Poetry
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Li Bai – The River Merchant’s Wife
While my hair was still cut straight across my foreheadI played about the front gate, pulling flowers.You came by on…
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Li Bai – The Roosting Crows
On Soochow’s terrace the crows find their nests.The King of Wu in his palace drinks with Hsi Shih.Songs of Wu,…
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Li Bai – Thoughts in a Tranquil Night
Athwart the bedI watch the moonbeams cast a trailSo bright, so cold, so frail,That for a space it gleamsLike hoar-frost…
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Li Bai – Three With the Moon and His Shadow
With a jar of wine I sit by the flowering trees.I drink alone, and where are my friends?Ah, the moon…
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Li Bai – Through the YangZi Gorges
From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawnTo Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles,Yet monkeys are still…
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Li Bai – To His Two Children
In the land of Wu the mulberry leaves are green,And thrice the silkworms have gone to sleep.In East Luh where…
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Li Bai – To My Wife on Lu-shan Mountain
Visiting the nun Rise-In-Air,You must be near her place in those blue hills.The river’s force helps pound the mica,The wind…
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Li Bai – To Tan-Ch’iu
My friend is lodging high in the Eastern Range,Dearly loving the beauty of valleys and hills.At green Spring he lies…
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Li Bai – To Tu Fu from Shantung
You ask how I spend my time–I nestle against a treetrunkand listen to autumn windsin the pines all night and…
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Li Bai – To Wang Lun
I was about to sail away in a junk,When suddenly I heardThe sound of stamping and singing on the bankâIt…
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