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Beyond Seeing - 古意呈补阙乔知之

(Written to Music) A girl of the Lu clan who lives in Golden-Wood Hall, Where swallows perch in pairs on beams of tortoise-shell, Hears the washing-mallets’ cold beat shake the leaves down. …The Liao-yang expedition will be gone ten years, And messages are lost in the White Wolf River. …Here in the City of the Red Phoenix autumn nights are long, Where [...]
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In the Quiet Night - 静夜思

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed – Could there have been a frost already? Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight. Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.
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Moon at Night in Ch’ang-an - 月夜

North of here in the moonlight She too looks up in loneliness. I am sad for our little children, Too young to think of far off Ch’ang-an. Clouds of hair wet with jewelled mist. Cold light on arms of jade. When will we two stir the silk curtains While one moon shows the stain of tears?
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Down Zhongnan Mountain to the Kind Pillow and Bowl of Husi - 下终南山过斛斯山人宿置酒

Down the blue mountain in the evening, Moonlight was my homeward escort. Looking back, I saw my path Lie in levels of deep shadow....
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A Mountain Revelry - 友人会宿

In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed, But at last drunkenness overtook us; And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain, The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet.
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The Solitude of Night - 自遣

It was at a wine party— I lay in a drowse, knowing it not. The blown flowers fell and filled my lap. When I arose, still drunken, The birds had all gone to their nests, And there remained but few of my comrades. I went along the river—alone in the moonlight.
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