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Cen Shen In the Stony Desert 磧中作 Two full moons measure Cen Shen’s westward journey, but the desert gives no answer to where he will sleep tonight. Wang Wei Magnolia Hollow 辛夷塢 Magnolia blossoms open and fall in a ravine without an audience. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Wei In the Mountains 山中 A rainless mountain path seems to wet the traveler through the density of its green. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wen Tingyun Nan Ge Zi: A Golden Parrot in Her Hand 南歌子·手裏金鸚鵡 Bird ornaments become a playful wish for companionship. Follow this short lyric from hands and clothing to an imagined pair of mandarin ducks. Cen Shen Spring at the Mountain Room: Open to the Season 山房春事二首（其一） Bees, butterflies, willow branches, and falling blossoms cross into Cen Shen’s room on a warm spring day. Wang Wei A Question about the Plum Tree 雜詩三首·其二 All the news of home narrows to one question about blossoms beside a window. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wen Tingyun Crossing the Watershed 過分水嶺 A stream has accompanied a traveler for three days through the mountains. Read how its sound through the night becomes a voice at their parting. Cen Shen Spring at the Mountain Room: Liang Garden 山房春事二首（其二） Cen Shen’s trees repeat their flowering in Liang Garden without knowing that the people are gone, in a text with a consequential variant. Wang Wei Autumn Night Song 秋夜曲 A musician keeps playing in the cold because returning to an empty room is harder. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Cen Shen The Ninth Day on Campaign 行軍九日思長安故園 An absent festival cup leads Cen Shen to imagine chrysanthemums blooming beside a battlefield at home in Chang’an. Wei Yingwu The West Stream at Chuzhou 滁州西澗 Wei Yingwu’s West Stream at Chuzhou, with pinyin and English notes on secluded grass, a hidden oriole, swift spring water, and an unattended ferry boat. Wang Wei Autumn Evening in the Mountains 山居秋暝 Wang Wei’s Autumn Evening in the Mountains, with pinyin and English notes on moonlight, washing women, a fishing boat, and reasons to remain after spring. Wei Yingwu On an Autumn Night, Sent to Qiu 秋夜寄邱員外 A solitary autumn walk becomes an imagined visit to a distant friend. Read how falling pinecones connect two unseen people through one quiet night. Cen Shen Sunset in the Heyan Desert 日沒賀延磧作 Seeing both sunrise and sunset from the same sand makes Cen Shen question the distant pursuit of achievement and fame. Wei Yingwu A Dewdrop 詠露珠 A dewdrop rests on an autumn lotus like a jewel on a jade plate. Watch how the drop's movement reveals its shape in this miniature study of attention. Wang Wei An Envoy at the Frontier 使至塞上 An envoy’s sparse journey opens into a desert marked by one straight smoke trail and a round setting sun. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Cen Shen Sending Liu West from Wuwei 武威送劉判官赴磧西行軍 Heat, a swift horse, and a horn sounding into dawn give Cen Shen’s farewell to Adjutant Liu its compressed military energy. Wang Wei A Retreat at Zhongnan 終南別業 A walk reaches the end of a stream, becomes cloud-watching, and ends in unhurried conversation. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wei Yingwu Amber 詠琥珀 Amber preserves the imagined history of an ancient pine. Read a miniature poem that joins changing matter, hidden life, and the survival of small traces. Cen Shen Joking with the Huamen Wine Seller 戲問花門酒家翁 Cen Shen asks an old wine seller whether coin-shaped elm seeds could pay for a drink in this playful spring quatrain. Wei Yingwu Hearing Wild Geese 聞鴈 Rain darkens an autumn night as migrating geese pass overhead. Follow the brief connection between a homesick listener and a familiar distant sound. Li Bai Qiupu Song: White Hair 秋浦歌十七首·其十五 A mirror turns sorrow into an impossible length of white hair. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Cen Shen Sending Cui Back to the Capital 送崔子還京 Cen Shen watches a lone rider return east from the frontier and writes his farewell in September snow. Li Bai For Wang Changling, Demoted to Longbiao 聞王昌齡左遷龍標遙有此寄 An absent friend receives a sorrowful message entrusted to the moon and wind. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation.