Eating Bamboo Shoots (Bai Juyi Poems)
My new province is a land of bamboo-groves:Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills.The mountain woodman cuts an ...
Bai JuYi Poems (59 Poems)
A Lament for my Son, Ts’ui (Bai Juyi Poems)
You were a pearlIn the palm of my hand,My tiny baby boy.Why is it that I,A white-haired man of three-score ...
Kept Waiting! (Bai Juyi Poems)
White billows and huge waves block the river crossing;Wherever I go, danger and difficulty; whatever I do, failure.Just as in ...
Rain On Autumn Night (Bai Juyi Poems)
Cold, cold this third night of autumnRain makes me sleepyAlone, this old man is contented and idleIt's late when I ...
Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away (Bai Juyi Poems)
We share all these disappointments of failingautumn a thousand miles apart. This is whereautumn wind easily plunders courtyard trees,but the ...
Enjoying Pine and Bamboo (Bai Juyi Poems)
I treasure what front eaves faceand all that north windows frame.Bamboo winds lavish out windows,pine colors exquisite beyond eaves,I gather ...
A Foresaken Garden (Bai Juyi Poems)
I enter the courtThrough the middle gate-And my sleeve is wet with tears.The flowers still growIn the courtyard,Though two springs ...
After Lunch (Bai Juyi Poems)
After eating lunch, I feel so sleepy.Waking later, I sip two bowls of tea,then notice shadows aslant, the sunalready low ...
Grasses (Bai Juyi Poems)
Boundless grasses over the plainCome and go with every season;Wildfire never quite consumes them --They are tall once more in ...
Flower No Flower (Bai Juyi Poems)
Flower no flowermist no mistarrives at midnightand leaves at dawnarrives like a spring dream - how many timesleaves like a ...
Song of Unending Sorrow. (Bai JuYi Poems)
China's Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire, Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, Till ...
Song of the Guitar. (Bai JuYi Poems)
In the tenth year of Yuanhe I was banished and demoted to be assistant official in Jiujiang. In the summer ...
The Old Man with the Broken Arm (Bai JuYi Poems)
At Hsin-f?ng-an old man-four-score and eight;The hair on his head and the hair of his eyebrows-white as the new snow.Leaning ...
The Dwarfs of Tao-Chou (Bai JuYi Poems)
In the land of Tao-chouMany of the people are dwarfs;The tallest of them never grow to more than three feet.They ...
The Dragon of the Black Pool (Bai JuYi Poems)
Deep the waters of the Black Pool, colored like ink;They say a Holy Dragon lives there, whom men have never ...
Staying at Bamboo Lodge (Bai JuYi Poems)
an evening sitting under the eaves of the pinesat night sleeping in ...
Remembering Golden Bells (Bai JuYi Poems)
Ruined and ill-a man of two score;Pretty and guileless-a girl of three.Not a boy-but still better than nothing:To soothe one's ...
The Grain Tribute (Bai JuYi Poems)
There came an officer knocking by night at my doorIn a loud voice demanding grain-tribute.My house-servants dared not wait till ...
Lazy Man’s Song (Bai JuYi Poems)
I could have a job, but am too lazy to choose it;I have got land, but am too lazy to ...
To My Brothers & Sisters Adrift in Troubled Times This Poem of the Moon. (Bai JuYi Poems)
Since the disorders in Henan and the famine in Guannei, my brothers and sisters have been scattered. Looking at the ...
Autumn Cold (Bai JuYi Poems)
here's my snowy crown time's tinted decrepitudethere's the frost in the courtyard ...
A Lament for my Son Ts’ui (Bai JuYi Poems)
You were a pearlIn the palm of my hand,My tiny baby boy. Why is it that I,A white-haired man of ...
Golden Bells (Bai JuYi Poems)
When I was almost fortyI had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells.Now it is just a year since she ...
Kept Waiting (Bai JuYi Poems)
White billows and huge waves block the river crossing;Wherever I go, danger and difficulty; whatever I do, failure.Just as in ...
Spring Visit to Chien-Tang Lake (Bai JuYi Poems)
North of Solitary Mountain Templeand west of Chia Pavilionthe water's surface is flattenedby the wet feet of clouds.Early warblers dart ...
A Visit to Qiantang Lake in Spring (Bai JuYi Poems)
Gushan Temple is to the north, Jiating pavilion west,The water's surface now is calm, the bottom of the clouds low.In ...
Night on the West River (Bai JuYi Poems)
No moonTo light my way upon the stair,Cold comfortIn the wine I drink alone. Black clouds,Rain,The hurried flight of birds,Water ...
Sleeping on a Night of Autumn Rain (Bai JuYi Poems)
It's cold this night in autumn's third month,Peacefully within, a lone old man.He lies down late, the lamp already gone ...
A Forsaken Garden (Bai JuYi Poems)
I enter the courtThrough the middle gate-And my sleeve is wet with tears. The flowers still growIn the courtyard,Though two ...
The Almond Blossoms of Chao Village (Bai JuYi Poems)
For fifteen long years,Times without numberI have comeTo see the red almond-blossomsOpen in the spring. Now I am growing old-I ...