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Written on a Rainy Night to the North

李商隐 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

You ask when I will return; no date is set. Night rain in the Ba Mountains swells the autumn pools. When shall we trim a candle together by the western window and speak again of this night of rain in the Ba Mountains?

夜雨寄北

Poetry

Departing Baidi City at Dawn

李白 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

At dawn I leave Baidi amid rose-tinted clouds; a thousand li to Jiangling, returned in a single day. Gibbons call without cease from both banks, while my light boat has already passed ten thousand mountains.

早发白帝城

Poetry

Spring Morning

孟浩然 · Tang dynasty · five-character quatrain

In spring sleep, dawn arrives unnoticed; everywhere, I hear birds calling. Through the night came the sound of wind and rain— how many blossoms must have fallen?

春晓

Poetry

River Snow

柳宗元 · Tang dynasty · five-character quatrain

Across a thousand mountains, no bird is in flight; on ten thousand paths, no human trace remains. In a lone boat, an old man in straw cape and hat fishes alone in the snow on the cold river.

江雪

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Bamboo Lodge

王维 · Tang dynasty · five-character quatrain

Alone I sit deep in the shaded bamboo, playing the zither and then whistling long. Deep in the wood no one knows of it— the bright moon comes and shines on me.

竹里馆

Poetry

Quiet Night Thoughts

李白 · Tang dynasty · five-character quatrain

Moonlight before my bed— I take it for frost upon the ground. I lift my head and gaze at the bright moon; I lower it, thinking of home.

静夜思