1. Jinse-Li Shangyin
I wonder why my inlaid harp has fifty strings, each with its flower-like fret an interval of youth.
the sage Chuangzi is day-dreaming, bewitched by butterflies, the spring-heart of Emperor Wang is crying in a cuckoo.
mermen weep their pearly tears down a moon-green sea, blue fields are breathing their jade to the sun.
and a moment that ought to have lasted for ever, has come and gone before I knew.
2. Acacia-Wang Wei
when those red berries come in springtime, flushing on your southland branches.
take home an armful, for my sake, as a symbol of our love.
3. Frost Moon —— Li Shangyin
When I first heard of the wild goose, there was no cicada, and a hundred feet of high water reached the sky.
Su E, a young woman, is cold-tolerant, and she fights in the frost in the middle of the month.
4. my retreat at mount zhongnan-Wang Wei
my heart in middle age found the Way, and I came to dwell at the foot of this mountain.
I come and go alone, amid beauty that is all for me.
I will walk till the water checks my path, then sit and watch the rising clouds.
and some day meet an old wood-cutter, and talk and laugh and never return.