Literature
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Long Yearning (Sent Far) by Li Bai
When the beautiful woman was here, the hall was filled with flowers,Now the beautiful woman’s gone, the bed is lying…
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Looking For A Monk And Not Finding Him by Li Bai
I took a small path leadingup a hill valley, finding therea temple, its gate coveredwith moss, and in front ofthe…
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Lu Mountain, Kiangsi by Li Bai
I climbed west on Incense Cloud Peak.South I saw the spray-filled fallsDropping for ten thousand feetSounding in a hundred gorges,Suddenly…
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Marble Stairs Grievance by Li Bai
On Marble Stairsstill grows the white dewThat has all nightsoaked her silk slippers, But she lets downher crystal blind nowAnd…
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Moon over Mountain Pass by Li Bai
A bright moon rising above Tian Shan Mountain,Lost in a vast ocean of clouds.The long wind, across thousands upon thousands…
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Mountain Drinking Song by Li Bai
To drown the ancient sorrows,we drank a hundred jugs of winethere in the beautiful night.We couldn’t go to bed with…
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Nefarious War by Li Bai
Last year we fought by the head-stream of the Sang-kan,This year we are fighting on the Tsung-ho road.We have washed…
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Old Poem by Li Bai
Did Chuang Chou dream he was the butterfly?Or the butterfly dream he was Chuang Chou?In the single body’s transformationsSee the…
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On A Picture Screen by Li Bai
Whence these twelve peaks of Wu-shan!Have they flown into the gorgeous screenFrom heaven’s one corner?Ah, those lonely pines murmuring in…
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On Climbing in Nan-king to the Terrace of Phoenixes by Li Bai
Phoenixes that play here once, so that the place was named for them,Have abandoned it now to this desolated river;The…
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