Poems about the loneliness and homesickness of being a guest in a foreign land:
1. Before I have taken over the world, I don’t want to look back at my hometown. ——Linghu Chu's "Four Poems on Youth, Part Three"
Translation: A corner of the country is still occupied, and the emperor has not taken back Hehuang. If this situation does not change, I will not look back at my hometown.
2. Where is my hometown? It is a leisurely time to return to your thoughts. ——"Wen Yan" by Wei Yingwu of the Tang Dynasty
Translation: My hometown is far away and unclear. I don't know where it is? The thoughts of returning home are endless.
3. Thinking of returning home is like the Fen River, and there is no day without it. ——Li Bai's "Early Autumn in Taiyuan"
Translation: Homesickness is like the endless water of the Fen River, flowing leisurely towards hometown all the time.
4. The night is about to end in a year, and no one has returned from thousands of miles away. ——Dai Shulun's "Stone Station on a Big Night"
Translation: Tonight is the last night of the year, and I am still wandering thousands of miles away and unable to return home.
5. I know the moon is not sleeping in the distance, and my homesickness is in the fishing songs. ——Du Xunhe's "Sending People to Wu"
Translation: Thinking of you in the distance, when the moon is awake, hearing the fishermen's songs on the river will definitely touch your homesickness.