1. at heron lodge
Don 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.
2. Acacia
Don 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. a note left for an absent ecluse
Don 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?.
4.
Tang Wang Wei
When people are idle, sweet-scented osmanthus falls, and the night is quiet and the mountains are empty.
when the moon comes out, the birds startle the mountains, and when they sing in the spring stream.
5. Grass
Tang Bai Juyi
boundless grasses over the plain, come and go with every season.
wildfire never quite consumes them, they are tall once more in the spring wind.
sweet they press on the old high-road, and reach the crumbling city-gate.
o Prince of Friends, you are gone again, I hear them sighing after you.
6. Thoughts on a Quiet Night
Tang Li Bai
so bright a gleam on the foot of my bed, could there have been a frost already?.
lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight, sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.
7. Spring Dawn
Don Meng Haoran
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, everywhere round me the singing of birds.
but now I remember the night, the storm, and I wonder how many blossoms were broken.
8. a night-mooring on the jiande river
Don 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!.
9. farewell to vice-prefect du setting out for his official post in shu
Tang Wangbo
by this wall that surrounds the three Qin districts, through a mist that makes five rivers one.
we bid each other a sad farewell, we two officials going opposite ways.
and yet, while China holds our friendship, and heaven remains our neighbourhood.
inaction is in the wrong way, and children * * * touch the towel.
1.
Tang Wen Tingyun
In the morning, he started to levy priests, and the guests mourned their hometown.
chickens crow in Maodian Moon, and there is no trace of Banqiao frost.
Mistletoe leaves fall on the mountain road, and the wall of Zhihuaming Post Office.
because of thinking about Duling's dream, the geese are full of returning to the pond.
11. looking at the moon and thinking of one far away
Don Zhang Jiuling
the moon, grown full now over the sea, Tianya * * * At this time.
brings to separated hearts, the long thoughtfulness of night.
it is no darker though I blow out my candle, it is no warmer though I put on my coat.
so I leave my message with the moon, and turn to my bed, hoping for dreams.
12, "Seven Steps Poetry"
Cao Zhi
Boiled beans and held them as soup, and fermented them as juice.
honey burns under the kettle, and beans weep in the kettle.
since we are born from the same root, why are we in such a hurry?
13,
A trip to the mountains in late autumn
Don Cen Can
A tired horse lies in Nagano, and the sunset leads to Tianjin.
the mountain wind blows the empty forest, whispering like someone.
it's cool and rainy, and there is no flying dust on the stone road.
A thousand thoughts gather at dusk, and everything is sad and sad.
the thrush sang last night, and the grass was old.
it's natural to suffer a lot when you're traveling far away.
14. Spring Hope
Tang Du Fu
though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure, and spring comes green again to trees and grasses.
where petals have been shed like tears, and lonely birds have sung their grief.
after the war-fires of three months, one message from home is worth a ton of gold.
I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin, to hold the hairpins any more.
15, "Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night"
Tang Du Fu
Good rain knows the season, when spring happens.
sneak into the night with the wind and moisten things silently.
the wild trails are all dark, and the river boats are all bright.
if you look at the red and wet place, flowers will weigh heavily on Jinguan City.