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Poems in this hub
He Zhizhang Ode to the Willow 詠柳 A willow becomes jade and silk before a question reveals spring wind as its imagined craftsperson. Read the original Chinese with pinyin, word meanings, an original English translation, and notes. He Zhizhang Returning Home: I 回鄉偶書二首（其一） A returning traveler keeps his home accent, but a new generation recognizes him only as a visitor. Read the original Chinese with pinyin, word meanings, an original English translation, and notes. Luo Binwang A Farewell by the Yi River 於易水送人 A present farewell recalls Jing Ke’s departure; the people are gone, but the river remains cold. Read the original Chinese with pinyin, word meanings, an original English translation, and notes. Li Bai Leaving White Emperor City at Dawn 早發白帝城 Li Bai’s White Emperor City departure, with pinyin and English notes on the return to Jiangling, continuing gibbon cries, swift passage, and textual variants. Wang Zhihuan On the Stork Tower 登鸛雀樓 Wang Zhihuan’s tower poem turns a sunset and the Yellow River into a desire to see farther, with a note on the transmitted attribution. Liu Yuxi Wuyi Lane 烏衣巷 Swallows return to an old lane, but its great families have vanished. Follow how a familiar bird turns an ordinary street into a scene of historical change. Liu Yuxi Looking at Lake Dongting 望洞庭 Moonlight smooths Lake Dongting into a vast mirror. Read the changing scale as distant landscape becomes a green shell resting on a silver plate. Li Bai Viewing Heaven’s Gate Mountain 望天門山 A river opens a mountain gateway, and a solitary sail approaches from the sun. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Zhihuan Willows at a Farewell 送別 Willow branches along an imperial waterway reveal repeated departures in Wang Zhihuan’s twenty-character farewell. Liu Yuxi Autumn Poem, I 秋詞二首·其一 Liu Yuxi’s first Autumn Poem, with pinyin and English notes on its argument against autumn sadness and the crane that carries poetic feeling upward. Li Bai Laolao Pavilion 勞勞亭 Spring itself seems reluctant to supply willow branches for another farewell. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Zhihuan Liangzhou Song: Beyond the Pass 涼州詞二首（其一） A remote city, a flute tune, and spring stopped at Jade Gate Pass shape the first of Wang Zhihuan’s two Liangzhou songs. Liu Yuxi Bamboo-Branch Song, I 竹枝詞二首·其一 A song drifts across a river under uncertain skies. Discover how a pun on fair weather lets a young speaker wonder whether affection is returned. Wang Zhihuan Liangzhou Song: The Chanyu Looks North 涼州詞二首（其二） The second Liangzhou song stages sacrifice, a request for alliance, and an emperor’s refusal in four compressed lines. Li Bai Song of the Moon over Mount Emei 峨眉山月歌 Moonlight and place-names accompany a journey downstream from the Emei region. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Zhihuan A Song at the Farewell Feast 宴詞 A river boat’s departing rhythm meets an impossible plea about shallow water in Wang Zhihuan’s banquet quatrain. Liu Yuxi Stone City 石頭城 Tides and moonlight revisit a ruined capital. Watch the landscape continue its familiar movements while the city's former power remains absent. Su Shi West Lake in Sunshine and Rain 飲湖上初晴後雨·其二 Su Shi’s West Lake quatrain in Chinese and English, with pinyin and notes on sunshine, misty rain, Xi Shi, and the comparison with light and rich adornment. Wang Zhihuan A Farewell on the Ninth Day 九日送別 A Double Ninth gathering shares chrysanthemum wine before tomorrow’s separation in Wang Zhihuan’s autumn farewell. Su Shi Huichong’s Spring River Scene 惠崇春江晚景·其一 A painted river scene leads beyond visible flowers and ducks to warmth felt in the water. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Han Liangzhou Song: The Luminous Cup 涼州詞二首（其一） Wang Han sets a beautiful wine cup beside the uncertainty of returning from war in the first of his Liangzhou songs. Liu Zongyuan River Snow 江雪 Birds and travelers disappear from a snowy landscape, leaving one fisherman. Read how repeated absences make that solitary figure newly visible. Su Shi To Liu Jingwen 贈劉景文 Withered lotus and chrysanthemums lead to an unexpectedly affirmative view of the year’s late colors. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Han Liangzhou Song: Remembering Chang’an 涼州詞二首（其二） Flowers should already be fading near the capital, while a frontier listener remains in cold sand and hears a willow tune.