Literature
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Li Bai – Visiting A Taoist On Tiatien Mountain
Amongst bubbling streamsa dog barks; peach blossomis heavy with dew; hereand there a deer canbe seen in forest glades!No sound…
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Li Bai – Waking from Drunken Sleep on a Spring Day
Life is a dream. No need to stir.Remembering this I’m drunk all day.Lying helpless beside the porch,Waking to see the…
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Li Bai – Waterfall at Lu-shan
Hiroshige, The moon over a waterfall, 1800sSunlight streams on the river stones.From high above, the river steadily plunges– three thousand…
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Li Bai – We Fought for – South of the Walls
Died for – North of the Rampart – (to an old tune) We fought for Mulberry SpringsDie now for Garlic…
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Li Bai – Wine
Drinking, I sit,Lost to Night,Keep falling petalsFrom the ground:Get up to followThe stream’s white moon,No sign of birds,The humans gone.…
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Li Bai – Yearning
Misted the flowers weep as light diesMoon of white silk sleeplessly cries.Stilled – Phoenix wings.Touched – Mandarin strings. This song…
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Li Bai – Ziyi Song
Chang-an — one slip of moon;in ten thousand houses, the sound of fulling mallets.Autumn winds keep on blowing,all things make…
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Stacy Aumonier – Where Was Wych Street?
In the public bar of the Wagtail, in Wapping, four men and a woman were drinking beer and discussing diseases.…
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Stacy Aumonier – A Source of Irritation
TO look at old Sam Gates you would never sus- pect him of having nei-ves. His sixty-nine years of close…
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Gertrude Atherton – Death and the Woman
Her husband was dying, and she was alone with him. Nothing could exceed the desolation of her surroundings. She and…
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