Category Archives: Fraternal Love
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 [...]
Seeing Li Bai in a Dream II - 梦李白・其二
This cloud, that has drifted all day through the sky,
May, like a wanderer, never come back….
Three nights now I have dreamed of you –
As tender, intimate and real as though I were awake.
And then, abruptly rising to go,
You told me the perils of adventure
By river and lake – the storms, the wrecks,
The fears that are [...]
To Wang Lun - 赠汪伦
I was about to sail away in a junk,
When suddenly I heard
The sound of stamping and singing on the bank -
It was you and your friends come to bid me farewell.
The Peach Flower Lake is a thousand fathoms deep,
But it cannot compare, O Wang Lun,
With the depth of your love for me.
Thinking of Li Po - 天末怀李白
A cool breeze springs up from the ends of the sky.
Oh! Master, what words are you whispering nigh?
The swans and the geese in their passage are due.
The rivers and lakes Autumn’s chill streams subdue.
My writings all fail me, with sorrow I say;
And low-chuckling ghouls lie in wait by the way.
To you of the grief in [...]
To His Brother - 月夜忆舍弟
The evening drum has emptied every street,
One autumn goose screams on its frontier flight,
The crystal dew is glittering at my feet,
The moon sheds, as of old, her silvery light.
The brothers,– ah, where are they? Scattered each;
No home whence one might learn the other’s harms.
Letters has oft miscarried: shall they reach
Now when the land rings with [...]
A Friend Expected - 宿业师山房待丁大不至