Category Archives: Affection
The Phoenix Bird Tower - 登金陵凤凰台
Here once on the Phoenix Bird Tower
the phoenix birds came to rest,
Now the birds are gone, the tower empty;
only the river flows aimlessly on.
Here where the garden of Wu palace bloomed,
the deep grass hides the paths;
Where the kings of Chin vaunted their regalia,
is only an old hill.
I see the three peaks hang aloft
as though half-dropt [...]
A Friend Expected - 宿业师山房待丁大不至
Over the chain of giant peaks
The great red sun goes down,
And in the stealthy floods of night
The distant valleys drown.
A Farewell to Secretary Shu-Yun at the Hsieh T’iao Villa in Hsuan-Chou - 宣州谢楼饯别校书叔云
Since yesterday had to throw me and bolt,
Today has hurt my heart even more.
The autumn wildgeese have a long wind for escort
As I face them from this villa, drinking my wine.
The bones of great writers are your brushes, in the School of Heaven,
And I am a Lesser Hsieh growing up by your side.
We both are [...]
The Beautiful Xi Shi - 西施咏
Since beauty is honoured all over the Empire,
How could Xi Shi remain humbly at home? -
Washing clothes at dawn by a southern lake -
And that evening a great lady in a palace of the north...
A poem to a Taoist Hermit on Ch’uan-Chiao Mountain - 寄全椒山中道士
My office has grown cold today;
And I suddenly think of my mountain friend
Gathering firewood down in the valley
Or boiling white stones for potatoes in his hut…
I wish I might take him a cup of wine
To cheer him through the evening storm;
But in fallen leaves that have heaped the bare slopes,
How should I ever find his [...]
Sparrow’s Ladle - 芄兰