Tag Archives: mountains
Mount Zhongnan - 终南山
Its massive height near the City of Heaven
Joins a thousand mountains to the corner of the sea.
Clouds, when I look back, close behind me,
Mists, when I enter them, are gone.
Leave-taking Near Shoku - 送友人入蜀
They say the roads of Sanso are steep,
Sheer as the mountains.
The walls rise in a man’s face,
Clouds grow out of the hill
at his horse’s bridle.
Sweet trees are on the paved way of the Shin,
Their trunks burst through the paving,
And freshets are bursting their ice
in the midst of Shoku, a proud city.
Men’s fates are already set,
There [...]
The City of Choan - 登金陵凤凰台
The Three Mountains fall through the far heaven,
The isle of White Heron
splits the two streams apart.
Now the high clouds cover the sun
Tchirek Song - 敕勒歌
Tchirek River
Lies under the Dark Mountains:
Where the sky is like the sides of a tent
Stretched down over the Great Steppe.
The sky is gray, gray:
And the steppe wide, wide:
Over grass that the wind has battered low
Sheep and oxen roam.
For Wei Pa - 赠卫八处士
All our days rarely meeting
Like those stars in their constellations,
This evening, what an evening,
We’ve shared the flickering candle.
Youth and power swiftly pass,
Hair on our heads is quickly white,
Half of those we knew have vanished,
Pain of that knowledge hurts us.
Who’d guess at twenty years,
Before your house saw my return?
Last time you’d not even married.
Now suddenly sons [...]
A View of T’ai-Shan - 望岳