Tag Archives: life
Goodbye to Meng Haoran - 送别
Dismounted, o’er wine we had said our last say;
Then I whisper, “Dear friend, tell me whither away.”
“Alas!” He replied, “I am sick of life’s ills
“And I long for repose on the slumbering hills.
“But oh seek not to pierce where my footsteps may stray:
“The white clouds will soothe me for ever and ay.”
On the Birth of His Son - 洗儿戏作
Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
Chu-Ch‘ēn Village - 朱陈村
In Hsü-chou, in the District of Ku-fēng
There lies a village whose name is Chu-ch‘ēn–
A hundred miles away from the county-town,
Amid fields of hemp and green of mulberry-trees.
Click, click goes the sound of the spinning-wheel;
Mules and oxen pack the village-streets.
The girls go drawing the water from the brook;
The men go gathering fire-wood on the hill.
So far [...]
Dum Res Et Aetas - 曲江二首
From the court every eve to the pawnshop I pass,
To come back from the river the drunkest of men;
As often as not I’m in debt for my glass; –
Well, few of us live to be threescore and ten.
The butterfly flutters from flower to flower,
The dragon-fly sips and springs lightly away,
Each creature is merry its brief [...]
A Farm-House on the Wei River - 渭川田家