Li Bai

Speak of the Blessed Islands men from the Ocean’s brim. Truth is hid in their endless billows and mist-wreaths dim. Tell of the T’ien-mu Mountain men in the land of Yore, Seen ther…

translated by Arthur Waley Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-trees…

translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell The heavy clouds are broken and blowing, And once more I can see the wide common stretching beyond the four sides of the city.…

I The many-coloured clouds make me think of her upper garments, of her lower garments; Flowers make me think of her face. The Spring wind brushes the blossoms against the balustrad…

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playin…

燭龍棲寒門，光曜猶旦開。 日月照之何不及此，唯有北風號怒天上來。 燕山雪花大如席，片片吹落軒轅臺。 幽州思婦十二月，停歌罷笑雙蛾摧。…

冬夜夜寒覺夜長，沈吟久坐坐北堂。 冰合井泉月入閨，缸照悲啼。 缸滅，啼轉多。 掩妾淚，聽君歌。…

漢帝阿嬌，貯之黃金屋。 咳唾落九天，隨風生珠玉。 寵極愛還歇，妒深情卻疏。 長門一步地，不肯暫迴車。…

棄我去者，昨日之日不留。 亂我心者，今日之日憂。 長風萬里送秋，對此可以高樓。 文章建安骨，中間小謝又清發。…

青天有月來幾時？我今停杯一問之。 人攀明月不可得，月行却與人相隨。 皎如飛鏡臨丹闕，綠烟滅盡清輝發。 但見宵從海上來，寧知曉向雲間沒？…

登高丘，望遠海。 六鼇骨已霜，三山流安在。 扶桑半摧折，白日沈光彩。 銀臺金闕如夢中，秦皇漢武空相待。…

攀天莫登龍，走山莫騎虎。 貴賤結交心不移，唯有嚴陵及光武。 周公稱大聖，管蔡寧相容。 漢謠一斗粟，不與淮南舂。…

嚴風吹霜海草凋，筋幹精堅胡馬驕。 漢家戰士三十萬，將軍兼領霍嫖姚。 流星白羽腰間插，劒花秋蓮光出匣。 天兵照雪下玉關，虜箭如沙射金甲。…