A poem describing autumn scenery to express his worries in his later years

leaves are dropping down like the spray of a waterfall, while I watch the long river always rolling on.

Denggao

Time: Tang Author: Du Fu genre: Qilv category:

in a sharp gale from the wide sky apes are whimpering, birds are flying homeward over the clear lake and white sand.

leaves are dropping down like the spray of a waterfall, while I watch the long river always rolling on.

I have come three thousand miles away. Sad now with autumn, and with my hundred years of woe, I climb this height alone.

ill fortune has laid a bitter frost on my temples, heart-ache and weariness are a thick dust in my wine.