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Poetry · five-character quatrainA Question for Liu the Nineteenth
白居易Tang dynastyfive-character quatrain
酒
SOURCE TEXT · 中文原文
绿螘新醅酒，
红泥小火炉。
晚来天欲雪，
能饮一杯无？
lǜ yǐ xīn pēi jiǔ · hóng ní xiǎo huǒ lú · wǎn lái tiān yù xuě · néng yǐn yī bēi wú
English translationA Question for Liu the Nineteenth
New unstrained wine, its froth green as ants;
a small stove of red clay.
Evening comes, the sky is about to snow—
can you drink a cup?