The Exile’s Letter (Li Po Poems)
(To Y(Li Po)
(To Y(Li Po)
I. Among the flowers a drink of wine. I sit alone without a friend. So I invite the moon, Then see my shadow, make ...
Died for - North of the Ramparts'(to an old tune) We fought for Mulberry Springs Die now for Garlic River. Wash our swords ...
My hair had hardly covered my forehead.I was picking flowers, paying by my door,When you, my lover, on a bamboo ...
I climbed west on Incense Cloud Peak. South I saw the spray-filled falls Dropping for ten thousand feet Sounding in a hundred gorges, Suddenly ...
At evening I make it down the mountain. Keeping company with the moon. Looking back I see the paths I've taken Blue now, ...
Jade carved dishes - food costing more. I throw the chopsticks down, Food and wine are tasteless. Draw my magic sword, Mind confused stare ...
Life is a dream. No need to stir. Remembering this I'm drunk all day. Lying helpless beside the porch, Waking to see the ...
Did Chuang Chou dream he was the butterfly? Or the butterfly dream he was Chuang Chou? In the single body's transformations See the ...
Since yesterday had to throw me and bolt,Today has hurt my heart even more.The autumn wild geese have a long ...
Drinking, I sit, Lost to Night, Keep falling petals From the ground: Get up to follow The stream's white moon, No sign of birds, The humans gone. ...
On Soochow's terrace the crows find their nests. The King of Wu in his palace drinks with Hsi Shih. Songs of Wu, ...
I climb up high and look on the four seas,Heaven and earth spreading out so far.Frost blankets all the stuff ...
My friend lives high on East Mountain. His nature is to love the hills and gorges. In green spring he sleeps in ...
Misted the flowers weep as light diesMoon of white silk sleeplessly cries.Stilled - Phoenix wings.Touched - Mandarin strings.This song tells ...
When we met the first time at Ch'ang-an He called me the 'Lost Immortal'. Then he loved the Way of Forgetting. Now under ...
Peach-tree flowers over rising waters.White drowned stones, then free again.Wistaria-blossom on quivering branches.Clear blue sky. The waxing moon.How many tight-coiled ...
The lovely Lo Fo of the western landPlucks mulberry leaves by the waterside.Across the green boughs stretches out her white ...
A slip of the moon hangs over the capital;Ten thousand washing-mallets are pounding;And the autumn wind is blowing my heartFor ...
On Mirror Lake outspread for miles and miles,The lotus lilies in full blossom teem.In fifth moon Xi Shi gathers them ...
The courier will depart next day, she's told.She sews a warrior's gown all night.Her fingers feel the needle cold.How can ...
Visiting the nun Rise-In-Air,You must be near her place in those blue hills.The river's force helps pound the mica,The wind ...
The autumn air is clear,The autumn moon is bright.Fallen leaves gather and scatter,The jackdaw perches and starts anew.We think of ...
Facing my wine, I did not see the dusk,Falling blossoms have filled the folds of my clothes.Drunk, I rise and ...
Wine-maker there by Yellow Fountains,'Eternal Spring' that's still your vintage.Without Li Po on Night's TerraceWho can there be to bring ...
You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is ...
"Bathed in fragrance, do not brush your hat; Washed in perfume, do not shake your coat: "Knowing the world fears ...
Where crowns a purple haze Ashimmer in sunlight rays The hill called Incense-Burner Peak, from far To see, hung o'er ...
We climbed Yoyang Tower with all the scene around coming into vision; looking up the Great River seeing boats turn ...
Sunlight streams on the river stones. From high above, the river steadily plunges-- three thousand feet of sparkling water-- the ...
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