618–907
Tang Dynasty — Page 4
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Tang Dynasty — page 4 of 8.
Poems in this hub
Du Fu Remembering My Brothers on a Moonlit Night 月夜憶舍弟 A military night closes the roads while the speaker has no reliable news of his scattered brothers. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Wan The Weaving Girl in a Leap Month 閏月七日織女 An intercalary seventh month gives Wang Wan a playful hope that the Weaving Girl may cross the sky twice in one year. Wang Wan Answering Director He’s Moonlit Drinking Poem 奉和賀監林月清酌 Moonlight enters a freshly cleared grove and breaks into reflections at a literary gathering in Wang Wan’s responsive poem. Du Mu Autumn Evening 秋夕 A small fan, fireflies, and distant stars fill a cold palace evening. Read how quiet gestures suggest longing without giving the watcher a spoken complaint. Du Fu Climbing High 登高 An immense autumn river view is set against illness, age, and the narrowing life of a traveler. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Du Fu Climbing Yueyang Tower 登岳陽樓 A long-imagined view of Dongting Lake opens onto immense water and unresolved human distress. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Changling Farewell at Hibiscus Tower: A Heart of Ice 芙蓉樓送辛漸二首（其一） Wang Changling’s Hibiscus Tower farewell in Chinese and English, with pinyin and notes on the dawn departure, a message to Luoyang, and the heart of ice in jade. Du Mu Spring South of the River 江南春 Orioles, blossoms, wine flags, and temples spread across Jiangnan. Follow the shift from a bright spring panorama to buildings half hidden by rain. Wang Changling Farewell at Hibiscus Tower: The River at Night 芙蓉樓送辛漸二首（其二） Clouds surround Danyang, and wine cannot dissolve a farewell in the second of Wang Changling’s Hibiscus Tower quatrains. Du Fu News That the Imperial Army Has Recovered the North 聞官軍收河南河北 News of military recovery turns tears into a rush of plans for the journey home. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Du Mu Red Cliff 赤壁 A broken weapon prompts an imagined alternative to a famous battle. See how wind, political power, and two women's possible fate become one sharp question. Wang Changling Beyond the Frontier: The Old Pass 出塞二首（其一） Qin moonlight and a Han pass compress centuries of unfinished return in Wang Changling’s frontier quatrain. Li Shangyin Night Rain: Sent North 夜雨寄北 Li Shangyin’s Night Rain Sent North, with Chinese text, pinyin, and English notes tracing return-date uncertainty into a hoped-for candlelit conversation. Du Fu Thoughts on a Traveling Night 旅夜書懷 A tall mast under immense stars gives way to the image of a single gull between heaven and earth. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Wei A Farewell: Returning to the Mountains 送別 A parting drink and a few questions give way to the endless clouds of a chosen retreat. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Changling Beyond the Frontier: After the Battle 出塞二首（其二） A newly mounted horse, continuing drums, and an unwashed blade hold Wang Changling’s frontier scene just after combat. Li Shangyin Leyou Plain 樂遊原 An evening drive brings the speaker to an open plain and a setting sun. Explore the tension between the scene's beauty and the approach of night. Li Shangyin Chang’e 嫦娥 A candle fades as the morning stars recede. Read how an earthbound sleepless night opens into the imagined solitude of Chang'e in the moon. Wang Changling Gathering Lotus 采蓮曲二首（其二） Green skirts disappear into lotus leaves until a song reveals the people in Wang Changling’s second lotus-gathering song. Du Fu Seeking Flowers Alone by the River: VI 江畔獨步尋花七絕句·其六 A flower-heavy path becomes a place of lingering butterflies and repeated birdsong. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Changling Army Song: The Watchtower at Dusk 從軍行七首（其一） A dusk climb and a familiar flute tune connect a frontier watchtower to a distant woman's chamber in Wang Changling’s first army song. Li Shangyin Frost and Moon 霜月 An autumn night becomes a contest between frost and moonlight. Follow the poem's transformation of cold brightness into a meeting of celestial women. Du Fu Meeting Li Guinian in Jiangnan 江南逢李龜年 A musician met again among falling blossoms brings earlier halls and audiences back into view. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Changling Army Song: New Music, Old Parting 從軍行七首（其二） New pipa music cannot exhaust an old feeling of separation, and Wang Changling ends the song beneath a high autumn moon.