On Seeing a Pupil of Kung-sun Dance the Chien-ch`i (Tu Fu Poems)
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
Tu Fu Poems (18 Poems)
Spring Night in the Imperial Chancellery (Tu Fu Poem)
Evening falls on palace walls shaded by flowering trees, with cry of birds flying past on their way to roost. ...
Thoughts of Li Po from the World’s End (Tu Fu Poems)
Here at the world's end the cold winds are beginning to blow. What messages have you for me, my master? ...
To the Recluse, Wei Pa (Tu Fu Poem)
Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and Shang constellations, one of ...
Moonlit Night (Tu Fu Poem)
Tonight at Fu-chou, this moon she watches Alone in our room. And my little, far-off Children, too young to understand ...
Morning Rain (Tu Fu Poem)
A slight rain comes, bathed in dawn light. I hear it among treetop leaves before mist Arrives. Soon it sprinkles ...
Overnight at the Riverside Tower (Tu Fu Poem)
Evening colors linger on mountain paths. Out beyond this study perched over River Gate, At the cliff's edge, frail clouds ...
Rain (Tu Fu Poem)
Roads not yet glistening, rain slight, Broken clouds darken after thinning away. Where they drift, purple cliffs blacken. And beyond ...
Restless Night (Tu Fu Poem)
As bamboo chill drifts into the bedroom, Moonlight fills every corner of our Garden. Heavy dew beads and trickles. Stars ...
Day’s End (Tu Fu Poems)
Oxen and sheep were brought back down Long ago, and bramble gates closed. Over Mountains and rivers, far from my ...
Dreaming of Li Po (Tu Fu Poem)
After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief, but the separation of the living is an ...
Full Moon (Tu Fu Poem)
Above the tower -- a lone, twice-sized moon. On the cold river passing night-filled homes, It scatters restless gold across ...
Gazing at the Sacred Peak (Tu Fu Poem)
For all this, what is the mountain god like? An unending green of lands north and south: From ethereal beauty ...
On a Prospect of T’ai-shan (Tu Fu Poems)
How is one to describe this king of mountains? Throught the whole of Ch'i and Lu one never loses sight ...
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Tu Fu Poem)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
Ballad of the Army Carts (Tu Fu Poem)
The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each with a bow and arrows at his ...
Ballad of the Old Cypress (Tu Fu Poem)
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches are like green bronze; its ...
By the Lake (Tu Fu Poem)
The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on ...