WUCHANG
Far off in the clouds stand the walls of Hanyang, Another day's journey for my lone sail.... Though a river-merchant ought to sleep in this calm weather, I listen to the tide at night and voices of the boatmen. ...My thin hair grows wintry, like the triple Xiang streams, Three thousand miles my heart goes, homesick with the moon; But the war has left me nothing of my heritage -- And oh, the pang of hearing these drums along the river!

203
七言律詩
柳宗元
登柳州城樓寄漳汀封連四州刺史
城上高樓接大荒， 海天愁思正茫茫。 驚風亂颭芙蓉水， 密雨斜侵薜荔牆。 嶺樹重遮千里目， 江流曲似九迴腸。 共來百越文身地， 猶自音書滯一鄉。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Liu Zongyuan
FROM THE CITY-TOWER OF LIUZHOU TO MY FOUR FELLOW-OFFICIALS AT ZHANG, DING, FENG, AND LIAN DISTRICTS
At this lofty tower where the town ends, wilderness begins; And our longing has as far to go as the ocean or the sky.... Hibiscus-flowers by the moat heave in a sudden wind, And vines along the wall are whipped with slanting rain. Nothing to see for three hundred miles but a blur of woods and mountain -- And the river's nine loops, twisting in our bowels.... This is where they have sent us, this land of tattooed people -- And not even letters, to keep us in touch with home.

204
七言律詩
劉禹錫
西塞山懷古
王濬樓船下益州， 金陵王氣黯然收。 千尋鐵鎖沈江底， 一片降旛出石頭。 人世幾回傷往事， 山形依舊枕寒流。 從今四海為家日， 故壘蕭蕭蘆荻秋。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Liu Yuxi
THOUGHTS OF OLD TIME AT WEST FORT MOUNTAIN
Since Wang Jun brought his towering ships down from Yizhou, The royal ghost has pined in the city of Nanjing. Ten thousand feet of iron chain were sunk here to the bottom -- And then came the flag of surrender on the Wall of Stone.... Cycles of change have moved into the past, While still this mountain dignity has commanded the cold river; And now comes the day of the Chinese world united, And the old forts fill with ruin and with autumn reeds.

205
七言律詩
元稹
遣悲懷之一
謝公最小偏憐女， 自嫁黔婁百事乖。 顧我無衣搜藎篋， 泥他沽酒拔金釵。 野蔬充膳甘長藿， 落葉添薪仰古槐。 今日俸錢過十萬， 與君營奠復營齋。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Yuan Zhen
AN ELEGY I
O youngest, best-loved daughter of Xie, Who unluckily married this penniless scholar, You patched my clothes from your own wicker basket, And I coaxed off your hairpins of gold, to buy wine with; For dinner we had to pick wild herbs -- And to use dry locust-leaves for our kindling. ...Today they are paying me a hundred thousand -- And all that I can bring to you is a temple sacrifice.

206
七言律詩
元稹
遣悲懷之二
昔日戲言身後事， 今朝都到眼前來。 衣裳已施行看盡， 針線猶存未忍開。 尚想舊情憐婢僕， 也曾因夢送錢財。 誠知此恨人人有， 貧賤夫妻百事哀。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Yuan Zhen
AN ElEGY II
We joked, long ago, about one of us dying, But suddenly, before my eyes, you are gone. Almost all your clothes have been given away; Your needlework is sealed, I dare not look at it.... I continue your bounty to our men and our maids -- Sometimes, in a dream, I bring you gifts. ...This is a sorrow that all mankind must know -- But not as those know it who have been poor together.

207
七言律詩
元稹
遣悲懷之三
閑坐悲君亦自悲， 百年都是幾多時？ 鄧攸無子尋知命， 潘岳悼亡猶費詞。 同穴窅冥何所望？ 他生緣會更難期。 惟將終夜長開眼， 報答平生未展眉。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Yuan Zhen
AN ELEGY III
I sit here alone, mourning for us both. How many years do I lack now of my threescore and ten? There have been better men than I to whom heaven denied a son, There was a poet better than I whose dead wife could not hear him. What have I to hope for in the darkness of our tomb? You and I had little faith in a meeting after death- Yet my open eyes can see all night That lifelong trouble of your brow.

208
七言律詩
白居易
自河南經亂，關內阻饑，兄弟離散，各在一處。因望月有感，聊書所懷，寄上浮梁大兄，於潛七兄，烏江十五兄，兼示符離及下邽弟妹。
時難年荒世業空， 弟兄羈旅各西東。 田園寥落干戈後， 骨肉流離道路中。 弔影分為千里雁， 辭根散作九秋蓬。 共看明月應垂淚， 一夜鄉心五處同。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Bai Juyi
TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ADRIFT IN TROUBLED TIMES THIS POEM OF THE MOON
Since the disorders in Henan and the famine in Guannei, my brothers and sisters have been scattered. Looking at the moon, I express my thoughts in this poem, which I send to my eldest brother at Fuliang, my seventh brother at Yuqian, My fifteen brother at Wujiang and my younger brothers and sisters at Fuli and Xiagui.
My heritage lost through disorder and famine, My brothers and sisters flung eastward and westward, My fields and gardens wrecked by the war, My own flesh and blood become scum of the street, I moan to my shadow like a lone-wandering wildgoose, I am torn from my root like a water-plant in autumn: I gaze at the moon, and my tears run down For hearts, in five places, all sick with one wish.

209
七言律詩
李商隱
錦瑟
錦瑟無端五十絃， 一絃一柱思華年。 莊生曉夢迷蝴蝶， 望帝春心託杜鵑。 滄海月明珠有淚， 藍田日暖玉生煙。 此情可待成追憶， 只是當時已惘然。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
THE INLAID HARP
I wonder why my inlaid harp has fifty strings, Each with its flower-like fret an interval of youth. ...The sage Chuangzi is day-dreaming, bewitched by butterflies, The spring-heart of Emperor Wang is crying in a cuckoo, Mermen weep their pearly tears down a moon-green sea, Blue fields are breathing their jade to the sun.... And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever Has come and gone before I knew.

210
七言律詩
李商隱
無題
昨夜星辰昨夜風， 畫樓西畔桂堂東。 身無綵鳳雙飛翼， 心有靈犀一點通。 隔座送鉤春酒暖， 分曹射覆蠟燈紅。 嗟余聽鼓應官去， 走馬蘭臺類轉蓬。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED
The stars of last night and the wind of last night Are west of the Painted Chamber and east of Cinnamon Hall. ...Though I have for my body no wings like those of the bright- coloured phoenix, Yet I feel the harmonious heart-beat of the Sacred Unicorn. Across the spring-wine, while it warms me, I prompt you how to bet Where, group by group, we are throwing dice in the light of a crimson lamp; Till the rolling of a drum, alas, calls me to my duties And I mount my horse and ride away, like a water-plant cut adrift.

211
七言律詩
李商隱
隋宮
紫泉宮殿鎖煙霞， 欲取蕪城作帝家。 玉璽不緣歸日角， 錦帆應是到天涯。 於今腐草無螢火， 終古垂楊有暮鴉。 地下若逢陳後主， 豈宜重問後庭花？

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
THE PALACE OF THE SUI EMPEROR
His Palace of Purple Spring has been taken by mist and cloud, As he would have taken all Yangzhou to be his private domain But for the seal of imperial jade being seized by the first Tang Emperor, He would have bounded with his silken sails the limits of the world. Fire-flies are gone now, have left the weathered grasses, But still among the weeping-willows crows perch at twilight. ...If he meets, there underground, the Later Chen Emperor, Do you think that they will mention a Song of Courtyard Flowers?

212
七言律詩
李商隱
無題之一
來是空言去絕蹤， 月斜樓上五更鐘。 夢為遠別啼難喚， 書被催成墨未濃。 蠟照半籠金翡翠， 麝熏微度繡芙蓉。 劉郎已恨蓬山遠， 更隔蓬山一萬重。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED I
You said you would come, but you did not, and you left me with no other trace Than the moonlight on your tower at the fifth-watch bell. I cry for you forever gone, I cannot waken yet, I try to read your hurried note, I find the ink too pale. ...Blue burns your candle in its kingfisher-feather lantern And a sweet breath steals from your hibiscus-broidered curtain. But far beyond my reach is the Enchanted Mountain, And you are on the other side, ten thousand peaks away.

213
七言律詩
李商隱
無題之二
颯颯東風細雨來， 芙蓉塘外有輕雷。 金蟾齧璅燒香入， 玉虎牽絲汲井迴。 賈氏窺簾韓掾少， 宓妃留枕魏王才。 春心莫共花爭發， 一寸想思一寸灰。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED II
A misty rain comes blowing with a wind from the east, And wheels faintly thunder beyond Hibiscus Pool. ...Round the golden-toad lock, incense is creeping; The jade tiger tells, on its cord, of water being drawn A great lady once, from behind a screen, favoured a poor youth; A fairy queen brought a bridal mat once for the ease of a prince and then vanished. ...Must human hearts blossom in spring, like all other flowers? And of even this bright flame of love, shall there be only ashes?

214
七言律詩
李商隱
籌筆驛
猿鳥猶疑畏簡書， 風雲常為護儲胥。 徒令上將揮神筆， 終見降王走傳車。 管樂有才原不忝， 關張無命欲何如？ 他年錦里經祠廟， 梁父吟成恨有餘。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
IN THE CAMP OF THE SKETCHING BRUSH
Monkeys and birds are still alert for your orders And winds and clouds eager to shield your fortress. ...You were master of the brush, and a sagacious general, But your Emperor, defeated, rode the prison-cart. You were abler than even the greatest Zhou statesmen, Yet less fortunate than the two Shu generals who were killed in action. And, though at your birth-place a temple has been built to you, You never finished singing your Song of the Holy Mountain

215
七言律詩
李商隱
無題之三
相見時難別亦難， 東風無力百花殘。 春蠶到死絲方盡， 蠟炬成灰淚始乾。 曉鏡但愁雲鬢改， 夜吟應覺月光寒。 蓬萊此去無多路， 青鳥殷勤為探看。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED III
Time was long before I met her, but is longer since we parted, And the east wind has arisen and a hundred flowers are gone, And the silk-worms of spring will weave until they die And every night the candles will weep their wicks away. Mornings in her mirror she sees her hair-cloud changing, Yet she dares the chill of moonlight with her evening song. ...It is not so very far to her Enchanted Mountain O blue-birds, be listening!-Bring me what she says!

216
七言律詩
李商隱
春雨
悵臥新春白袷衣， 白門寥落意多違。 紅樓隔雨相望冷， 珠箔飄燈獨自歸。 遠路應悲春晼晚， 殘宵猶得夢依稀。 玉璫緘札何由達， 萬里雲羅一雁飛。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
SPRING RAIN
I am lying in a white-lined coat while the spring approaches, But am thinking only of the White Gate City where I cannot be. ...There are two red chambers fronting the cold, hidden by the rain, And a lantern on a pearl screen swaying my lone heart homeward. ...The long road ahead will be full of new hardship, With, late in the nights, brief intervals of dream. Oh, to send you this message, this pair of jade earrings! -- I watch a lonely wildgoose in three thousand miles of cloud.

217
七言律詩
李商隱
無題之四
鳳尾香羅薄幾重， 碧文圓頂夜深縫。 扇裁月魄羞難掩， 車走雷聲語未通。 曾是寂寥金燼暗， 斷無消息石榴紅。 斑騅只繫垂楊岸， 何處西南任好風？

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED IV
A faint phoenix-tail gauze, fragrant and doubled, Lines your green canopy, closed for the night.... Will your shy face peer round a moon-shaped fan, And your voice be heard hushing the rattle of my carriage? It is quiet and quiet where your gold lamp dies, How far can a pomegranate-blossom whisper? ...I will tether my horse to a river willow And wait for the will of the southwest wind.

218
七言律詩
李商隱
無題之五
重帷深下莫愁堂， 臥後清宵細細長。 神女生涯原是夢， 小姑居處本無郎。 風波不信菱枝弱， 月露誰教桂葉香。 直道相思了無益， 未妨惆悵是清狂。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED V
There are many curtains in your care-free house, Where rapture lasts the whole night long. ...What are the lives of angels but dreams If they take no lovers into their rooms? ...Storms are ravishing the nut-horns, Moon- dew sweetening cinnamon-leaves I know well enough naught can come of this union, Yet how it serves to ease my heart!

219
七言律詩
溫庭筠
利洲南渡
澹然空水對斜暉， 曲島蒼茫接翠微。 波上馬嘶看棹去， 柳邊人歇待船歸。 數叢沙草群鷗散， 萬頃江田一鷺飛。 誰解乘舟尋范蠡？ 五湖煙水獨忘機。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Wen Tingyun
NEAR THE LIZHOU FERRY
The sun has set in the water's clear void, And little blue islands are one with the sky. On the bank a horse neighs. A boat goes by. People gather at a willow- clump and wait for the ferry. Down by the sand-bushes sea-gulls are circling, Over the wide river-lands flies an egret. ...Can you guess why I sail, like an ancient wise lover, Through the misty Five Lakes, forgetting words?

220
七言律詩
溫庭筠
蘇武廟
蘇武魂銷漢使前， 古祠高樹兩茫然。 雲邊雁斷胡天月， 隴上羊歸塞草煙。 迴日樓臺非甲帳， 去時冠劍是丁年。 茂陵不見封侯印， 空向秋波哭逝川。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Wen Tingyun
THE TEMPLE OF SU WU
Though our envoy, Su Wu, is gone, body and soul, This temple survives, these trees endure.... Wildgeese through the clouds are still calling to the moon there And hill-sheep unshepherded graze along the border. ...Returning, he found his country changed Since with youthful cap and sword he had left it. His bitter adventures had won him no title.... Autumn-waves endlessly sob in the river.

221
七言律詩
薛逢
宮詞
十二樓中盡曉妝， 望仙樓上望君王。 鎖銜金獸連環冷， 水滴銅龍晝漏長。 雲髻罷梳還對鏡， 羅衣欲換更添香。 遙窺正殿簾開處， 袍褲宮人掃御床。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Xue Feng
A PALACE POEM
In twelve chambers the ladies, decked for the day, Peer afar for their lord from their Fairy-View Lodge; The golden toad guards the lock on the door-chain, And the bronze-dragon water-clock drips through the morning Till one of them, tilting a mirror, combs her cloud of hair And chooses new scent and a change of silk raiment; For she sees, between screen-panels, deep in the palace, Eunuchs in court-dress preparing a bed.

222
七言律詩
秦韜玉
貧女
蓬門未識綺羅香， 擬託良媒益自傷。 誰愛風流高格調， 共憐時世儉梳妝。 敢將十指誇鍼巧， 不把雙眉鬥畫長。 苦恨年年壓金線， 為他人作嫁衣裳。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Qin Taoyu
A POOR GIRL
Living under a thatch roof, never wearing fragrant silk, She longs to arrange a marriage, but how could she dare? Who would know her simple face the loveliest of them all When we choose for worldliness, not for worth? Her fingers embroider beyond compare, But she cannot vie with painted brows; And year after year she has sewn gold thread On bridal robes for other girls.

223
樂府
沈佺期
古意呈補闕喬知之
盧家少婦鬱金香， 海燕雙棲玳瑁梁。 九月寒砧催木葉， 十年征戍憶遼陽。 白狼河北音書斷， 丹鳳城南秋夜長。 誰為含愁獨不見， 更教明月照流黃。
又作獨不見

Folk-song-styled-verse
Shen Quanqi
BEYOND SEEING
A girl of the Lu clan who lives in Golden-Wood Hall, Where swallows perch in pairs on beams of tortoiseshell, Hears the washing-mallets' cold beat shake the leaves down. ...The Liaoyang expedition will be gone ten years, And messages are lost in the White Wolf River. ...Here in the City of the Red Phoenix autumn nights are long, Where one who is heart-sick to see beyond seeing, Sees only moonlight on the yellow-silk wave of her loom.

224
五言絕句
王維
鹿柴
空山不見人， 但聞人語響。 返景入深林， 復照青苔上。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
DEER-PARK HERMITAGE
There seems to be no one on the empty mountain.... And yet I think I hear a voice, Where sunlight, entering a grove, Shines back to me from the green moss.

225
五言絕句
王維
竹里館
獨坐幽篁裡， 彈琴復長嘯。 深林人不知， 明月來相照。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
IN A RETREAT AMONG BAMBOOS
Leaning alone in the close bamboos, I am playing my lute and humming a song Too softly for anyone to hear -- Except my comrade, the bright moon.

226
五言絕句
王維
送別
山中相送罷， 日暮掩柴扉。 春草明年綠， 王孫歸不歸。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
A PARTING
Friend, I have watched you down the mountain Till now in the dark I close my thatch door.... Grasses return again green in the spring, But O my Prince of Friends, do you?

227
五言絕句
王維
相思
紅豆生南國， 春來發幾枝。 願君多采擷， 此物最相思。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
ONE-HEARTED
When those red berries come in springtime, Flushing on your southland branches, Take home an armful, for my sake, As a symbol of our love.

228
五言絕句
王維
雜詩
君自故鄉來， 應知故鄉事。 來日綺窗前， 寒梅著花未。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
LINES
You who have come from my old country, Tell me what has happened there ! -- Was the plum, when you passed my silken window, Opening its first cold blossom?

229
五言絕句
裴迪
送崔九
歸山深淺去， 須盡丘壑美。 莫學武陵人， 暫遊桃源裡。

Five-character-quatrain
Pei Di
A FAREWELL TO CUI
Though you think to return to this maze of mountains, Oh, let them brim your heart with wonder!.... Remember the fisherman from Wuling Who had only a day in the Peach-Blossom Country.

230
五言絕句
祖詠
終南望餘雪
終南陰嶺秀， 積雪浮雲端。 林表明霽色， 城中增暮寒。

Five-character-quatrain
Zu Young
ON SEEING THE SNOW-PEAK OF ZHONGNAN
See how Zhongnan Mountain soars With its white top over floating clouds -- And a warm sky opening at the snow-line While the town in the valley grows colder and colder.

231
五言絕句
孟浩然
宿建德江
移舟泊煙渚， 日暮客愁新。 野曠天低樹， 江清月近人。

Five-character-quatrain
Meng Haoran
A NIGHT-MOORING ON THE JIANDE RIVER
While my little boat moves on its mooring of mist, And daylight wanes, old memories begin.... How wide the world was, how close the trees to heaven, And how clear in the water the nearness of the moon!

232
五言絕句
孟浩然
春曉
春眠不覺曉， 處處聞啼鳥。 夜來風雨聲， 花落知多少。

Five-character-quatrain
Meng Haoran
A SPRING MORNING
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, Everywhere round me the singing of birds -- But now I remember the night, the storm, And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.

233
五言絕句
李白
夜思
床前明月光， 疑是地上霜。 舉頭望明月， 低頭思故鄉。

Five-character-quatrain
Li Bai
IN THE QUIET NIGHT
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed -- Could there have been a frost already? Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight. Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.

234
五言絕句
李白
怨情
美人捲珠簾， 深坐蹙蛾眉。 但見淚痕濕， 不知心恨誰。

Five-character-quatrain
Li Bai
A BITTER LOVE
How beautiful she looks, opening the pearly casement, And how quiet she leans, and how troubled her brow is! You may see the tears now, bright on her cheek, But not the man she so bitterly loves.

235
五言絕句
杜甫
八陣圖
功蓋三分國， 名成八陣圖。 江流石不轉， 遺恨失吞吳。

Five-character-quatrain
Du Fu
THE EIGHT-SIDED FORTRESS
The Three Kingdoms, divided, have been bound by his greatness. The Eight-Sided Fortress is founded on his fame; Beside the changing river, it stands stony as his grief That he never conquered the Kingdom of Wu.

236
五言絕句
王之渙
登鸛雀樓
白日依山盡， 黃河入海流。 欲窮千里目， 更上一層樓。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Zhihuan
AT HERON LODGE
Mountains cover the white sun, And oceans drain the golden river; But you widen your view three hundred miles By going up one flight of stairs.

237
五言絕句
劉長卿
送靈澈
蒼蒼竹林寺， 杳杳鐘聲晚。 荷笠帶斜陽， 青山獨歸遠。

Five-character-quatrain
Liu Changqing
ON PARTING WITH THE BUDDHIST PILGRIM LING CHE
From the temple, deep in its tender bamboos, Comes the low sound of an evening bell, While the hat of a pilgrim carries the sunset Farther and farther down the green mountain.

238
五言絕句
劉長卿
彈琴
泠泠七絃上， 靜聽松風寒。 古調雖自愛， 今人多不彈。

Five-character-quatrain
Liu Changqing
ON HEARING A LUTE-PLAYER
Your seven strings are like the voice Of a cold wind in the pines, Singing old beloved songs Which no one cares for any more.

239
五言絕句
劉長卿
送上人
孤雲將野鶴， 豈向人間住。 莫買沃洲山， 時人已知處。

Five-character-quatrain
Liu Changqing
FAREWELL TO A BUDDHIST MONK
Can drifting clouds and white storks Be tenants in this world of ours? -- Or you still live on Wuzhou Mountain, Now that people are coming here?

240
五言絕句
韋應物
秋夜寄邱員外
懷君屬秋夜， 散步詠涼天。 空山松子落， 幽人應未眠。

Five-character-quatrain
Wei Yingwu
AN AUTUMN NIGHT MESSAGE TO QIU
As I walk in the cool of the autumn night, Thinking of you, singing my poem, I hear a mountain pine-cone fall.... You also seem to be awake.

241
五言絕句
李端
聽箏
鳴箏金粟柱， 素手玉房前。 欲得周郎顧， 時時誤拂絃。

Five-character-quatrain
Li Duan
ON HEARING HER PLAY THE HARP
Her hands of white jade by a window of snow Are glimmering on a golden-fretted harp -- And to draw the quick eye of Chou Yu, She touches a wrong note now and then.

242
五言絕句
王建
新嫁娘
三日入廚下， 洗手作羹湯。 未諳姑食性， 先遣小姑嘗。

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Jian
A BRIDE
On the third day, taking my place to cook, Washing my hands to make the bridal soup, I decide that not my mother-in-law But my husband's young sister shall have the fiat taste.

243
五言絕句
權德輿
玉臺體
昨夜裙帶解， 今朝蟢子飛。 鉛華不可棄， 莫是□砧歸。

Five-character-quatrain
Quan Deyu
THE JADE DRESSING-TABLE
Last night my girdle came undone, And this morning a luck-beetle flew over my bed. So here are my paints and here are my powders -- And a welcome for my yoke again.

244
五言絕句
柳宗元
江雪
千山鳥飛絕， 萬徑人蹤滅。 孤舟簑笠翁， 獨釣寒江雪。

Five-character-quatrain
Liu Zongyuan
RIVER-SNOW
A hundred mountains and no bird, A thousand paths without a footprint; A little boat, a bamboo cloak, An old man fishing in the cold river-snow.

245
五言絕句
元稹
行宮
寥落古行宮， 宮花寂寞紅。 白頭宮女在， 閒坐說玄宗。

Five-character-quatrain
Yuan Zhen
THE SUMMER PALACE
In the faded old imperial palace, Peonies are red, but no one comes to see them.... The ladies-in-waiting have grown white-haired Debating the pomps of Emperor Xuanzong.

246
五言絕句
白居易
問劉十九
綠螘新醅酒， 紅泥小火爐。 晚來天欲雪， 能飲一杯無。

Five-character-quatrain
Bai Juyi
A SUGGESTION TO MY FRIEND LIU
There's a gleam of green in an old bottle, There's a stir of red in the quiet stove, There's a feeling of snow in the dusk outside -- What about a cup of wine inside?

247
五言絕句
張祜
何滿子
故國三千里， 深宮二十年。 一聲何滿子， 雙淚落君前。

Five-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu
SHE SINGS AN OLD SONG
A lady of the palace these twenty years, She has lived here a thousand miles from her home- Yet ask her for this song and, with the first few words of it, See how she tries to hold back her tears.

248
五言絕句
李商隱
登樂遊原
向晚意不適， 驅車登古原。 夕陽無限好， 只是近黃昏。

Five-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
THE LEYOU TOMBS
With twilight shadows in my heart I have driven up among the Leyou Tombs To see the sun, for all his glory, Buried by the coming night.

249
五言絕句
賈島
尋隱者不遇
松下問童子， 言師採藥去。 只在此山中， 雲深不知處。

Five-character-quatrain
Jia Dao
A NOTE LEFT FOR AN ABSENT ECLUSE
When I questioned your pupil, under a pine-tree, "My teacher," he answered, " went for herbs, But toward which corner of the mountain, How can I tell, through all these clouds ?"

250
五言絕句
李頻
渡漢江
嶺外音書絕， 經冬復立春。 近鄉情更怯， 不敢問來人。

Five-character-quatrain
Li Pin
CROSSING THE HAN RIVER
Away from home, I was longing for news Winter after winter, spring after spring. Now, nearing my village, meeting people, I dare not ask a single question.

251
五言絕句
金昌緒
春怨
打起黃鶯兒， 莫教枝上啼。 啼時驚妾夢， 不得到遼西。

Five-character-quatrain
Jin Changzu
A SPRING SIGH
Drive the orioles away, All their music from the trees.... When she dreamed that she went to Liaoxi Camp To join him there, they wakened her

252
五言絕句
西鄙人
哥舒歌
北斗七星高， 哥舒夜帶刀。 至今窺牧馬， 不敢過臨洮。

Five-character-quatrain
Xibiren
GENERAL GE SHU
This constellation, with its seven high stars, Is Ge Shu lifting his sword in the night: And no more barbarians, nor their horses, nor cattle, Dare ford the river boundary.

253
樂府
崔顥
長干行二首之一
君家何處住， 妾住在橫塘。 停船暫借問， 或恐是同鄉。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Cui Hao
A SONG OF CHANGGAN I
"Tell me, where do you live? -- Near here, by the fishing-pool? Let's hold our boats together, let's see If we belong in the same town."

254
樂府
崔顥
長干行二首之二
家臨九江水， 來去九江側。 同是長干人， 生小不相識。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Cui Hao
A SONG OF CHANGGAN II
"Yes, I live here, by the river; I have sailed on it many and many a time. Both of us born in Changgan, you and I! Why haven't we always known each other?"

255
樂府
李白
玉階怨
玉階生白露， 夜久侵羅襪。 卻下水晶簾， 玲瓏望秋月。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SIGH FROM A STAIRCASE OF JADE
Her jade-white staircase is cold with dew; Her silk soles are wet, she lingered there so long.... Behind her closed casement, why is she still waiting, Watching through its crystal pane the glow of the autumn moon?

256
樂府
盧綸
塞下曲四首之一
鷲翎金僕姑， 燕尾繡蝥弧。 獨立揚新令， 千營共一呼。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Lu Lun
BORDER-SONGS I
His golden arrow is tipped with hawk's feathers, His embroidered silk flag has a tail like a swallow. One man, arising, gives a new order To the answering shout of a thousand tents.

257
樂府
盧綸
塞下曲四首之二
林暗草驚風， 將軍夜引弓。 平明尋白羽， 沒在石稜中。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Lu Lun
BORDER-SONGS II
The woods are black and a wind assails the grasses, Yet the general tries night archery -- And next morning he finds his white-plumed arrow Pointed deep in the hard rock.

258
樂府
盧綸
塞下曲四首之三
月黑雁飛高， 單于夜遁逃。 欲將輕騎逐， 大雪滿弓刀。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Lu Lun
BORDER-SONGS III
High in the faint moonlight, wildgeese are soaring. Tartar chieftains are fleeing through the dark -- And we chase them, with horses lightly burdened And a burden of snow on our bows and our swords.

259
樂府
盧綸
塞下曲四首之四
野幕蔽瓊筵， 羌戎賀勞旋。 醉和金甲舞， 雷鼓動山川。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Lu Lun
BORDER-SONGS IV
Let feasting begin in the wild camp! Let bugles cry our victory! Let us drink, let us dance in our golden armour! Let us thunder on rivers and hills with our drums!

260
樂府
李益
江南曲
嫁得瞿塘賈， 朝朝誤妾期。 早知潮有信， 嫁與弄潮兒。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Yi
A SONG OF THE SOUTHERN RIVER
Since I married the merchant of Qutang He has failed each day to keep his word.... Had I thought how regular the tide is, I might rather have chosen a river-boy.

261
七言絕句
賀知章
回鄉偶書
少小離家老大回， 鄉音無改鬢毛衰； 兒童相見不相識， 笑問客從何處來。

Seven-character-quatrain
He Zhizhang
COMING HOME
I left home young. I return old; Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin; And my children, meeting me, do not know me. They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"

262
七言絕句
張旭
桃花谿
隱隱飛橋隔野煙， 石磯西畔問漁船； 桃花盡日隨流水， 洞在清谿何處邊？
又作溪

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Xu
PEACH-BLOSSOM RIVER
A bridge flies away through a wild mist, Yet here are the rocks and the fisherman's boat. Oh, if only this river of floating peach-petals Might lead me at last to the mythical cave!

263
七言絕句
王維
九月九日憶山東兄弟
獨在異鄉為異客， 每逢佳節倍思親。 遙知兄弟登高處， 遍插茱萸少一人。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
ON THE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY THINKING OF MY BROTHERS IN SHANDONG
All alone in a foreign land, I am twice as homesick on this day When brothers carry dogwood up the mountain, Each of them a branch-and my branch missing.

264
七言絕句
王昌齡
芙蓉樓送辛漸
寒雨連江夜入吳， 平明送客楚山孤。 洛陽親友如相問， 一片冰心在玉壺。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wang Changling
AT HIBISCUS INN PARTING WITH XIN JIAN
With this cold night-rain hiding the river, you have come into Wu. In the level dawn, all alone, you will be starting for the mountains of Chu. Answer, if they ask of me at Loyang: "One-hearted as ice in a crystal vase."

265
七言絕句
王昌齡
閨怨
閨中少婦不知愁， 春日凝妝上翠樓。 忽見陌頭楊柳色， 悔教夫婿覓封侯。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wang Changling
IN HER QUIET WINDOW
Too young to have learned what sorrow means, Attired for spring, she climbs to her high chamber.... The new green of the street-willows is wounding her heart -- Just for a title she sent him to war.

266
七言絕句
王昌齡
春宮曲
昨夜風開露井桃， 未央前殿月輪高。 平陽歌舞新承寵， 簾外春寒賜錦袍。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wang Changling
A SONG OF THE SPRING PALACE
Last night, while a gust blew peach-petals open And the moon shone high on the Palace Beyond Time, The Emperor gave Pingyang, for her dancing, Brocades against the cold spring-wind.

267
七言絕句
王翰
涼州詞
葡萄美酒夜光杯， 欲飲琵琶馬上催。 醉臥沙場君莫笑， 古來征戰幾人回。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wang Han
A SONG OF LIANGZHOU
They sing, they drain their cups of jade, They strum on horseback their guitars. ...Why laugh when they fall asleep drunk on the sand ? -- How many soldiers ever come home?

268
七言絕句
李白
送孟浩然之廣陵
故人西辭黃鶴樓， 煙花三月下揚州。 孤帆遠影碧空盡， 惟見長江天際流。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Bai
A FAREWELL TO MENG HAORAN ON HIS WAY TO YANGZHOU
You have left me behind, old friend, at the Yellow Crane Terrace, On your way to visit Yangzhou in the misty month of flowers; Your sail, a single shadow, becomes one with the blue sky, Till now I see only the river, on its way to heaven.

269
七言絕句
李白
下江陵
朝辭白帝彩雲間， 千里江陵一日還。 兩岸猿聲啼不住， 輕舟已過萬重山。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Bai
THROUGH THE YANGZI GORGES
From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

270
七言絕句
岑參
逢入京使
故園東望路漫漫， 雙袖龍鐘淚不乾。 馬上相逢無紙筆， 憑君傳語報平安。

Seven-character-quatrain
Cen Can
ON MEETING A MESSENGER TO THE CAPITAL
It's a long way home, a long way east. I am old and my sleeve is wet with tears. We meet on horseback. I have no means of writing. Tell them three words: "He is safe."

271
七言絕句
杜甫
江南逢李龜年
岐王宅裡尋常見， 崔九堂前幾度聞。 正是江南好風景， 落花時節又逢君。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Fu
ON MEETING LI GUINIAN DOWN THE RIVER
I met you often when you were visiting princes And when you were playing in noblemen's halls. ...Spring passes.... Far down the river now, I find you alone under falling petals.

272
七言絕句
韋應物
滁州西澗
獨憐幽草澗邊生， 上有黃鸝深樹鳴。 春潮帶雨晚來急， 野渡無人舟自橫。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wei Yingwu
AT CHUZHOU ON THE WESTERN STREAM
Where tender grasses rim the stream And deep boughs trill with mango-birds, On the spring flood of last night's rain The ferry-boat moves as though someone were poling.

273
七言絕句
張繼
楓橋夜泊
月落烏啼霜滿天， 江楓漁火對愁眠。 姑蘇城外寒山寺， 夜半鐘聲到客船。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Ji
A NIGHT-MOORING NEAR MAPLE BRIDGE
While I watch the moon go down, a crow caws through the frost; Under the shadows of maple-trees a fisherman moves with his torch; And I hear, from beyond Suzhou, from the temple on Cold Mountain, Ringing for me, here in my boat, the midnight bell.

274
七言絕句
韓翃
寒食
春城無處不飛花， 寒食東風御柳斜。 日暮漢宮傳蠟燭， 輕煙散入五侯家。

Seven-character-quatrain
Han Hong
AFTER THE DAY OF NO FIRE
Petals of spring fly all through the city From the wind in the willows of the Imperial River. And at dusk, from the palace, candles are given out To light first the mansions of the Five Great Lords.

275
七言絕句
劉方平
月夜
更深月色半人家， 北斗闌干南斗斜。 今夜偏知春氣暖， 蟲聲新透綠窗沙。

Seven-character-quatrain
Liu Fangping
A MOONLIGHT NIGHT
When the moon has coloured half the house, With the North Star at its height and the South Star setting, I can fed the first motions of the warm air of spring In the singing of an insect at my green-silk window.

276
七言絕句
劉方平
春怨
紗窗日落漸黃昏， 金屋無人見淚痕。 寂寞空庭春欲晚， 梨花滿地不開門。

Seven-character-quatrain
Liu Fangping
SPRING HEART-BREAK
With twilight passing her silken window, She weeps alone in her chamber of gold For spring is departing from a desolate garden, And a drift of pear-petals is closing a door.

277
七言絕句
柳中庸
征人怨
歲歲金河復玉關， 朝朝馬策與刀環。 三春白雪歸青塚， 萬里黃河繞黑山。

Seven-character-quatrain
Liu Zhongyong
A TROOPER'S BURDEN
For years, to guard the Jade Pass and the River of Gold, With our hands on our horse-whips and our swordhilts, We have watched the green graves change to snow And the Yellow Stream ring the Black Mountain forever.

278
七言絕句
顧況
宮詞
玉樓天半起笙歌， 風送宮嬪笑語和。 月殿影開聞夜漏， 水晶簾捲近秋河。

Seven-character-quatrain
Gu Kuang
A PALACE POEM
High above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven, The palace-girls' gay voices are mingled with the wind -- But now they are still, and you hear a water-clock drip in the Court of the Moon.... They have opened the curtain wide, they are facing the River of Stars.

279
七言絕句
李益
夜上受降城聞笛
回樂峰前沙似雪， 受降城外月如霜。 不知何處吹蘆管， 一夜征人盡望鄉。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Yi
ON HEARING A FLUTE AT NIGHT FROM THE WALL OF SHOUXIANG
The sand below the border-mountain lies like snow, And the moon like frost beyond the city-wall, And someone somewhere, playing a flute, Has made the soldiers homesick all night long.

280
七言絕句
劉禹錫
烏衣巷
朱雀橋邊野草花， 烏衣巷口夕陽斜。 舊時王謝堂前燕， 飛入尋常百姓家。

Seven-character-quatrain
Liu Yuxi
BLACKTAIL ROW
Grass has run wild now by the Bridge of Red-Birds; And swallows' wings, at sunset, in Blacktail Row Where once they visited great homes, Dip among doorways of the poor.

281
七言絕句
劉禹錫
春詞
新妝宜面下朱樓， 深鎖春光一院愁。 行到中庭數花朵， 蜻蜓飛上玉搔頭。

Seven-character-quatrain
Liu Yuxi
A SPRING SONG
In gala robes she comes down from her chamber Into her courtyard, enclosure of spring.... When she tries from the centre to count the flowers, On her hairpin of jade a dragon-fly poises.

282
七言絕句
白居易
後宮詞
淚濕羅巾夢不成， 夜深前殿按歌聲。 紅顏未老恩先斷， 斜倚薰籠坐到明。

Seven-character-quatrain
Bai Juyi
A SONG OF THE PALACE
Her tears are spent, but no dreams come. She can hear the others singing through the night. She has lost his love. Alone with her beauty, She leans till dawn on her incense-pillow.

283
七言絕句
張祜
贈內人
禁門宮樹月痕過， 媚眼惟看宿鷺窠。 斜拔玉釵燈影畔， 剔開紅燄救飛蛾。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu
OF ONE IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY
When the moonlight, reaching a tree by the gate, Shows her a quiet bird on its nest, She removes her jade hairpins and sits in the shadow And puts out a flame where a moth was flying.

284
七言絕句
張祜
集靈臺之一
日光斜照集靈台， 紅樹花迎曉露開。 昨夜上皇新授籙， 太真含笑入簾來。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu
ON THE TERRACE OF ASSEMBLED ANGELS I
The sun has gone slanting over a lordly roof And red-blossoming branches have leaned toward the dew Since the Emperor last night summoned a new favourite And Lady Yang's bright smile came through the curtains.

285
七言絕句
張祜
集靈臺之二
虢國夫人承主恩， 平明騎馬入宮門。 卻嫌脂粉污顏色， 淡掃蛾眉朝至尊。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu
ON THE TERRACE OF ASSEMBLED ANGELS II
The Emperor has sent for Lady Guoguo. In the morning, riding toward the palace-gate, Disdainful of the paint that might have marred her beauty, To meet him she smooths her two moth-tiny eyebrows.

286
七言絕句
張祜
題金陵渡
金陵津渡小山樓， 一宿行人自可愁。 潮落夜江斜月裡， 兩三星火是瓜州。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu
AT NANJING FERRY
This one-story inn at Nanjing ferry Is a miserable lodging-place for the night -- But across the dead moon's ebbing tide, Lights from Guazhou beckon on the river.

287
七言絕句
朱慶餘
宮詞
寂寂花時閉院門， 美人相並立瓊軒。 含情欲說宮中事， 鸚鵡前頭不敢言。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhu Qingyu
A SONG OF THE PALACE
Now that the palace-gate has softly closed on its flowers, Ladies file out to their pavilion of jade, Abrim to the lips with imperial gossip But not daring to breathe it with a parrot among them.

288
七言絕句
朱慶餘
近試上張水部
洞房昨夜停紅燭， 待曉堂前拜舅姑。 妝罷低聲問夫婿， 畫眉深淺入時無。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhu Qingyu
ON THE EVE OF GOVERNMENT EXAMINATIONS TO SECRETARY ZHANG
Out go the great red wedding-chamber candles. Tomorrow in state the bride faces your parents. She has finished preparing; she asks of you meekly Whether her eyebrows are painted in fashion.

289
七言絕句
杜牧
將赴吳興登樂遊原
清時有味是無能， 閒愛孤雲靜愛僧。 欲把一麾江海去， 樂遊原上望昭陵。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
I CLIMB TO THE LEYOU TOMBS BEFORE LEAVING FOR WUXING
Even in this good reign, how can I serve? The lone cloud rather, the Buddhist peace.... Once more, before crossing river and sea, I face the great Emperor's mountain-tomb.

290
七言絕句
杜牧
赤壁
折戟沈沙鐵未銷， 自將磨洗認前朝。 東風不與周郎便， 銅雀春深鎖二喬。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
BY THE PURPLE CLIFF
On a part of a spear still unrusted in the sand I have burnished the symbol of an ancient kingdom.... Except for a wind aiding General Zhou Yu, Spring would have sealed both Qiao girls in CopperBird Palace.

291
七言絕句
杜牧
泊秦淮
煙籠寒水月籠沙， 夜泊秦淮近酒家。 商女不知亡國恨， 隔江猶唱後庭花。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
A MOORING ON THE QIN HUAI RIVER
Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand, As I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern, Where girls, with no thought of a perished kingdom, Gaily echo A Song of Courtyard Flowers.

292
七言絕句
杜牧
寄揚州韓綽判官
青山隱隱水迢迢， 秋盡江南草未凋。 二十四橋明月夜， 玉人何處教吹簫。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
A MESSAGE TO HAN CHO THE YANGZHOU MAGISTRATE
There are faint green mountains and far green waters, And grasses in this river region not yet faded by autumn; And clear in the moon on the Twenty-Four Bridges, Girls white as jade are teaching flute-music.

293
七言絕句
杜牧
遣懷
落魄江湖載酒行， 楚腰纖細掌中輕。 十年一覺揚州夢， 贏得青樓薄倖名。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
A CONFESSION
With my wine-bottle, watching by river and lake For a lady so tiny as to dance on my palm, I awake, after dreaming ten years in Yangzhou, Known as fickle, even in the Street of Blue Houses.

294
七言絕句
杜牧
秋夕
銀燭秋光冷畫屏， 輕羅小扇撲流螢。 天階夜色涼如水， 坐看牽牛織女星。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
IN THE AUTUMN NIGHT
Her candle-light is silvery on her chill bright screen. Her little silk fan is for fireflies.... She lies watching her staircase cold in the moon, And two stars parted by the River of Heaven.

295
七言絕句
杜牧
贈別之一
娉娉嫋嫋十三餘， 豆蔻梢頭二月初。 春風十里揚州路， 卷上珠簾總不如。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
PARTING I
She is slim and supple and not yet fourteen, The young spring-tip of a cardamon-spray. On the Yangzhou Road for three miles in the breeze Every pearl-screen is open. But there's no one like her.

296
七言絕句
杜牧
贈別之二
多情卻似總無情， 唯覺樽前笑不成。 蠟燭有心還惜別， 替人垂淚到天明。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
Parting II
How can a deep love seem deep love, How can it smile, at a farewell feast? Even the candle, feeling our sadness, Weeps, as we do, all night long.

297
七言絕句
杜牧
金谷園
繁華事散逐香塵， 流水無情草自春。 日暮東風怨啼鳥， 落花猶似墜樓人。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu
THE GARDEN OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY
Stories of passion make sweet dust, Calm water, grasses unconcerned. At sunset, when birds cry in the wind, Petals are falling like a girl s robe long ago.

298
七言絕句
李商隱
夜雨寄北
君問歸期未有期， 巴山夜雨漲秋池。 何當共剪西窗燭， 卻話巴山夜雨時。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
NOTE ON A RAINY NIGHT TO A FRIEND IN THE NORTH
You ask me when I am coming. I do not know. I dream of your mountains and autumn pools brimming all night with the rain. Oh, when shall we be trimming wicks again, together in your western window? When shall I be hearing your voice again, all night in the rain?

299
七言絕句
李商隱
寄令狐郎中
嵩雲秦樹久離居， 雙鯉迢迢一紙筆。 休問梁園舊賓客， 茂陵秋雨病相如。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
A MESSAGE TO SECRETARY LINGHU
I am far from the clouds of Sung Mountain, a long way from trees in Qin; And I send to you a message carried by two carp: -- Absent this autumn from the Prince's garden, There's a poet at Maoling sick in the rain.

300
七言絕句
李商隱
為有
為有雲屏無限嬌， 鳳城寒盡怕春宵。 無端嫁得金龜婿， 辜負香衾事早朝。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
THERE IS ONLY ONE
There is only one Carved-Cloud, exquisite always- Yet she dreads the spring, blowing cold in the palace, When her husband, a Knight of the Golden Tortoise, Will leave her sweet bed, to be early at court.

301
七言絕句
李商隱
隋宮
乘興南遊不戒嚴， 九重誰省諫書函。 春風舉國裁宮錦， 半作障泥半作帆。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
THE SUI PALACE
When gaily the Emperor toured the south Contrary to every warning, His whole empire cut brocades, Half for wheel-guards, half for sails.

302
七言絕句
李商隱
瑤池
瑤池阿母綺窗開， 黃竹歌聲動地哀。 八駿日行三萬里， 穆王何事不重來。

Seven-character-quatrain
LI SHANGYIN
THE JADE POOL
The Mother of Heaven, in her window by the Jade Pool, Hears The Yellow Bamboo Song shaking the whole earth. Where is Emperor Mu, with his eight horses running Ten thousand miles a day? Why has he never come back?

303
七言絕句
李商隱
嫦娥
雲母屏風燭影深， 長河漸落曉星沈。 嫦娥應悔偷靈藥， 碧海青天夜夜心。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
TO THE MOON GODDESS
Now that a candle-shadow stands on the screen of carven marble And the River of Heaven slants and the morning stars are low, Are you sorry for having stolen the potion that has set you Over purple seas and blue skies, to brood through the long nights?

304
七言絕句
李商隱
賈生
宣室求賢訪逐臣， 賈生才調更無倫。 可憐夜半虛前席， 不問蒼生問鬼神。

Seven-character-quatrain
Li Shangyin
JIASHENG
When the Emperor sought guidance from wise men, from exiles, He found no calmer wisdom than that of young Jia And assigned him the foremost council-seat at midnight, Yet asked him about gods, instead of about people.

305
七言絕句
溫庭筠
瑤瑟怨
冰簟銀床夢不成， 碧天如水夜雲輕。 雁聲遠過瀟湘去， 十二樓中月自明。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wen Tingyun
SHE SIGHS ON HER JADE LUTE
A cool-matted silvery bed; but no dreams.... An evening sky as green as water, shadowed with tender clouds; But far off over the southern rivers the calling of a wildgoose, And here a twelve-story building, lonely under the moon.

306
七言絕句
鄭畋
馬嵬坡
玄宗回馬楊妃死， 雲雨難忘日月新。 終是聖明天子事， 景陽宮井又何人。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zheng Tian
ON MAWEI SLOPE
When the Emperor came back from his ride they had murdered Lady Yang -- That passion unforgettable through all the suns and moons They had led him to forsake her by reminding him Of an emperor slain with his lady once, in a well at Jingyang Palace.

307
七言絕句
韓偓
已涼
碧闌干外繡簾垂， 猩色屏風畫折枝。 八尺龍鬚方錦褥， 已涼天氣未寒時。

Seven-character-quatrain
Han Wu
COOLER WEATHER
Her jade-green alcove curtained thick with silk, Her vermilion screen with its pattern of flowers, Her eight- foot dragon-beard mat and her quilt brocaded in squares Are ready now for nights that are neither warm nor cold.

308
七言絕句
韋莊
金陵圖
江雨霏霏江草齊， 六朝如夢鳥空啼。 無情最是臺城柳， 依舊煙籠十里堤。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wei Zhuang
A NANJING LANDSCAPE
Though a shower bends the river-grass, a bird is singing, While ghosts of the Six Dynasties pass like a dream Around the Forbidden City, under weeping willows Which loom still for three miles along the misty moat.

309
七言絕句
陳陶
隴西行
誓掃匈奴不顧身， 五千貂錦喪胡塵。 可憐無定河邊骨， 猶是深閨夢裡人。

Seven-character-quatrain
Chen Tao
TURKESTAN
Thinking only of their vow that they would crush the Tartars- - On the desert, clad in sable and silk, five thousand of them fell.... But arisen from their crumbling bones on the banks of the river at the border, Dreams of them enter, like men alive, into rooms where their loves lie sleeping.

310
七言絕句
張泌
寄人
別夢依依到謝家， 小廊回合曲闌斜。 多情只有春庭月， 猶為離人照落花。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Bi
A MESSAGE
I go in a dream to the house of Xie Through a zigzag porch with arching rails To a court where the spring moon lights for ever Phantom flowers and a single figure.

311
七言絕句
無名氏
雜詩
盡寒食雨草萋萋， 著麥苗風柳映堤。 等是有家歸未得， 杜鵑休向耳邊啼。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wumingshi
THE DAY OF NO FIRE
As the holiday approaches, and grasses are bright after rain, And the causeway gleams with willows, and wheatfields wave in the wind, We are thinking of our kinsfolk, far away from us. O cuckoo, why do you follow us, why do you call us home?

312
樂府
王維
渭城曲
渭城朝雨浥輕塵， 客舍青青柳色新。 勸君更盡一杯酒， 西出陽關無故人。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Wang Wei
A SONG AT WEICHENG
A morning-rain has settled the dust in Weicheng; Willows are green again in the tavern dooryard.... Wait till we empty one more cup -- West of Yang Gate there'll be no old friends.

313
樂府
王維
秋夜曲
桂魄初生秋露微， 輕羅已薄未更衣。 銀箏夜久殷勤弄， 心怯空房不忍歸。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Wang Wei
A SONG OF AN AUTUMN NIGHT
Under the crescent moon a light autumn dew Has chilled the robe she will not change -- And she touches a silver lute all night, Afraid to go back to her empty room.

314
樂府
王昌齡
長信怨
奉帚平明金殿開， 且將團扇共徘徊。 玉顏不及寒鴉色， 猶帶昭陽日影來。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Wang Changling
A SIGH IN THE COURT OF PERPETUAL FAITH
She brings a broom at dawn to the Golden Palace doorway And dusts the hall from end to end with her round fan, And, for all her jade-whiteness, she envies a crow Whose cold wings are kindled in the Court of the Bright Sun.

315
樂府
王昌齡
出塞
秦時明月漢時關， 萬里長征人未還。 但使龍城飛將在， 不教胡馬渡陰山。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Wang Changling
OVER THE BORDER
The moon goes back to the time of Qin, the wall to the time of Han, And the road our troops are travelling goes back three hundred miles.... Oh, for the Winged General at the Dragon City -- That never a Tartar horseman might cross the Yin Mountains!

316
樂府
王之渙
出塞
黃河遠上白雲間， 一片孤城萬仞山。 羌笛何須怨楊柳， 春風不度玉門關。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Wang Zhihuan
BEYOND THE BORDER
Where a yellow river climbs to the white clouds, Near the one city-wall among ten-thousand-foot mountains, A Tartar under the willows is lamenting on his flute That spring never blows to him through the Jade Pass

317
樂府
李白
清平調之一
雲想衣裳花想容， 春風拂檻露華濃。 若非群玉山頭見， 會向瑤臺月下逢。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SONG OF PURE HAPPINESS I
Her robe is a cloud, her face a flower; Her balcony, glimmering with the bright spring dew, Is either the tip of earth's Jade Mountain Or a moon- edged roof of paradise.

318
樂府
李白
清平調之二
一枝紅豔露凝香， 雲雨巫山枉斷腸。 借問漢宮誰得似， 可憐飛燕倚新妝。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SONG OF PURE HAPPINESS II
There's a perfume stealing moist from a shaft of red blossom, And a mist, through the heart, from the magical Hill of Wu- - The palaces of China have never known such beauty- Not even Flying Swallow with all her glittering garments.

319
樂府
李白
清平調之三
名花傾國兩相歡， 常得君王帶笑看。 解釋春風無限恨， 沈香亭北倚闌干。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SONG OF PURE HAPPINESS III
Lovely now together, his lady and his flowers Lighten for ever the Emperor's eye, As he listens to the sighing of the far spring wind Where she leans on a railing in the Aloe Pavilion.

320
樂府
杜秋娘
金縷衣
勸君莫惜金縷衣， 勸君惜取少年時。 花開堪折直須折， 莫待無花空折枝。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Du Qiuniang
THE GOLD-THREADED ROBE
Covet not a gold-threaded robe, Cherish only your young days! If a bud open, gather it -- Lest you but wait for an empty bough.

Three Hundred Tang Poems (101-200)

101
五言律詩
李白
渡荊門送別
渡遠荊門外， 來從楚國遊。 山隨平野盡， 江入大荒流。 月下飛天鏡， 雲生結海樓。 仍憐故鄉水， 萬里送行舟。

Five-character-regular-verse
Li Bai
BIDDING A FRIEND FAREWELL AT JINGMEN FERRY
Sailing far off from Jingmen Ferry, Soon you will be with people in the south, Where the mountains end and the plains begin And the river winds through wilderness.... The moon is lifted like a mirror, Sea-clouds gleam like palaces, And the water has brought you a touch of home To draw your boat three hundred miles.

102
五言律詩
李白
送友人
青山橫北郭， 白水遶東城。 此地一為別， 孤蓬萬里征。 浮雲游子意， 落日故人情。 揮手自茲去， 蕭蕭班馬鳴。

Five-character-regular-verse
Li Bai
A FAREWELL TO A FRIEND
With a blue line of mountains north of the wall, And east of the city a white curve of water, Here you must leave me and drift away Like a loosened water-plant hundreds of miles.... I shall think of you in a floating cloud; So in the sunset think of me. ...We wave our hands to say good-bye, And my horse is neighing again and again.

103
五言律詩
李白
聽蜀僧濬彈琴
蜀僧抱綠綺， 西下峨眉峰； 為我一揮手， 如聽萬壑松。 客心洗流水， 餘響入霜鐘。 不覺碧山暮， 秋雲暗幾重？

Five-character-regular-verse
Li Bai
ON HEARING JUN THE BUDDHIST MONK FROM SHU PLAY HIS LUTE
The monk from Shu with his green silk lute-case, Walking west down Omei Mountain, Has brought me by one touch of the strings The breath of pines in a thousand valleys. I hear him in the cleansing brook, I hear him in the icy bells; And I feel no change though the mountain darken And cloudy autumn heaps the sky.

104
五言律詩
李白
夜泊牛渚懷古
牛渚西江夜， 青天無片雲； 登舟望秋月， 空憶謝將軍。 余亦能高詠， 斯人不可聞。 明朝挂帆席， 楓葉落紛紛。

Five-character-regular-verse
Li Bai
THOUGHTS OF OLD TIME FROM A NIGHT-MOORING UNDER MOUNT NIU-ZHU
This night to the west of the river-brim There is not one cloud in the whole blue sky, As I watch from my deck the autumn moon, Vainly remembering old General Xie.... I have poems; I can read; He heard others, but not mine. ...Tomorrow I shall hoist my sail, With fallen maple-leaves behind me.

105
五言律詩
杜甫
月夜
今夜鄜州月， 閨中只獨看。 遙憐小兒女， 未解憶長安。 香霧雲鬟濕， 清輝玉臂寒。 何時倚虛幌， 雙照淚痕乾。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT
Far off in Fuzhou she is watching the moonlight, Watching it alone from the window of her chamber- For our boy and girl, poor little babes, Are too young to know where the Capital is. Her cloudy hair is sweet with mist, Her jade-white shoulder is cold in the moon. ...When shall we lie again, with no more tears, Watching this bright light on our screen?

106
五言律詩
杜甫
春望
國破山河在， 城春草木深。 感時花濺淚， 恨別鳥驚心。 烽火連三月， 家書抵萬金。 白頭搔更短， 渾欲不勝簪。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
A SPRING VIEW
Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

107
五言律詩
杜甫
春宿左省
花隱掖垣暮， 啾啾棲鳥過。 星臨萬戶動， 月傍九霄多。 不寢聽金鑰， 因風想玉珂。 明朝有封事， 數問夜如何。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
A NIGHT-VIGIL IN THE LEFT COURT OF THE PALACE
Flowers are shadowed, the palace darkens, Birds twitter by for a place to perch; Heaven's ten thousand windows are twinkling, And nine cloud-terraces are gleaming in the moonlight. ...While I wait for the golden lock to turn, I hear jade pendants tinkling in the wind.... I have a petition to present in the morning, All night I ask what time it is.

108
五言律詩
杜甫
至德二載甫自京金光門出，問道歸鳳翔。乾元初從左拾遺移華州掾。與親故別，因出此門。有悲往事。
此道昔歸順， 西郊胡正繁。 至今殘破膽， 應有未招魂。 近得歸京邑， 移官豈至尊。 無才日衰老， 駐馬望千門。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
TAKING LEAVE OF FRIENDS ON MY WAY TO HUAZHOU
In the second year of Zhide, I escaped from the capital through the Gate of Golden Light and went to Fengxiang. In the first year of Qianyuan, I was appointed as official to Huazhou from my former post of Censor. Friends and relatives gathered and saw me leave by the same gate. And I wrote this poem.
This is the road by which I fled, When the rebels had reached the west end of the city; And terror, ever since, has clutched at my vitals Lest some of my soul should never return. ...The court has come back now, filling the capital; But the Emperor sends me away again. Useless and old, I rein in my horse For one last look at the thousand gates.

109
五言律詩
杜甫
月夜憶舍弟
戍鼓斷人行， 秋邊一雁聲。 露從今夜白， 月是故鄉明。 有弟皆分散， 無家問死生。 寄書長不達， 況乃未休兵。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
REMEMBERING MY BROTHERS ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT
A wanderer hears drums portending battle. By the first call of autumn from a wildgoose at the border, He knows that the dews tonight will be frost. ...How much brighter the moonlight is at home! O my brothers, lost and scattered, What is life to me without you? Yet if missives in time of peace go wrong -- What can I hope for during war?

110
五言律詩
杜甫
天末懷李白
涼風起天末， 君子意如何。 鴻雁幾時到， 江湖秋水多。 文章憎命達， 魑魅喜人過。 應共冤魂語， 投詩贈汨羅。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
TO LI BAI AT THE SKY SEND
A cold wind blows from the far sky.... What are you thinking of, old friend? The wildgeese never answer me. Rivers and lakes are flooded with rain. ...A poet should beware of prosperity, Yet demons can haunt a wanderer. Ask an unhappy ghost, throw poems to him Where he drowned himself in the Milo River.

111
五言律詩
杜甫
奉濟驛重送嚴公四韻
遠送從此別， 青山空復情。 幾時杯重把， 昨夜月同行。 列郡謳歌惜， 三朝出入榮。 將村獨歸處， 寂寞養殘生。

Five-character-regular-verse
Du Fu
A FAREWELL AT FENGJI STATION TO GENERAL YAN
This is where your comrade must leave you, Turning at the foot of these purple mountains.... When shall we lift our cups again, I wonder, As we did last night and walk in the moon? The region is murmuring farewell To one who was honoured through three reigns; And back I go now to my river-village, Into the final solitude.

112
五言律詩
杜甫
別房太尉墓
他鄉復行役， 駐馬別孤墳。 近淚無乾土， 低空有斷雲。 對棋陪謝傅， 把劍覓徐君。 唯見林花落， 鶯啼送客聞。

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Du Fu
ON LEAVING THE TOMB OF PREMIER FANG
Having to travel back now from this far place, I dismount beside your lonely tomb. The ground where I stand is wet with my tears; The sky is dark with broken clouds.... I who played chess with the great Premier Am bringing to my lord the dagger he desired. But I find only petals falling down, I hear only linnets answering.

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杜甫
旅夜書懷
細草微風岸， 危檣獨夜舟。 星垂平野闊， 月湧大江流。 名豈文章著， 官應老病休。 飄飄何所似， 天地一沙鷗。

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Du Fu
A NIGHT ABROAD
A light wind is rippling at the grassy shore.... Through the night, to my motionless tall mast, The stars lean down from open space, And the moon comes running up the river. ...If only my art might bring me fame And free my sick old age from office! -- Flitting, flitting, what am I like But a sand-snipe in the wide, wide world!

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杜甫
登岳陽樓
昔聞洞庭水， 今上岳陽樓。 吳楚東南坼， 乾坤日夜浮。 親朋無一字， 老病有孤舟。 戎馬關山北， 憑軒涕泗流。

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Du Fu
ON THE GATE-TOWER AT YOUZHOU
I had always heard of Lake Dongting -- And now at last I have climbed to this tower. With Wu country to the east of me and Chu to the south, I can see heaven and earth endlessly floating. ...But no word has reached me from kin or friends. I am old and sick and alone with my boat. North of this wall there are wars and mountains -- And here by the rail how can I help crying?

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王維
輞川閑居贈裴秀才迪
寒山轉蒼翠， 秋水日潺湲。 倚杖柴門外， 臨風聽暮蟬。 渡頭餘落日， 墟里上孤煙。 復值接輿醉， 狂歌五柳前。

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Wang Wei
A MESSAGE FROM MY LODGE AT WANGCHUAN TO PEI DI
The mountains are cold and blue now And the autumn waters have run all day. By my thatch door, leaning on my staff, I listen to cicadas in the evening wind. Sunset lingers at the ferry, Supper-smoke floats up from the houses. ...Oh, when shall I pledge the great Hermit again And sing a wild poem at Five Willows?

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王維
山居秋暝
空山新雨後， 天氣晚來秋。 明月松間照， 清泉石上流。 竹喧歸浣女， 蓮動下漁舟。 隨意春芳歇， 王孫自可留。

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Wang Wei
AN AUTUMN EVENING IN THE MOUNTAINS
After rain the empty mountain Stands autumnal in the evening, Moonlight in its groves of pine, Stones of crystal in its brooks. Bamboos whisper of washer-girls bound home, Lotus-leaves yield before a fisher-boat -- And what does it matter that springtime has gone, While you are here, O Prince of Friends?

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王維
歸嵩山作
清川帶長薄， 車馬去閑閑。 流水如有意， 暮禽相與還。 荒城臨古渡， 落日滿秋山。 迢遞嵩高下， 歸來且閉關。

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Wang Wei
BOUND HOME TO MOUNT SONG
The limpid river, past its bushes Running slowly as my chariot, Becomes a fellow voyager Returning home with the evening birds. A ruined city-wall overtops an old ferry, Autumn sunset floods the peaks. ...Far away, beside Mount Song, I shall close my door and be at peace.

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王維
終南山
太乙近天都， 連山接海隅。 白雲迴望合， 青靄入看無。 分野中峰變， 陰晴眾壑殊。 欲投人處宿， 隔水問樵夫。

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Wang Wei
MOUNT ZHONGNAN
Its massive height near the City of Heaven Joins a thousand mountains to the corner of the sea. Clouds, when I look back, close behind me, Mists, when I enter them, are gone. A central peak divides the wilds And weather into many valleys. ...Needing a place to spend the night, I call to a wood-cutter over the river.

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王維
酬張少府
晚年惟好靜， 萬事不關心。 自顧無長策， 空知返舊林。 松風吹解帶， 山月照彈琴。 君問窮通理， 漁歌入浦深。

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Wang Wei
ANSWERING VICE-PREFECT ZHANG
As the years go by, give me but peace, Freedom from ten thousand matters. I ask myself and always answer: What can be better than coming home? A wind from the pine-trees blows my sash, And my lute is bright with the mountain moon. You ask me about good and evil fortune?.... Hark, on the lake there's a fisherman singing!

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王維
過香積寺
不知香積寺， 數里入雲峰。 古木無人徑， 深山何處鐘。 泉聲咽危石， 日色冷青松。 薄暮空潭曲， 安禪制毒龍。

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Wang Wei
TOWARD THE TEMPLE OF HEAPED FRAGRANCE
Not knowing the way to the Temple of Heaped Fragrance, Under miles of mountain-cloud I have wandered Through ancient woods without a human track; But now on the height I hear a bell. A rillet sings over winding rocks, The sun is tempered by green pines.... And at twilight, close to an emptying pool, Thought can conquer the Passion-Dragon.

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王維
送梓州李使君
萬壑樹參天， 千山響杜鵑。 山中一夜雨， 樹杪百重泉。 漢女輸橦布， 巴人訟芋田。 文翁翻教授， 不敢倚先賢。

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Wang Wei
A MESSAGE TO COMMISSIONER LI AT ZIZHOU
From ten thousand valleys the trees touch heaven; On a thousand peaks cuckoos are calling; And, after a night of mountain rain, From each summit come hundreds of silken cascades. ...If girls are asked in tribute the fibre they weave, Or farmers quarrel over taro fields, Preside as wisely as Wenweng did.... Is fame to be only for the ancients?

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王維
漢江臨眺
楚塞三湘接， 荊門九派通。 江流天地外， 山色有無中。 郡邑浮前浦， 波瀾動遠空。 襄陽好風日， 留醉與山翁。

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Wang Wei
A VIEW OF THE HAN RIVER
With its three southern branches reaching the Chu border, And its nine streams touching the gateway of Jing, This river runs beyond heaven and earth, Where the colour of mountains both is and is not. The dwellings of men seem floating along On ripples of the distant sky -- These beautiful days here in Xiangyang Make drunken my old mountain heart!

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王維
終南別業
中歲頗好道， 晚家南山陲。 興來美獨往， 勝事空自知。 行到水窮處， 坐看雲起時。 偶然值林叟， 談笑無還期。

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Wang Wei
MY RETREAT AT MOUNT ZHONGNAN
My heart in middle age found the Way. And I came to dwell at the foot of this mountain. When the spirit moves, I wander alone Amid beauty that is all for me.... I will walk till the water checks my path, Then sit and watch the rising clouds -- And some day meet an old wood-cutter And talk and laugh and never return.

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孟浩然
望洞庭湖贈張丞相
八月湖水平， 涵虛混太清。 氣蒸雲夢澤， 波撼岳陽城。 欲濟無舟楫， 端居恥聖明。 坐觀垂釣者， 空有羨魚情。

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Meng Haoran
A MESSAGE FROM LAKE DONGTIN TO PREMIER ZHANG
Here in the Eighth-month the waters of the lake Are of a single air with heaven, And a mist from the Yun and Meng valleys Has beleaguered the city of Youzhou. I should like to cross, but I can find no boat. ...How ashamed I am to be idler than you statesmen, As I sit here and watch a fisherman casting And emptily envy him his catch.

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孟浩然
與諸子登峴山
人事有代謝， 往來成古今。 江山留勝跡， 我輩復登臨。 水落魚梁淺， 天寒夢澤深。 羊公碑字在， 讀罷淚沾襟。

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Meng Haoran
ON CLIMBING YAN MOUNTAIN WITH FRIENDS
While worldly matters take their turn, Ancient, modern, to and fro, Rivers and mountains are changeless in their glory And still to be witnessed from this trail. Where a fisher-boat dips by a waterfall, Where the air grows colder, deep in the valley, The monument of Yang remains; And we have wept, reading the words.

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孟浩然
清明日宴梅道士房
林臥愁春盡， 開軒覽物華。 忽逢青鳥使， 邀入赤松家。 丹灶初開火， 仙桃正發花。 童顏若可駐， 何惜醉流霞。

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Meng Haoran
AT A BANQUET IN THE HOUSE OF THE TAOIST PRIEST MEI
In my bed among the woods, grieving that spring must end, I lifted up the curtain on a pathway of flowers, And a flashing bluebird bade me come To the dwelling-place of the Red Pine Genie. ...What a flame for his golden crucible -- Peach-trees magical with buds ! -- And for holding boyhood in his face, The rosy-flowing wine of clouds!

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孟浩然
歲暮歸南山
北闕休上書， 南山歸敝廬。 不才明主棄， 多病故人疏。 白髮催年老， 青陽逼歲除。 永懷愁不寐， 松月夜窗墟。

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Meng Haoran
ON RETURNING AT THE YEAR'S END TO ZHONGNAN MOUNTAIN
I petition no more at the north palace-gate. ...To this tumble-down hut on Zhongnan Mountain I was banished for my blunders, by a wise ruler. I have been sick so long I see none of my friends. My white hairs hasten my decline, Like pale beams ending the old year. Therefore I lie awake and ponder On the pine-shadowed moonlight in my empty window.

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孟浩然
過故人莊
故人具雞黍， 邀我至田家。 綠樹村邊合， 青山郭外斜。 開軒面場圃， 把酒話桑麻。 待到重陽日， 還來就菊花。

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Meng Haoran
STOPPING AT A FRIEND'S FARM-HOUSE
Preparing me chicken and rice, old friend, You entertain me at your farm. We watch the green trees that circle your village And the pale blue of outlying mountains. We open your window over garden and field, To talk mulberry and hemp with our cups in our hands. ...Wait till the Mountain Holiday -- I am coming again in chrysanthemum time.

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孟浩然
秦中感秋寄遠上人
一丘嘗欲臥， 三徑苦無資。 北土非吾願， 東林懷我師。 黃金燃桂盡， 壯志逐年衰。 日夕涼風至， 聞蟬但益悲。

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Meng Haoran
FROM QIN COUNTRY TO THE BUDDHIST PRIEST YUAN
How gladly I would seek a mountain If I had enough means to live as a recluse! For I turn at last from serving the State To the Eastern Woods Temple and to you, my master. ...Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame, My youthful desires have been burnt with the years- And tonight in the chilling sunset-wind A cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.

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孟浩然
宿桐廬江寄廣陵舊遊
山暝聽猿愁， 滄江急夜流。 風鳴兩岸葉， 月照一孤舟。 建德非吾土， 維揚憶舊遊。 還將兩行淚， 遙寄海西頭。

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Meng Haoran
FROM A MOORING ON THE TONGLU TO A FRIEND IN YANGZHOU
With monkeys whimpering on the shadowy mountain, And the river rushing through the night, And a wind in the leaves along both banks, And the moon athwart my solitary sail, I, a stranger in this inland district, Homesick for my Yangzhou friends, Send eastward two long streams of tears To find the nearest touch of the sea.

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孟浩然
留別王侍御維
寂寂竟何待， 朝朝空自歸。 欲尋芳草去， 惜與故人違。 當路誰相假， 知音世所稀。 祗應守寂寞， 還掩故園扉。

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Meng Haoran
TAKING LEAVE OF WANG WEI
Slow and reluctant, I have waited Day after day, till now I must go. How sweet the road-side flowers might be If they did not mean good-bye, old friend. The Lords of the Realm are harsh to us And men of affairs are not our kind. I will turn back home, I will say no more, I will close the gate of my old garden.

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孟浩然
早寒江上有懷
木落雁南渡， 北風江上寒。 我家襄水曲， 遙隔楚雲端。 鄉淚客中盡， 孤帆天際看。 迷津欲有問， 平海夕漫漫。

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Meng Haoran
MEMORIES IN EARLY WINTER
South go the wildgesse, for leaves are now falling, And the water is cold with a wind from the north. I remember my home; but the Xiang River's curves Are walled by the clouds of this southern country. I go forward. I weep till my tears are spent. I see a sail in the far sky. Where is the ferry? Will somebody tell me? It's growing rough. It's growing dark.

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劉長卿
秋日登吳公臺上寺遠眺
古臺搖落後， 秋日望鄉心。 野寺人來少， 雲峰水隔深。 夕陽依舊壘， 寒磬滿空林。 惆悵南朝事， 長江獨至今。

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Liu Changqing
CLIMBING IN AUTUMN FOR A VIEW FROM THE TEMPLE ON THE TERRACE OF GENERAL WU
So autumn breaks my homesick heart.... Few pilgrims venture climbing to a temple so wild, Up from the lake, in the mountain clouds. ...Sunset clings in the old defences, A stone gong shivers through the empty woods. ...Of the Southern Dynasty, what remains? Nothing but the great River.

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劉長卿
送李中丞歸漢陽別業
流落征南將， 曾驅十萬師。 罷歸無舊業， 老去戀明時。 獨立三邊靜， 輕生一劍知。 茫茫江漢上， 日暮復何之。

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Liu Chanqing
A FAREWELL TO GOVERNOR LI ON HIS WAY HOME TO HANYANG
Sad wanderer, once you conquered the South, Commanding a hundred thousand men; Today, dismissed and dispossessed, In your old age you remember glory. Once, when you stood, three borders were still; Your dagger was the scale of life. Now, watching the great rivers, the Jiang and the Han, On their ways in the evening, where do you go?

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劉長卿
餞別王十一南遊
望君煙水闊， 揮手淚霑巾。 飛鳥沒何處？ 青山空向人。 長江一帆遠， 落日五湖春。 誰見汀洲上， 相思愁白蘋？

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Liu Changing
ON SEEING WANG LEAVE FOR THE SOUTH
Toward a mist upon the water Still I wave my hand and sob, For the flying bird is lost in space Beyond a desolate green mountain.... But now the long river, the far lone sail, five lakes, gleam like spring in the sunset; And down an island white with duckweed Comes the quiet of communion.

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劉長卿
尋南溪常山道人隱居
一路經行處， 莓苔見履痕。 白雲依靜渚， 春草閉閑門。 過雨看松色， 隨山到水源。 溪花與禪意， 相對亦忘言。

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Liu Changing
WHILE VISITING ON THE SOUTH STREAM THE TAOIST PRIEST CHANG
Walking along a little path, I find a footprint on the moss, A while cloud low on the quiet lake, Grasses that sweeten an idle door, A pine grown greener with the rain, A brook that comes from a mountain source -- And, mingling with Truth among the flowers, I have forgotten what to say.

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劉長卿
新年作
鄉心新歲切， 天畔獨潸然。 老至居人下， 春歸在客先。 嶺猿同旦暮， 江柳共風煙。 已似長沙傅， 從今又幾年。

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Liu Changqing
NEW YEAR'S AT CHANGSHA
New Year's only deepens my longing, Adds to the lonely tears of an exile Who, growing old and still in harness, Is left here by the homing spring.... Monkeys come down from the mountains to haunt me. I bend like a willow, when it rains on the river. I think of Jia Yi, who taught here and died here-And I wonder what my term shall be.

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錢起
送僧歸日本
上國隨緣住， 來途若夢行。 浮天滄海遠， 去世法舟輕。 水月通禪寂， 魚龍聽梵聲。 惟憐一燈影， 萬里眼中明。

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Qian Qi
FAREWELL TO A JAPANESE BUDDHIST PRIEST BOUND HOMEWARD
You were foreordained to find the source. Now, tracing your way as in a dream There where the sea floats up the sky, You wane from the world in your fragile boat.... The water and the moon are as calm as your faith, Fishes and dragons follow your chanting, And the eye still watches beyond the horizon The holy light of your single lantern.

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錢起
谷口書齋寄楊補闕
泉壑帶茅茨， 雲霞生薜帷。 竹憐新雨後， 山愛夕陽時。 閒鷺棲常早， 秋花落更遲。 家童掃蘿徑， 昨與故人期。

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Qian Qi
FROM MY STUDY AT THE MOUTH OF THE VALLEY. A MESSAGE TO CENSOR YANG
At a little grass-hut in the valley of the river, Where a cloud seems born from a viney wall, You will love the bamboos new with rain, And mountains tender in the sunset. Cranes drift early here to rest And autumn flowers are slow to fade.... I have bidden my pupil to sweep the grassy path For the coming of my friend.

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韋應物
淮上喜會梁川故人
江漢曾為客， 相逢每醉還。 浮雲一別後， 流水十年間。 歡笑情如舊， 蕭疏鬢已斑。 何因北歸去？ 淮上對秋山。

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Wei Yingwu
A GREETING ON THE HUAI RIVER TO MY OLD FRIENDS FROM LIANGCHUAN
We used to be companions on the Jiang and the Han, And as often as we met, we were likely to be tipsy. Since we left one another, floating apart like clouds, Ten years have run like water-till at last we join again. And we talk again and laugh again just as in earlier days, Except that the hair on our heads is tinged now with grey. Why not come along, then, all of us together, And face the autumn mountains and sail along the Huai?

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韋應物
賦得暮雨送李冑
楚江微雨裡， 建業暮鐘時。 漠漠帆來重， 冥冥鳥去遲。 海門深不見， 浦樹遠含滋。 相送情無限， 沾襟比散絲。

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Wei Yingwu
A FAREWELL IN THE EVENING RAIN TO LI CAO
Is it raining on the river all the way to Chu? -- - The evening bell comes to us from Nanjing. Your wet sail drags and is loath to be going And shadowy birds are flying slow. We cannot see the deep ocean-gate -- Only the boughs at Pukou, newly dripping. Likewise, because of our great love, There are threads of water on our faces.

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韓翃
酬程延秋夜即事見贈
長簟迎風早， 空城澹月華。 星河秋一雁， 砧杵夜千家。 節候看應晚， 心期臥亦賒。 向來吟秀句， 不覺已鳴鴉。

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Han Hong
AN AUTUMN EVENING HARMONIZING CHENG QIN'S POEM
While a cold wind is creeping under my mat, And the city's naked wall grows pale with the autumn moon, I see a lone wild-goose crossing the River of Stars, And I hear, on stone in the night, thousands of washing mallets.... But, instead of wishing the season, as it goes, To bear me also far away, I have found your poem so beautiful That I forget the homing birds.

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劉脊虛
闕題
道由白雲盡， 春與青溪長。 時有落花至， 遠隋流水香。 閑門向山路， 深柳讀書堂。 幽映每白日， 清輝照衣裳。
又作閒

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Liu Jixu
A POEM
On a road outreaching the white clouds, By a spring outrunning the bluest river, Petals come drifting on the wind And the brook is sweet with them all the way. My quiet gate is a mountain-trail, And the willow-trees about my cottage Sift on my sleeve, through the shadowy noon, Distillations of the sun.

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戴叔倫
江鄉故人偶集客舍
天秋月又滿， 城闕夜千重。 還作江南會， 翻疑夢裡逢。 風枝驚暗鵲， 露草覆寒蟲。 羈旅長堪醉， 相留畏曉鐘。

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Dai Shulun
CHANGING ON OLD FRIENDS IN A VILLAGE INN
While the autumn moon is pouring full On a thousand night-levels among towns and villages, There meet by chance, south of the river, Dreaming doubters of a dream.... In the trees a wind has startled the birds, And insects cower from cold in the grass; But wayfarers at least have wine And nothing to fear -- till the morning bell.

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盧綸
李端公
故關衰草遍， 離別正堪悲。 路出寒雲外， 人歸暮雪時。 少孤為客早， 多難識君遲。 掩淚空相向， 風塵何處期。

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Lu Lun
A FAREWELL TO LI DUAN
By my old gate, among yellow grasses, Still we linger, sick at heart. The way you must follow through cold clouds Will lead you this evening into snow. Your father died; you left home young; Nobody knew of your misfortunes. We cry, we say nothing. What can I wish you, In this blowing wintry world?

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李益
喜見外弟又言別
十年離亂後， 長大一相逢。 問姓驚初見， 稱名憶舊容。 別來滄海事， 語罷暮天鐘。 明日巴陵道， 秋山又幾重。

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Li Yi
A BRIEF BUT HAPPY MEETING WITH MY BROTHER-IN LAW "MEETING BY ACCIDENT, ONLY TO PART"
After these ten torn wearisome years We have met again. We were both so changed That hearing first your surname, I thought you a stranger -- Then hearing your given name, I remembered your young face.... All that has happened with the tides We have told and told till the evening bell.... Tomorrow you journey to Youzhou, Leaving autumn between us, peak after peak.

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司空曙
雲陽館與韓紳宿別
故人江海別， 幾度隔山川。 乍見翻疑夢， 相悲各問年。 孤燈寒照雨， 深竹暗浮煙。 更有明朝恨， 離杯惜共傳。

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Sikong Shu
A FAREWELL TO HAN SHEN AT THE YUNYANG INN
Long divided by river and sea, For years we two have failed to meet -- And suddenly to find you seems like a dream.... With a catch in the throat, we ask how old we are. ...Our single lamp shines, through cold and wet, On a bamboo- thicket sheathed in rain; But forgetting the sadness that will come with tomorrow, Let us share the comfort of this farewell wine.

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司空曙
喜外弟盧綸見宿
靜夜四無鄰， 荒居舊業貧。 雨中黃葉樹， 燈下白頭人。 以我獨沉久， 愧君相訪頻。 平生自有分， 況是蔡家親。

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Sikong Shu
WHEN LU LUN MY COUSIN COMES FOR THE NIGHT
With no other neighbour but the quiet night, Here I live in the same old cottage; And as raindrops brighten yellow leaves, The lamp illumines my white head.... Out of the world these many years, I am ashamed to receive you here. But you cannot come too often, More than brother, lifelong friend.

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司空曙
賊平後送人北歸
世亂同南去， 時清獨北還。 他鄉生白髮， 舊國見青山。 曉月過殘壘， 繁星宿故關。 寒禽與衰草， 處處伴愁顏。

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Sikiong Shu
TO A FRIEND BOUND NORTH AFTER THE REBELLION
In dangerous times we two came south; Now you go north in safety, without me. But remember my head growing white among strangers, When you look on the blue of the mountains of home. ...The moon goes down behind a ruined fort, Leaving star-clusters above an old gate.... There are shivering birds and withering grasses, Whichever way I turn my face.

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劉禹錫
蜀先主廟
天地英雄氣， 千秋尚凜然。 勢分三足鼎， 業復五銖錢。 得相能開國， 生兒不象賢。 淒涼蜀故妓， 來舞魏宮前。

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Liu Yuxi
IN THE TEMPLE OF THE FIRST KING OF SHU
Even in this world the spirit of a hero Lives and reigns for thousands of years. You were the firmest of the pot's three legs; It was you who maintained the honour of the currency; You chose a great premier to magnify your kingdom.... And yet you had a son so little like his father That girls of your country were taken captive To dance in the palace of the King of Wei.

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張籍
沒蕃故人
前年伐月支， 城下沒全師。 蕃漢斷消息， 死生長別離。 無人收廢帳， 歸馬識殘旗。 欲祭疑君在， 天涯哭此時。
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Zhang Ji
THINKING OF A FRIEND LOST IN THE TIBETAN WAR
Last year you went with your troops to Tibet; And when your men had vanished beyond the citywall, News was cut off between the two worlds As between the living and the dead. No one has come upon a faithful horse guarding A crumpled tent or torn flag, or any trace of you. If only I knew, I might serve you in the temple, Instead of these tears toward the far sky.

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白居易
賦得古原草送別
離離原上草， 一歲一枯榮。 野火燒不盡， 春風吹又生。 遠芳侵古道， 晴翠接荒城。 又送王孫去， 萋萋滿別情。

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Bai Juyi
GRASSES
Boundless grasses over the plain Come and go with every season; Wildfire never quite consumes them -- They are tall once more in the spring wind. Sweet they press on the old high- road And reach the crumbling city-gate.... O Prince of Friends, you are gone again.... I hear them sighing after you.

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杜牧
旅宿
旅館無良伴， 凝情自悄然。 寒燈思舊事， 斷雁警愁眠。 遠夢歸侵曉， 家書到隔年。 滄江好煙月， 門繫釣魚船。

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Du Mu
A NIGHT AT A TAVERN
Solitary at the tavern, I am shut in with loneliness and grief. Under the cold lamp, I brood on the past; I am kept awake by a lost wildgoose. ...Roused at dawn from a misty dream, I read, a year late, news from home -- And I remember the moon like smoke on the river And a fisher-boat moored there, under my door.

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許渾
秋日赴闕題潼關驛樓
紅葉晚蕭蕭， 長亭酒一瓢。 殘雲歸太華， 疏雨過中條。 樹色隨山迥， 河聲入海遙。 帝鄉明日到， 猶自夢漁樵。

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Xu Hun
INSCRIBED IN THE INN AT TONG GATE ON AN AUTUMN TRIP TO THE CAPITAL
Red leaves are fluttering down the twilight Past this arbour where I take my wine; Cloud-rifts are blowing toward Great Flower Mountain, And a shower is crossing the Middle Ridge. I can see trees colouring a distant wall. I can hear the river seeking the sea, As I the Imperial City tomorrow -- But I dream of woodsmen and fishermen.

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許渾
早秋
遙夜汎清瑟， 西風生翠蘿。 殘螢栖玉露， 早雁拂銀河。 高樹曉還密， 遠山晴更多。 淮南一葉下， 自覺老煙波。

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Xu Hun
EARLY AUTUMN
There's a harp in the midnight playing clear, While the west wind rustles a green vine; There's a low cloud touching the jade-white dew And an early wildgoose in the River of Stars.... Night in the tall trees clings to dawn; Light makes folds in the distant hills; And here on the Huai, by one falling leaf, I can feel a storm on Lake Dongting.

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李商隱
蟬
本以高難飽， 徒勞恨費聲。 五更疏欲斷， 一樹碧無情。 薄宦梗猶汎， 故園蕪已平。 煩君最相警， 我亦舉家清。

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Li Shangyin
A CICADA
Pure of heart and therefore hungry, All night long you have sung in vain -- Oh, this final broken indrawn breath Among the green indifferent trees! Yes, I have gone like a piece of driftwood, I have let my garden fill with weeds.... I bless you for your true advice To live as pure a life as yours.

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李商隱
風雨
淒涼寶劍篇， 羈泊欲窮年。 黃葉仍風雨， 青樓自管絃。 新知遭薄俗， 舊好隔良緣。 心斷新豐酒， 銷愁斗幾千。

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Li Shangyin
WIND AND RAIN
I ponder on the poem of The Precious Dagger. My road has wound through many years. ...Now yellow leaves are shaken with a gale; Yet piping and fiddling keep the Blue Houses merry. On the surface, I seem to be glad of new people; But doomed to leave old friends behind me, I cry out from my heart for Xinfeng wine To melt away my thousand woes.

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李商隱
落花
高閣客竟去， 小園花亂飛。 參差連曲陌， 迢遞送斜暉。 腸斷未忍掃， 眼穿仍欲歸。 芳心向春盡， 所得是沾衣。

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Li Shangyin
FALLING PETALS
Gone is the guest from the Chamber of Rank, And petals, confused in my little garden, Zigzagging down my crooked path, Escort like dancers the setting sun. Oh, how can I bear to sweep them away? To a sad-eyed watcher they never return. Heart's fragrance is spent with the ending of spring And nothing left but a tear-stained robe.

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李商隱
涼思
客去波平檻， 蟬休露滿枝。 永懷當此節， 倚立自移時。 北斗兼春遠， 南陵寓使遲。 天涯占夢數， 疑誤有新知。

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Li Shangyin
THOUGHTS IN THE COLD
You are gone. The river is high at my door. Cicadas are mute on dew-laden boughs. This is a moment when thoughts enter deep. I stand alone for a long while. ...The North Star is nearer to me now than spring, And couriers from your southland never arrive -- Yet I doubt my dream on the far horizon That you have found another friend.

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李商隱
北青蘿
殘陽西入崦， 茅屋訪孤僧。 落葉人何在？ 寒雲路幾層。 獨敲初夜磬， 閑倚一枝藤。 世界微塵裡， 吾寧愛與憎。

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Li Shangyin
NORTH AMONG GREEN VINES
Where the sun has entered the western hills, I look for a monk in his little straw hut; But only the fallen leaves are at home, And I turn through chilling levels of cloud I hear a stone gong in the dusk, I lean full-weight on my slender staff How within this world, within this grain of dust, Can there be any room for the passions of men?

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溫庭筠
送人東遊
荒戍落黃葉， 浩然離故關。 高風漢陽渡， 初日郢門山。 江上幾人在？ 天涯孤棹還。 何當重相見？ 樽酒慰離顏。

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Wen Tingyun
TO A FRIEND BOUND EAST
The old fort brims with yellow leaves.... You insist upon forsaking this place where you have lived. A high wind blows at Hanyang Ferry And sunrise lights the summit of Yingmen.... Who will be left for me along the upper Yangzi After your solitary skiff has entered the end of the sky? I ask you over and over when we shall meet again, While we soften with winecups this ache of farewell.

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馬戴
灞上秋居
灞原風雨定， 晚見雁行頻。 落葉他鄉樹， 寒燈獨夜人。 空園白露滴， 孤壁野僧鄰。 寄臥郊扉久， 何年致此身？

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Ma Dai
AN AUTUMN COTTAGE AT BASHANG
After the shower at Bashang, I see an evening line of wildgeese, The limp-hanging leaves of a foreign tree, A lantern's cold gleam, lonely in the night, An empty garden, white with dew, The ruined wall of a neighbouring monastery. ...I have taken my ease here long enough. What am I waiting for, I wonder.

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馬戴
楚江懷古
露氣寒光集， 微陽下楚丘。 猿啼洞庭樹， 人在木蘭舟。 廣澤生明月， 蒼山夾亂流。 雲中君不見， 竟夕自悲秋。

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Ma Dai
THOUGHTS OF OLD TIME ON THE CHU RIVER
A cold light shines on the gathering dew, As sunset fades beyond the southern mountains; Trees echo with monkeys on the banks of Lake Dongting, Where somebody is moving in an orchid-wood boat. Marsh-lands are swollen wide with the moon, While torrents are bent to the mountains' will; And the vanished Queens of the Clouds leave me Sad with autumn all night long.

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張喬
書邊事
調角斷清秋， 征人倚戍樓。 春風對青塚， 白日落梁州。 大漠無兵阻， 窮邊有客遊。 蕃情似此水， 長願向南流。

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Zhang Qiao
ON THE BORDER
Though a bugle breaks the crystal air of autumn, Soldiers, in the look-out, watch at ease today The spring wind blowing across green graves And the pale sun setting beyond Liangzhou. For now, on grey plains done with war, The border is open to travel again; And Tartars can no more choose than rivers: They are running, all of them, toward the south.

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五言律詩
崔塗
巴山道中除夜有懷
迢遞三巴路， 羈危萬里身。 亂山殘雪夜， 孤獨異鄉春。 漸與骨肉遠， 轉於僮僕親。 那堪正飄泊， 明日歲華新。
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Cui Tu
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
Farther and farther from the three Ba Roads, I have come three thousand miles, anxious and watchful, Through pale snow-patches in the jagged nightmountains -- A stranger with a lonely lantern shaken in the wind. ...Separation from my kin Binds me closer to my servants -- Yet how I dread, so far adrift, New Year's Day, tomorrow morning!

166
五言律詩
崔塗
孤雁
幾行歸塞盡， 片影獨何之？ 暮雨相呼失， 寒塘欲下遲。 渚雲低暗渡， 關月冷相隨。 未必逢矰繳， 孤飛自可疑。

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Cui Tu
A SOLITARY WILDGOOSE
Line after line has flown back over the border. Where are you headed all by yourself? In the evening rain you call to them -- And slowly you alight on an icy pond. The low wet clouds move faster than you Along the wall toward the cold moon. ...If they caught you in a net or with a shot, Would it be worse than flying alone?

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五言律詩
杜荀鶴
春宮怨
早被嬋娟誤， 欲妝臨鏡慵。 承恩不在貌， 教妾若為容？ 風暖鳥聲碎， 日高花影重。 年年越溪女， 相憶採芙蓉。

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Du Xunhe
A SIGH IN THE SPRING PALACE
Knowing beauty my misfortune, I face my mirror with a sigh. To please a fastidious emperor, How shall I array myself?.... Birds flock and sing when the wind is warm, Flower-shadows climb when the sun is high -- And year after year girls in the south Are picking hibiscus, dreaming of love!

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韋莊
章臺夜思
清瑟怨遙夜， 繞絃風雨哀。 孤燈聞楚角， 殘月下章臺。 芳草已云暮， 故人殊未來。 鄉書不可寄， 秋雁又南迴。

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Wei Zhuang
A NIGHT THOUGHT ON TERRACE TOWER
Far through the night a harp is sighing With a sadness of wind and rain in the strings.... There's a solitary lantern, a bugle-call -- And beyond Terrace Tower down goes the moon. ...Fragrant grasses have changed and faded While still I have been hoping that my old friend would come.... There are no more messengers I can send him, Now that the wildgeese have turned south.

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僧皎然
尋陸鴻漸不遇
移家雖帶郭， 野徑入桑麻。 近種籬邊菊， 秋來未著花。 扣門無犬吠， 欲去問西家。 報到山中去， 歸來每日斜。

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Seng Jiaoran
NOT FINDING LU HONGXIAN AT HOME
To find you, moved beyond the city, A wide path led me, by mulberry and hemp, To a new-set hedge of chrysanthemums -- Not yet blooming although autumn had come. ...I knocked; no answer, not even a dog. I waited to ask your western neighbour; But he told me that daily you climb the mountain, Never returning until sunset.

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崔顥
黃鶴樓
昔人已乘黃鶴去， 此地空餘黃鶴樓。 黃鶴一去不復返， 白雲千載空悠悠。 晴川歷歷漢陽樹， 芳草萋萋鸚鵡洲。 日暮鄉關何處是？ 煙波江上使人愁。

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Cui Hao
THE YELLOW CRANE TERRACE
Where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven, Nothing is left now but the Yellow Crane Terrace. The yellow crane never revisited earth, And white clouds are flying without him for ever. ...Every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water, And Parrot Island is a nest of sweet grasses; But I look toward home, and twilight grows dark With a mist of grief on the river waves.

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崔顥
行經華陰
岧嶢太華俯咸京， 天外三峰削不成。 武帝祠前雲欲散， 仙人掌上雨初晴。 河山北枕秦關險， 驛樹西連漢畤平。 借問路傍名利客， 無如此處學長生。

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Cui Hao
PASSING THROUGH HUAYIN
Lords of the capital, sharp, unearthly, The Great Flower's three points pierce through heaven. Clouds are parting above the Temple of the Warring Emperor, Rain dries on the mountain, on the Giant's Palm. Ranges and rivers are the strength of this western gate, Whence roads and trails lead downward into China. ...O pilgrim of fame, O seeker of profit, Why not remain here and lengthen your days?

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祖詠
望薊門
燕臺一去客心驚， 簫鼓喧喧漢將營。 萬里寒光生積雪， 三邊曙色動危旌。 沙場烽火侵胡月， 海畔雲山擁薊城。 少小雖非投筆吏， 論功還欲請長纓。

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Zu Yong
LOOKING TOWARD AN INNER GATE OF THE GREAT WALL
My heart sank when I headed north from Yan Country To the camps of China echoing ith bugle and drum. ...In an endless cold light of massive snow, Tall flags on three borders rise up like a dawn. War-torches invade the barbarian moonlight, Mountain-clouds like chairmen bear the Great Wall from the sea. ...Though no youthful clerk meant to be a great general, I throw aside my writing-brush -- Like the student who tossed off cap for a lariat, I challenge what may come.

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李頎
送魏萬之京
朝聞遊子唱驪歌， 昨夜微霜初度河。 鴻雁不堪愁裡聽， 雲山況是客中過。 關城樹色催寒近， 御苑砧聲向晚多。 莫見長安行樂處， 空令歲月易蹉跎。

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Li Qi
A FAREWELL TO WEI WAN
The travellers' parting-song sounds in the dawn. Last night a first frost came over the river; And the crying of the wildgeese grieves my sad heart Bounded by a gloom of cloudy mountains.... Here in the Gate City, day will flush cold And washing-flails quicken by the gardens at twilight -- How long shall the capital content you, Where the months and the years so vainly go by?

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崔曙
九日登望仙臺呈劉明府
漢文皇帝有高臺， 此日登臨曙色開。 三晉雲山皆北向， 二陵風雨自東來。 關門令尹誰能識？ 河上仙翁去不回， 且欲竟尋彭澤宰， 陶然共醉菊花杯。

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Cui Shu
A CLIMB ON THE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY TO THE TERRACE WHENCE ONE SEES THE MAGICIAN A POEM SENT TO VICE-PREFECT LU
The Han Emperor Wen bequeathed us this terrace Which I climb to watch the coming dawn. Cloudy peaks run northward in the three Jin districts, And rains are blowing westward through the two Ling valleys. ...Who knows but me about the Guard at the Gate, Or where the Magician of the River Bank is, Or how to find that magistrate, that poet, Who was as fond as I am of chrysanthemums and winecups?

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李白
登金陵鳳凰台
鳳凰台上鳳凰游， 鳳去台空江自流。 吳宮花草埋幽徑， 晉代衣冠成古邱。 三台半落青山外， 二水中分白鷺洲。 總為浮雲能蔽日， 長安不見使人愁。

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Li Bai
ON CLIMBING IN NANJING TO THE TERRACE OF PHOENIXES
Phoenixes that played here once, so that the place was named for them, Have abandoned it now to this desolate river; The paths of Wu Palace are crooked with weeds; The garments of Qin are ancient dust. ...Like this green horizon halving the Three Peaks, Like this Island of White Egrets dividing the river, A cloud has arisen between the Light of Heaven and me, To hide his city from my melancholy heart.

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高適
送李少府貶峽中王少府貶長沙
嗟君此別意何如？ 駐馬銜杯問謫居。 巫峽啼猿數行淚， 衡陽歸雁幾封書。 青楓江上秋帆遠， 白帝城邊古木疏。 聖代即今多雨露， 暫時分手莫躊躇。

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Gao Shi
TO VICE-PREFECTS LI AND WANG DEGRADED AND TRANSFERRED TO XIAZHONG AND CHANGSHA
What are you thinking as we part from one another, Pulling in our horses for the stirrup-cups? Do these tear-streaks mean Wu Valley monkeys all weeping, Or wildgeese returning with news from Heng Mountain?.... On the river between green maples an autumn sail grows dim, There are only a few old trees by the wall of the White God City.... But the year is bound to freshen us with a dew of heavenly favour -- Take heart, we shall soon be together again!

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岑參
奉和中書舍人賈至早朝大明宮
雞鳴紫陌曙光寒， 鶯囀皇州春色闌。 金闕曉鐘開萬戶， 玉階仙仗擁千官。 花迎劍珮星初落， 柳拂旌旗露未乾。 獨有鳳凰池上客， 陽春一曲和皆難。

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Cen Can
AN EARLY AUDIENCE AT THE PALACE OF LIGHT HARMONIZING SECRETARY JIA ZHI'S POEM
Cock-crow, the Purple Road cold in the dawn; Linnet songs, court roofs tinted with April; At the Golden Gate morning bell, countless doors open, And up the jade steps float a thousand officials With flowery scabbards.... Stars have gone down; Willows are brushing the dew from the flags -- And, alone on the Lake of the Phoenix, a guest Is chanting too well The Song of Bright Spring.

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王維
和賈舍人早朝大明宮之作
絳幘雞人送曉籌， 尚衣方進翠雲裘。 九天閶闔開宮殿， 萬國衣冠拜冕旒。 日色纔臨仙掌動， 香煙欲傍袞龍浮。 朝罷須裁五色詔， 珮聲歸向鳳池頭。

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Wang Wei
AN EARLY AUDIENCE AT THE PALACE OF LIGHTHARMONIZING SECRETARY JIA ZHI POEM
The red-capped Cock-Man has just announced morning; The Keeper of the Robes brings Jade-Cloud Furs; Heaven's nine doors reveal the palace and its courtyards; And the coats of many countries bow to the Pearl Crown. Sunshine has entered the giants' carven palms; Incense wreathes the Dragon Robe: The audience adjourns-and the five-coloured edict Sets girdle-beads clinking toward the Lake of the Phoenix.

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王維
奉和聖製從蓬萊向興慶閣道中留春雨中春望之作應制
渭水自縈秦塞曲， 黃山舊遶漢宮斜。 鑾輿迥出千門柳， 閣道迴看上苑花。 雲裡帝城雙鳳闕， 雨中春樹萬人家。 為乘陽氣行時令， 不是宸遊玩物華。

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Wang Wei
LOOKING DOWN IN A SPRING-RAIN ON THE COURSE FROM FAIRY-MOUNTAIN PALACE TO THE PAVILION OF INCREASE HARMONIZING THE EMPEROR'S POEM
Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom; A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud; The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain; And now, when the heavens are propitious for action, Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

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王維
積雨輞川莊作
積雨空林煙火遲， 蒸藜炊黍餉東菑。 漠漠水田飛白鷺， 陰陰夏木囀黃鸝。 山中習靜觀朝槿， 松下清齋折露葵。 野老與人爭席罷， 海鷗何事更相疑？

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Wang Wei
IN MY LODGE AT WANG CHUAN AFTER A LONG RAIN
The woods have stored the rain, and slow comes the smoke As rice is cooked on faggots and carried to the fields; Over the quiet marsh-land flies a white egret, And mango-birds are singing in the full summer trees.... I have learned to watch in peace the mountain morningglories, To eat split dewy sunflower-seeds under a bough of pine, To yield the post of honour to any boor at all.... Why should I frighten sea gulls, even with a thought?

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王維
酬郭給事
洞門高閣靄餘輝， 桃李陰陰柳絮飛。 禁裡疏鐘官舍晚， 省中啼鳥吏人稀。 晨搖玉珮趨金殿， 夕奉天書拜瑣闈。 強欲從君無那老， 將因臥病解朝衣。

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Wang Wei
HARMONIZING A POEM BY PALACE-ATTENDANT GUO
High beyond the thick wall a tower shines with sunset Where peach and plum are blooming and the willowcotton flies. You have heard in your office the court-bell of twilight; Birds find perches, officials head for home. Your morning-jade will tinkle as you thread the golden palace; You will bring the word of Heaven from the closing gates at night. And I should serve there with you; but being full of years, I have taken off official robes and am resting from my troubles.

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杜甫
蜀相
丞相祠堂何處尋？ 錦官城外柏森森， 映階碧草自春色， 隔葉黃鸝空好音。 三顧頻煩天下計， 兩朝開濟老臣心。 出師未捷身先死， 長使英雄淚滿襟。

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Du Fu
THE TEMPLE OF THE PREMIER OF SHU
Where is the temple of the famous Premier? -- In a deep pine grove near the City of Silk, With the green grass of spring colouring the steps, And birds chirping happily under the leaves. ...The third summons weighted him with affairs of state And to two generations he gave his true heart, But before he could conquer, he was dead; And heroes have wept on their coats ever since.

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杜甫
客至
舍南舍北皆春水， 但見群鷗日日來。 花徑不曾緣客掃， 蓬門今始為君開。 盤飧市遠無兼味， 樽酒家貧只舊醅。 肯與鄰翁相對飲， 隔籬呼取盡餘杯。

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Du Fu
A HEARTY WELCOME TO VICE-PREFECT CUI
North of me, south of me, spring is in flood, Day after day I have seen only gulls.... My path is full of petals -- I have swept it for no others. My thatch gate has been closed -- but opens now for you. It's a long way to the market, I can offer you little -- Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups. Shall we summon my elderly neighbour to join us, Call him through the fence, and pour the jar dry?

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杜甫
野望
西山白雪三城戍， 南浦清江萬里橋。 海內風塵諸弟隔， 天涯涕淚一身遙。 唯將遲暮供多病， 未有涓埃答聖朝。 跨馬出郊時極目， 不堪人事日蕭條。

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Du Fu
A VIEW OF THE WILDERNESS
Snow is white on the westward mountains and on three fortified towns, And waters in this southern lake flash on a long bridge. But wind and dust from sea to sea bar me from my brothers; And I cannot help crying, I am so far away. I have nothing to expect now but the ills of old age. I am of less use to my country than a grain of dust. I ride out to the edge of town. I watch on the horizon, Day after day, the chaos of the world.

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杜甫
聞官軍收河南河北
劍外忽傳收薊北， 初聞涕淚滿衣裳。 卻看妻子愁何在？ 漫卷詩書喜欲狂。 白日放歌須縱酒， 青春作伴好還鄉。 即從巴峽穿巫峽， 便下襄陽向洛陽。

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Du Fu
BOTH SIDES OF THE YELLOW RIVER RECAPTURED BY THE IMPERIAL ARMY
News at this far western station! The north has been recaptured! At first I cannot check the tears from pouring on my coat -- Where is my wife? Where are my sons? Yet crazily sure of finding them, I pack my books and poems- - And loud my song and deep my drink On the green spring-day that starts me home, Back from this mountain, past another mountain, Up from the south, north again-to my own town!

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杜甫
登高
風急天高猿嘯哀， 渚清沙白鳥飛迴。 無邊落木蕭蕭下， 不盡長江滾滾來。 萬里悲秋常作客， 百年多病獨登臺。 艱難苦恨繁霜鬢， 潦倒新停濁酒杯。

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Du Fu
A LONG CLIMB
In a sharp gale from the wide sky apes are whimpering, Birds are flying homeward over the clear lake and white sand, Leaves are dropping down like the spray of a waterfall, While I watch the long river always rolling on. I have come three thousand miles away. Sad now with autumn And with my hundred years of woe, I climb this height alone. Ill fortune has laid a bitter frost on my temples, Heart-ache and weariness are a thick dust in my wine.

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杜甫
登樓
花近高樓傷客心， 萬方多難此登臨。 錦江春色來天地， 玉壘浮雲變古今。 北極朝庭終不改， 西山寇盜莫相侵。 可憐後主還祠廟， 日暮聊為梁父吟。

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Du Fu
FROM AN UPPER STORY
Flowers, as high as my window, hurt the heart of a wanderer For I see, from this high vantage, sadness everywhere. The Silken River, bright with spring, floats between earth and heaven Like a line of cloud by the Jade Peak, between ancient days and now. ...Though the State is established for a while as firm as the North Star And bandits dare not venture from the western hills, Yet sorry in the twilight for the woes of a longvanished Emperor, I am singing the song his Premier sang when still unestranged from the mountain.

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杜甫
宿府
清秋幕府井梧寒， 獨宿江城蠟炬殘。 永夜角聲悲自語， 中天月色好誰看？ 風塵荏苒音書絕， 關塞蕭條行陸難。 已忍伶俜十年事， 強移棲息一枝安。
又作路

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Du Fu
STAYING AT THE GENERAL'S HEADQUARTERS
The autumn night is clear and cold in the lakka-trees of this courtyard. I am lying forlorn in the river-town. I watch my guttering candle. I hear the lonely notes of a bugle sounding through the dark. The moon is in mid-heaven, but there's no one to share it with me. My messengers are scattered by whirls of rain and sand. City-gates are closed to a traveller; mountains are walls in my way -- Yet, I who have borne ten years of pitiable existence, Find here a perch, a little branch, and am safe for this one night.

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杜甫
閣夜
歲暮陰陽催短景， 天涯霜雪霽寒霄。 五更鼓角聲悲壯， 三峽星河影動搖。 野哭千家聞戰伐， 夷歌數處起漁樵。 臥龍躍馬終黃土， 人事音書漫寂寥。

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Du Fu
NIGHT IN THE WATCH-TOWER
While winter daylight shortens in the elemental scale And snow and frost whiten the cold-circling night, Stark sounds the fifth-watch with a challenge of drum and bugle. ...The stars and the River of Heaven pulse over the three mountains; I hear women in the distance, wailing after the battle; I see barbarian fishermen and woodcutters in the dawn. ...Sleeping-Dragon, Plunging-Horse, are no generals now, they are dust -- Hush for a moment, O tumult of the world.

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杜甫
詠懷古跡五首之一
支離東北風塵際， 漂泊西南天地間。 三峽樓臺淹日月， 五溪衣服共雲山。 羯胡事主終無賴， 詞客哀時且未還。 庾信平生最蕭瑟， 暮年詩賦動江關。

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Du Fu
POETIC THOUGHTS ON ANCIENT SITES I
Forlorn in the northeast among wind and dust, Drifting in the southwest between heaven and earth, Lingering for days and months in towers and terraces at the Three Gorges, Sharing clouds and mountains with the costumes of the Five Streams. The barbarian serving the ruler in the end was unreliable. The wandering poet lamenting the times had no chance to return. Yu Xin throughout his life was most miserable, In his waning years his poetry stirred the land of rivers and passes.

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杜甫
詠懷古跡五首之二
搖落深知宋玉悲， 風流儒雅亦吾師。 悵望千秋一灑淚， 蕭條異代不同時。 江山故宅空文藻， 雲雨荒臺豈夢思。 最是楚宮俱泯滅， 舟人指點到今疑。

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Du Fu
POETIC THOUGHTS ON ANCIENT SITES II
"Decay and decline": deep knowledge have I of Sung Yu's grief. Romantic and refined, he too is my teacher. Sadly looking across a thousand autumns, one shower of tears, Melancholy in different epochs, not at the same time. Among rivers and mountains his old abode -- empty his writings; Deserted terrace of cloud and rain -- surely not just imagined in a dream? Utterly the palaces of Chu are all destroyed and ruined, The fishermen pointing them out today are unsure.

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杜甫
詠懷古跡五首之三
群山萬壑赴荊門， 生長明妃尚有村。 一去紫臺連朔漠， 獨留青塚向黃昏。 畫圖省識春風面， 環珮空歸月下魂。 千載琵琶作胡語， 分明怨恨曲中論。

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Du Fu
THOUGHTS OF OLD TIME III
Ten thousand ranges and valleys approach the Jing Gate And the village in which the Lady of Light was born and bred. She went out from the purple palace into the desertland; She has now become a green grave in the yellow dusk. Her face ! Can you picture a wind of the spring? Her spirit by moonlight returns with a tinkling Song of the Tartars on her jade guitar, Telling her eternal sorrow.

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杜甫
詠懷古跡五首之四
蜀主征吳幸三峽， 崩年亦在永安宮。 翠華想像空山裡， 玉殿虛無野寺中。 古廟杉松巢水鶴， 歲時伏臘走村翁。 武侯祠屋常鄰近， 一體君臣祭祀同。

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Du Fu
POETIC THOUGHTS ON ANCIENT SITES IV
The ruler of Shu had his eyes on Wu and progressed as far as the Three Gorges. In the year of his demise, too, he was in the Palace of Eternal Peace. The blue-green banners can be imagined on the empty mountain, The jade palace is a void in the deserted temple. In the pines of the ancient shrine aquatic cranes nest; At summer and winter festivals the comers are village elders. The Martial Marquis's memorial shrine is ever nearby; In union, sovereign and minister share the sacrifices together.

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杜甫
詠懷古跡五首之五
諸葛大名垂宇宙， 宗臣遺像肅清高。 三分割據紆籌策， 萬古雲霄一羽毛。 伯仲之間見伊呂， 指揮若定失蕭曹。 運移漢祚終難復， 志決身殲軍務勞。

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Du Fu
THOUGHTS OF OLD TIME V
Zhuge's prestige transcends the earth; There is only reverence for his face; Yet his will, among the Three Kingdoms at war, Was only as one feather against a flaming sky. He was brother of men like Yi and Lu And in time would have surpassed the greatest of all statesmen. Though he knew there was no hope for the House of Han, Yet he wielded his mind for it, yielded his life.

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劉長卿
江州重別薛六柳八二員外
生涯豈料承優詔？ 世事空知學醉歌。 江上月明胡雁過， 淮南木落楚山多。 寄身且喜滄洲近， 顧影無如白髮何！ 今日龍鐘人共老， 媿君猶遣慎風波。

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Liu Changquing
ON LEAVING GUIJIANG AGAIN TO XUE AND LIU
Dare I, at my age, accept my summons, Knowing of the world's ways only wine and song?.... Over the moon-edged river come wildgeese from the Tartars; And the thinner the leaves along the Huai, the wider the southern mountains.... I ought to be glad to take my old bones back to the capital, But what am I good for in that world, with my few white hairs?.... As bent and decrepit as you are, I am ashamed to thank you, When you caution me that I may encounter thunderbolts.

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劉長卿
長沙過賈誼宅
三年謫宦此棲遲， 萬古惟留楚客悲。 秋草獨尋人去後， 寒林空見日斜時。 漢文有道恩猶薄， 湘水無情弔豈知？ 寂寂江山搖落處， 憐君何事到天涯？

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Liu Changqing
ON PASSING JIA YI'S HOUSE IN CHANGSHA
Here, where you spent your three years' exile, To be mourned in Chu ten thousand years, Can I trace your footprint in the autumn grass -- Or only slanting sunlight through the bleak woods? If even good Emperor Wen was cold-hearted, Could you hope that the dull river Xiang would understand you, These desolate waters, these taciturn mountains, When you came, like me, so far away?

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劉長卿
自夏口至鸚洲夕望岳陽寄源中丞
汀洲無浪復無煙， 楚客相思益渺然。 漢口夕陽斜渡鳥， 洞庭秋水遠連天。 孤城背嶺寒吹角， 獨戍臨江夜泊船。 賈誼上書憂漢室， 長沙謫去古今憐。

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Liu Changqing
AN EVENING VIEW OF THE CITY OF YOUZHOU AFTER COMING FROM HANKOU TO PARROT ISLAND A POEM SENT TO MY FRIEND GOVERNOR YUAN
No ripples in the river, no mist on the islands, Yet the landscape is blurred toward my friend in Chu.... Birds in the slanting sun cross Hankou, And the autumn sky mingles with Lake Dongting. ...From a bleak mountain wall the cold tone of a bugle Reminds me, moored by a ruined fort, That Jia Yi's loyal plea to the House of Han Banned him to Changsha, to be an exile.

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錢起
贈闕下裴舍人
二月黃鸝飛上林， 春城紫禁曉陰陰。 長樂鐘聲花外盡， 龍池柳色雨中深。 陽和不散窮途恨， 霄漢長懷捧日心。 獻賦十年猶未遇， 羞將白髮對華簪。

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Qian Qi
TO MY FRIEND AT THE CAPITAL SECRETARY PEI
Finches flash yellow through the Imperial Grove Of the Forbidden City, pale with spring dawn; Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows; But spring is no help to a man bewildered, Who would be like a cloud upholding the Light of Heaven, Yet whose poems, ten years refused, are shaming These white hairs held by the petalled pin.

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韋應物
寄李儋元錫
去年花裡逢君別， 今日花開又一年。 世事茫茫難自料， 春愁黯黯獨成眠。 身多疾病思田里， 邑有流亡愧俸錢。 聞道欲來相問訊， 西樓望月幾回圓。

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Wei Yingwu
TO MY FRIENDS LI DAN AND YUANXI
We met last among flowers, among flowers we parted, And here, a year later, there are flowers again; But, with ways of the world too strange to foretell, Spring only brings me grief and fatigue. I am sick, and I think of my home in the country- Ashamed to take pay while so many are idle. ...In my western tower, because of your promise, I have watched the full moons come and go.

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韓翃
同題仙游觀
仙臺初見五城樓， 風物淒淒宿雨收。 山色遙連秦樹晚， 砧聲近報漢宮秋。 疏松影落空壇靜， 細草香閑小洞幽。 何用別尋方外去？ 人間亦自有丹丘。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Han Hong
INSCRIBED IN THE TEMPLE OF THE WANDERING GENIE
I face, high over this enchanted lodge, the Court of the Five Cities of Heaven, And I see a countryside blue and still, after the long rain. The distant peaks and trees of Qin merge into twilight, And Had Palace washing-stones make their autumnal echoes. Thin pine-shadows brush the outdoor pulpit, And grasses blow their fragrance into my little cave. ...Who need be craving a world beyond this one? Here, among men, are the Purple Hills