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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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Li Bai – Under the Moon
Under the crescent moon’s faint glowThe washerman’s bat resounds afar,And the autumn breeze sighs tenderly.But my heart has gone to…
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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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