Category Archives: Admiration
Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day - 春日醉起言志
“Life in the World is but a big dream;
I will not spoil it by any labour or care.”
So saying, I was drunk all the day,
Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door.
When I woke up, I blinked at the garden-lawn;
A lonely bird was singing amid the flowers.
I asked myself, had the day been [...]
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...
Falling Petals - 落花
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.
Seeing Li Bai in a Dream I - 梦李白・其一
There are sobs when death is the cause of parting;
But life has its partings again and again.
…From the poisonous damps of the southern river
You had sent me not one sign from your exile –
Till you came to me last night in a dream,
Because I am always thinking of you….
I wondered if it were really you,
Venturing [...]
A Farm-House on the Wei River - 渭川田家
In the slant of the sun on the country-side,
Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;
And a rugged old man in a thatch door
Leans on a staff and thinks of his son, the herd-boy.
A Cicada - 蝉