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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

A Liangzhou Song

王翰 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

Fine grape wine in a cup that shines at night; just as we would drink, the pipa on horseback urges us. If I lie drunk on the battlefield, do not laugh at me— how many, since ancient times, have come back from war?

凉州词

Poetry

Out Beyond the Passes

王昌龄 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

The bright moon of Qin, the frontier pass of Han; from the march of ten thousand li the men have not returned. If only the Flying General of Longcheng were here, he would not let the Hu horses cross the Yin Mountains.

出塞

Poetry

Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold

William Shakespeare · English Renaissance · sonnet

A meditation on ageing through late autumn, twilight, and dying fire, ending with love intensified by approaching loss.

十四行诗第七十三首:你在我身上看见暮秋

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

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

The West Brook at Chuzhou

韦应物 · Tang dynasty · seven-character quatrain

What I love most is the quiet grass growing by the brook, with an oriole calling above it, deep in the trees. The spring tide, bringing rain, runs fast toward evening; at the wild crossing no one is there, and the boat lies athwart of itself.

滁州西涧

Poetry

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