1. Lu Chai
Wang Wei
there seems to be no one on the empty mountain, and yet I think I hear a voice.
where sunlight, entering a grove, shines back to me from the green moss.
2. Zhuli Pavilion
Wang Wei
leaning alone in the close bamboos, I am playing my lute and humming a song.
too softly for anyone to hear, except my comrade, the bright moon.
3.
Farewell
Wang Wei
friend, I have watched you down the mountain, till now in the dark I close my thatch door.
grasses return again green in the spring and but O my Prince of Friends, do you?
4. Acacia
Wang Wei
when those red berries come in springtime and flushing on your southland branches?
take home an armful, for my sake, as a symbol of our love
5. Luchai
Author: Wang Wei
there seems to be no one on the empty mountain, and yet I think I hear a voice.
Back into the deep forest, shines back to me from the green moss.
6.
Miscellaneous poems
Wang Wei
you who have come from my old country, tell me what has happened there!.
was the plum, when you passed my silken window, opening its first cold blossom??
7. Send Cui Jiu
Pei Di
though you think to return to this maze of mountains and oh, let them brim your heart with wonder!.
remember the fisherman from Wuling, who had only a day in the Peach-Blossom Country.
8. Looking at the snow in the south
Zu Yong
see how Zhongnan Mountain soars, with its white top over floating clouds.
and a warm sky opening at the snow-line, while the town in the valley grows colder and colder.
9.
a night-mooring on the jiande river
Meng Haoran
while my little boat moves on its mooring of mist, and daylight wanes, old memories begin.
how wide the world was, how close the trees to heaven, and how clear in the water the nearness of the moon!.
1.
resentment
Li Bai
how beautiful she looks, opening the pearly casement, and how quiet she leans, and how troubled her brow is!.
you may see the tears now, bright on her cheek, but not the man she so bitterly loves?
11.
Eight arrays
Du Fu
the Three Kingdoms, divided, have been bound by his greatness, the Eight-Sided Fortress is founded on his fame.
beside the changing river, it stands stony as his grief, that he never conquered the Kingdom of Wu.
12. at heron lodge
Wang Zhihuan
mountains cover the white sun, and oceans drain the golden river.
but you widen your view three hundred miles, by going up one flight of stairs.
13.
Send Ling Che
Liu Changqing
from the temple, deep in its tender bamboos, comes the low sound of an evening bell.
while the hat of a pilgrim carries the sunset, farther and farther down the green mountain.
14. Playing the piano
Liu Changqing
your seven strings are like the voice, of a cold wind in the pines.
singing old beloved songs, which no one cares for any more.
15.
Send to people
Liu Changqing
can drifting clouds and white storks, be tenants in this world of ours?!
or you still live on Wozhou Mountain, now that people are coming here?.
16.
an autumn night message to qiu
Wei Yingwu
as I walk in the cool of the autumn night, thinking of you, singing my poem.
I hear a mountain pine-cone fall, you also seem to be awake.
17.
Listen to the Zheng
Li Duan
her hands of white jade by a window of snow, are glimmering on a golden-fretted harp.
and to draw the quick eye of Chou Yu, she touches a wrong note now and then.
18.
Bride
Wang Jian
on the third day, taking my place to cook, washing my hands to make the bridal soup.
I decide that not my mother-in-law, but my husband's young sister shall have the fiat taste.
19. Yutai
Quan Deyu
last night my girdle came undone, now [Insect is happy] Zifei.
so here are my paints and here are my powders, and a welcome for my yoke again.
2.
Jiang Xue
Liu Zongyuan
a hundred mountains and no bird, a thousand paths without a footprint.
a little boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow.
21. Palace
Yuan Zhen
in the faded old imperial palace, peonies are red, but no one comes to see them.
the ladies-in-waiting have grown white-haired, debating the pomps of Emperor Xuanzong.
22.
a suggestion to my friend liu
Bai Juyi
there's a gleam of green in an old bottle, there's a stir of red in the quiet stove.
there's a feeling of snow in the dusk outside, what about a cup of wine inside??
23.
He Manzi
Zhang Hu
a thousand miles from her home, a lady of the palace lived here these twenty years.
yet ask her for this song and, with the first few words of it, see how she tries to hold back her tears.
24. the leyou tombs
Li Shangyin
with twilight shadows in my heart, I have driven up among the Leyou Tombs.
the sunset is infinitely beautiful, buried by the coming night.
25.
a note left for an absent ecluse
Jia Dao
when I questioned your pupil, under a pine-tree, "My teacher," he answered, "went for herbs".
but toward which corner of the mountain, how can I tell, through all these clouds?.
26. Crossing the Han River
Li Pin
away from home, I was longing for news, winter after winter, spring after spring.
now, nearing my village, meeting people, I dare not ask a single question.
27.
spring grievances
Jin Changxu
drive the orioles away, all their music from the trees.
they wakened her when she dreamed, that she went to Liaoxi Camp to join him there.