Poetry
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Li Bai – Song of the Forge
The forge-fire sets a glow in the heavens,the hammer thunders, showering the smoke with sparks. A ruddy smithy, the white…
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Li Bai – Song Of The Jade Cup
A jade cup was broken because old age cametoo soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinkingthree cups of wine…
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Li Bai – Spring Night in Lo-yang Hearing a Flute
In what house, the jade flute that sends these dark notes drifting,scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang?Tonight if…
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Li Bai – Summer in the Mountains
Gently I stir a white feather fan,With open shirt sitting in a green wood.I take off my cap and hang…
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Li Bai – Taking Leave of a Friend
Blue mountains lie beyond the north wall;Round the city’s eastern side flows the white water.Here we part, friend, once forever.You…
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Li Bai – The Cold Clear Spring At Nanyang
A pity it is evening, yetI do love the water of this springseeing how clear it is, how clean;rays of…
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Li Bai – The Exile’s Letter
(To Yüan)Remember how Tung built us a place to drink inAt Lo-yang south of the T’ien-ching bridge?White jade and gold…
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Li Bai – The Moon At The Fortified Pass
The bright moon lifts from the Mountain of HeavenIn an infinite haze of cloud and sea,And the wind, that has…
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Li Bai – The Old Dust
The living is a passing traveler;The dead, a man come home.One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth,Then, alas! we are…
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Li Bai – The River-Captain’s Wife: A Letter
I with my hair in its first fringeRomped outside breaking flower-heads.You galloped by on bamboo horses.We juggled green plums round…
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