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04 February 2014
孟浩然 Meng Haoran: 宿建德江 Sojourn on the River at Jiande
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This is a 20-character quatrain (four 5-character lines) by the Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran. I have been unable to compress my English...
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13 January 2014
太上隱者 Taishang Yinzhe (Supreme Hermit): 答人 In Reply to Someone
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Here is a beautiful quatrain by an anonymous Tang dynasty poet whose identity is a complete mystery, true to the name "Supreme Hermit...
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02 December 2013
李商隱 Li Shangyin: 夜雨寄北(內) Written on a Rainy Night - A Letter to the North (My Wife)
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FINAL POLISHED RENDITION (August 2020): 李商隱: 夜雨寄北 Li Shangyin (813-858): Written on a Rainy Night: A Letter Sent North 君問歸期...
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01 November 2013
王維 Wang Wei: 送別 (山中相送罷) Farewell (Here in the hills, I bade you farewell)
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POSTSCRIPT (26 April 2018): I have polished my rendition as follows: Here in the hills, I bade you farewell; Now by dusk I close my tw...
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03 October 2013
李煜 Li Yu: 虞美人 Yu Meiren (Lady Yu, the Royal Beauty/Concubine)
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Li Yu (937-978): Yu Meiren (Lady Yu, the Royal Beauty/Concubine) 1 Spring flowers and autumn moon, O when will all these end? 2 ...
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02 September 2013
崔顥 Cui Hao: 長干曲 4首 其1 其2 Song of Chang'gan 1 and 2 of 4
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Following my August post of a Chinese love poem of the 13th century, I am posting today 2 more Chinese love poems of the 8th century by the...
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07 August 2013
管道昇 Guan Daosheng: 我儂詞 Song of Me and You/ Clay Figures
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This is a love poem purportedly written by a lady painter named 管道昇 Guan Daosheng (Kuan Tao-Sheng) wife of the famed calligraphist 趙孟頫 Z...
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02 July 2013
王之渙 Wang Zhihuan: 涼州詞/ 出塞 Song of Liangzhou/ Out to the Frontier
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Looking through my old files, I found this 7-character quatrain by Wang Zhihuan which I translated in early 2009 and which I now wish to sh...
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