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Liu Zongyuan Parting from My Younger Brother Zongyi 別舍弟宗一 Two brothers separate after years of displacement. Follow the immense distances, southern rivers, and imagined dreams that give their farewell its weight. Meng Haoran Viewing Dongting Lake, for Chancellor Zhang 望洞庭湖贈張丞相 The vast lake becomes an indirect request for a way into public service. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Zhang Xu Boating on Clear Stream 清谿泛舟 A weary traveler reaches toward moonlight on a stream in Zhang Xu’s brief poem of an unexpectedly abundant evening. Meng Haoran Climbing Mount Xian with Friends 與諸子登峴山 Visitors to Mount Xian read an old memorial and feel themselves entering the landscape’s succession of generations. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Du Mu Qingming 清明 Rain weighs on a traveler at Qingming until a question brings a distant gesture. Read how weather, distress, and a herdboy's answer shape four lines. Du Mu A Mountain Walk 山行 A traveler stops on a mountain road to admire autumn maples. Follow the choice to pause and the bold comparison between frost-red leaves and spring flowers. Wang Wan Mooring below North Solid Hill 次北固山下 Wang Wan’s boat reaches a river landscape where daylight and spring arrive before night and the old year have quite ended. Meng Haoran Thoughts on the River in Early Cold 早寒江上有懷 Falling leaves and migrating geese sharpen a traveler’s longing, but the river crossing remains uncertain. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Du Mu Mooring on the Qinhuai 泊秦淮 A night mooring near a wine house brings an old court song across the water. Hear how present pleasure becomes entangled with a fallen dynasty. 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.