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Mooring on the Qinhuai

杜牧 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

Mist wraps the cold water, moonlight wraps the sand; at night I moor on the Qinhuai, close by the wine houses. The singing women do not know the grief of a fallen state; across the water they are still singing 'Flowers of the Rear Courtyard.'

泊秦淮

Poetry

Blackrobe Lane

刘禹锡 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

By Vermilion Bird Bridge, wild grasses are in flower; at the mouth of Blackrobe Lane the evening sun slants. The swallows that once nested before the halls of Wang and Xie now fly into the houses of ordinary people.

乌衣巷

Poetry

On the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, Remembering My Brothers

王维 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

Alone in another region, a stranger there, at every festival I think of my kin twice as much. From far off I know my brothers are on the heights, and where all wear dogwood, one man is missing.

九月九日忆山东兄弟

Poetry

Written on Coming Home

贺知章 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

I left home young and come back old; my home accent unchanged, the hair at my temples thinned. The children see me and do not know me; laughing, they ask where the guest has come from.

回乡偶书

Poetry

Hearing a Flute by Night on the Shouxiang Wall

李益 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

Before Huile Peak the sand is like snow; beyond the Shouxiang wall the moon is like frost. No one knows where a reed pipe is being blown— all night the campaigning men gaze toward home.

夜上受降城闻笛

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