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山中相送罷， 日暮掩柴扉。

千山鳥飛絕， 萬徑人蹤滅。

Xibiren

夜思

登鸛雀樓

As I walk in the cool of the autumn night,

But not the man she so bitterly loves.

Flushing on your southland branches,

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Friend, I have watched you down the mountain

Oh, let them brim your heart with wonder!....

AT HERON LODGE

王維

And how quiet she leans, and how troubled her brow is!

西鄙人

I decide that not my mother-in-law

賈島

From the temple, deep in its tender bamboos,

Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.

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Meng Haoran

Now that people are coming here?

The ladies-in-waiting have grown white-haired

But O my Prince of Friends, do you?

AN AUTUMN NIGHT MESSAGE TO QIU

And to draw the quick eye of Chou Yu,

Theres a gleam of green in an old bottle,

柳宗元

IN A RETREAT AMONG BAMBOOS

And oceans drain the golden river;

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And a welcome for my yoke again.

RIVER-SNOW

送靈澈

送崔九

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THE LEYOU TOMBS

Li Pin

Comes the low sound of an evening bell,

Which no one cares for any more.

There seems to be no one on the empty mountain....

A lady of the palace these twenty years,

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Of a cold wind in the pines,

Tell me what has happened there ! --

願君多採擷， 此物最相思。

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昨夜裙帶解， 今朝蟢子飛。

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To see the sun, for all his glory,

鹿柴

至今窺牧馬， 不敢過臨洮。

終南望余雪

Pei Di

故國三千里， 深宮二十年。

深林人不知， 明月來相照。

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玉台體

Your seven strings are like the voice

Li Bai

ON SEEING THE SNOW-PEAK OF ZHONGNAN

江雪

行宮

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250

王維

A BITTER LOVE

李端

來日綺窗前， 寒梅著花未。

Last night my girdle came undone,

夜來風雨聲， 花落知多少。

And this morning a luck-beetle flew over my bed.

A little boat, a bamboo cloak,

CROSSING THE HAN RIVER

Liu Zongyuan

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問劉十九

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ON HEARING HER PLAY THE HARP

Winter after winter, spring after spring.

Buried by the coming night.

Dare ford the river boundary.

Mountains cover the white sun,

古調雖自愛， 今人多不彈。

And yet I think I hear a voice,

宿建德江

怨情

Leaning alone in the close bamboos,

五言絕句

元稹

Where sunlight, entering a grove,

空山松子落， 幽人應未眠。

FAREWELL TO A BUDDHIST MONK

白日依山盡， 黃河入海流。

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Drive the orioles away,

And how clear in the water the nearness of the moon!

Wang Wei

As a symbol of our love.

Everywhere round me the singing of birds --

蒼蒼竹林寺， 杳杳鐘聲晚。

DEER-PARK HERMITAGE

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When she dreamed that she went to Liaoxi Camp

A NIGHT-MOORING ON THE JIANDE RIVER

只在此山中， 雲深不知處。

ONE-HEARTED

See how she tries to hold back her tears.

How beautiful she looks, opening the pearly casement,

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欲得周郎顧， 時時誤拂弦。

A BRIDE

尋隱者不遇

I awake light-hearted this morning of spring,

劉長卿

Washing my hands to make the bridal soup,

向晚意不適， 驅車登古原。

Liu Changqin九-九-藏-書g

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She touches a wrong note now and then.

權德輿

Theres a feeling of snow in the dusk outside --

Peonies are red, but no one comes to see them....

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春怨

I have driven up among the Leyou Tombs

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Liu Changqing

By going up one flight of stairs.

君自故鄉來， 應知故鄉事。

孤舟蓑笠翁， 獨釣寒江雪。

李白

松下問童子， 言師採藥去。

Theres a stir of red in the quiet stove,

五言絕句

美人卷珠簾， 深坐蹙蛾眉。

五言絕句

寥落古行宮， 宮花寂寞紅。

THE EIGHT-SIDED FORTRESS

Was the plum, when you passed my silken window,

And daylight wanes, old memories begin....

Zhang Hu

Wang Wei

A PARTING

晚來天欲雪， 能飲一杯無。

送上人

But now I remember the night, the storm,

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THE SUMMER PALACE

Take home an armful, for my sake,

Jin Changzu

Can drifting clouds and white storks

Beside the changing river, it stands stony as his grief

王維

泠泠七弦上， 靜聽松風寒。

春草明年綠， 王孫歸不歸。

五言絕句

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed --

Wei Yingwu

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張祜

五言絕句

Till now in the dark I close my thatch door....

祖詠

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夕陽無限好， 只是近黃昏。

欲窮千里目， 更上一層樓。

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裴迪

終南陰嶺秀， 積雪浮雲端。

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Are glimmering on a golden-fretted harp --

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Now, nearing my village, meeting people,

A FAREWELL TO CUI

五言絕句

新嫁娘

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All their music from the trees....

莫買沃洲山， 時人已知處。

李白

功蓋三分國， 名成八陣圖。

紅豆生南國， 春來發幾枝。

Yuan Zhen

247

五言絕句

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孟浩然

返景入深林， 復照青苔上。

When I questioned your pupil, under a pine-tree,

To join him there, they wakened her

Shines back to me from the green moss.

"My teacher," he answered, " went for herbs,

五言絕句

近鄉情更怯， 不敢問來人。

Remember the fisherman from Wuling

移舟泊煙渚， 日暮客愁新。

But toward which corner of the mountain,

五言絕句

Or you still live on Wuzhou Mountain,

A SPRING SIGH

韋應物

A hundred mountains and no bird,

綠螘新醅酒， 紅泥小火爐。

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I dare not ask a single question.

孤雲將野鶴， 豈向人間住。

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舉頭望明月， 低頭思故鄉。

And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.

Jia Dao

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Du Fu

Yet ask her for this song and, with the first few words of it,

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北斗七星高， 哥舒夜帶刀。

How wide the world was, how close the trees to heaven,

獨坐幽篁里， 彈琴復長嘯。

I hear a mountain pine-cone fall....

送別

A SUGGESTION TO MY FRIEND LIU

Quan Deyu

230

三日入廚下， 洗手作羹湯。

相思

While my little boat moves on its mooring of mist,

Meng Haoran

233

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啼時驚妾夢， 不得到遼西。

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雜詩

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You also seem to be awake.

Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.

She has lived here a thousand miles from her home-

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With its white top over floating clouds --

哥舒歌

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劉長卿

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李頻

A thousand paths without a footprint;

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竹里館

白頭宮女在， 閑坐說玄宗。

Be tenants in this world of ours? --

空山不見人， 但聞人語響。

Zu Young

未諳姑食性， 先遣小姑嘗。

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渡漢江

但見淚痕濕， 不知心恨誰。

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莫學武陵人， 暫游桃源里。

彈琴

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Li Bai

See how Zhongnan Mountain soars

SHE SINGS AN OLD SONG

While the town in the valley grows colder and colder.

Wang Zhihuan

打起黃鶯兒， 莫教枝上啼。

李商隱

And a warm sky opening at the snow-line

Bai Juyi

When those red berries come in springtime,

鉛華不可棄， 莫是□砧歸。

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懷君屬秋夜， 散步詠涼天。

五言絕句

You may see the tears now, bright on her cheek,

But my husbands young sister shall have the fiat taste.

I am playing my lute and humming a song

With twilight shadows in my heart

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Grasses return again green in the spring,

THE JADE DRESSING-TABLE

How can I tell, through all these clouds ?"

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五言絕句

王維

IN THE QUIET NIGHT

On the third day, taking my place to cook,

杜甫

鳴箏金粟柱， 素手玉房前。

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Though you think to return to this maze of mountains,

Wang Jian

林表明霽色， 城中增暮寒。

Li Duan

A SPRING MORNING

This constellation, with its seven high stars,

野曠天低樹， 江清月近人。

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春曉

Singing old beloved songs

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一聲何滿子， 雙淚落君前。

So here are my paints and here are my powders --

And no more barbarians, nor t九_九_藏_書heir horses, nor cattle,

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荷笠帶斜陽， 青山獨歸遠。

That he never conquered the Kingdom of Wu.

A NOTE LEFT FOR AN ABSENT ECLUSE

王之渙

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Liu Changqing

GENERAL GE SHU

Thinking of you, singing my poem,

江流石不轉， 遺恨失吞吳。

白居易

ON HEARING A LUTE-PLAYER

秋夜寄邱員外

床前明月光， 疑是地上霜。

Is Ge Shu lifting his sword in the night:

The Eight-Sided Fortress is founded on his fame;

But you widen your view three hundred miles

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Debating the pomps of Emperor Xuanzong.

八陣圖

Li Shangyin

五言絕句

王建

Farther and farther down the green mountain.

What about a cup of wine inside?

聽箏

Except my comrade, the bright moon.

While the hat of a pilgrim carries the sunset

春眠不覺曉， 處處聞啼鳥。

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You who have come from my old country,

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孟浩然

登樂游原

嶺外音書絕， 經冬復立春。

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Wang Wei

Her hands of white jade by a window of snow

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劉長卿

歸山深淺去， 須盡丘壑美。

Opening its first cold blossom?

五言絕句

Away from home, I was longing for news

五言絕句

Too softly for anyone to hear --

ON PARTING WITH THE BUDDHIST PILGRIM LING CHE

In the faded old imperial palace,

An old man fishing in the cold river-snow.

The Three Kingdoms, divided, have been bound by his greatness.

Who had only a day in the Peach-Blossom Country.

王維

五言絕句

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Could there have been a frost already?

何滿子

Wang Wei