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Poetry

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

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

Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

William Shakespeare · English Renaissance · sonnet

A meditation on memory as a legal reckoning in which old losses are counted again and friendship restores what grief consumed.

十四行诗第三十首:当静思开庭

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