The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable,
And nowhere to complain — I've gone half crazy.
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Oxen and sheep were brought back down
Long ago, and bramble gates closed. Over
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Above the tower -- a lone, twice-sized moon.
On the cold river passing night-filled homes,
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A slight rain comes, bathed in dawn light.
I hear it among treetop leaves before mist
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Evening colors linger on mountain paths. Out beyond this study perched over River Gate,
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Roads not yet glistening, rain slight,
Broken clouds darken after thinning away.
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As bamboo chill drifts into the bedroom,
Moonlight fills every corner of our
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A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.
Two gulls drift slowly up the river.
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I remember fleeing the rebels
through dangerous northern canyons,
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The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on a day in spring. In the
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In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches
are like green bronze; its roots like rocks; around its
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Wagons rattling and banging,
horses neighing and snorting,
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We have come far together, but here we must part;
the green hills vainly echo my feelings.
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On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence of Yuan Ch`ih, Lieutenant-Gover
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How is one to describe this king of mountains? Throught the whole of Ch'i and Lu one never loses sight of its greenness. In it the Cr
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Evening falls on palace walls shaded by flowering trees, with cry of birds flying past on their way to roost. The stars quiver as the
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Here at the world's end the cold winds are beginning to blow. What messages have you for me, my master? When will the poor wandering
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Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and Shang constellations, one of which rises as the other on
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zhu men jiu rou chou
lu you dong si gu
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Alone, the wild goose refuses food and drink,
his calls searching for the flock.
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Boys in fancy clothes never starve,
but Confucian scholars often find their lives in ruin.
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I was stubborn by nature and addicted to perfect lines,
fought to the death to find words that startle.
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Li Bai, no sight of you for a long time,
It's tragic that you pretend to be insane.
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News comes to Jianwai1 that Jibei has been recovered
and tears wet my garments when I hear the news.
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Jade frost bites the maple trees
and Wu Mountain and Wu Gorge breathe out dark fear
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Drums on the watch-tower have emptied the roads -
At the frontier it's autumn; a wild-goose cries.
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Your achievements overshadowed
any in the Three Kingdoms;
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Through flocks of mountains, myriad valleys,
I arrive in Jingmen,
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Zhu-ge's great name
hangs over the whole world;
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Often a man's life is such
that he seldom sees his friends,
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