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Setting Sail on the Yangzi to Secretary Yuan - 初发扬子寄元大校书
In Yangzhou trees linger bell-notes of evening,
Marking the day and the place of our parting....
When shall we meet again and where?
...Destiny is a boat on the waves,
Lazy Man’s Song - 咏慵
I have got patronage, but am too lazy to use it;
I have got land, but am too lazy to farm it.
My house leaks; I am too lazy to mend it.
My clothes are torn; I am too lazy to darn them.
I have got wine, but am too lazy to drink;
So it’s just the same as if [...]
Separation - 感逝寄远
Those that are left, - where are they now?
They are all scattered, - a thousand miles away.
Those I have known and loved through all my life,
On the fingers of my hand - how many do I count?
Where are They? - 江楼感怀
Alone I mount to the kiosque which stands
on the river-bank, and sigh,
While the moonbeams dance on the tops of the waves
where the waters touch the sky;
For the lovely scene is to last year’s scene
as like as like can be,
All but the friends, the much-loved friends,
who gazed at the moon with me.
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.
Grasses - 草