About the electronic version
Tang Shi San Bai Shou
300 Tang Poems
Heng-t'ang-t'ui-Shih, 618-907
Creation of machine-readable version: Xuezhi Guo. Chung-ming Lung.
Conversion to TEI.P3-conformant markup: University of Virginia Electronic Text Center. University of Virginia Alderman Library Humanities Services.
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1997 The Chinese version of this Tang Shi is edited by UVa based on Mr. Wei-chang Shan's electronic version. English translations are primarily from Witter Bynner's Jade mountain. Translations of poems 001, 003, 039, 040, 042, 083 and 084 are from 300 Tang Poems of Commercial Press. Translations of poems 190, 191, 193 are from "Perspectives on the Tang" edited by Arthur Wright and Denis Twitchett, published by Yale University Press, 1973.
About the print version
The Jade Mountain
Translator Witter Bynner.
Alfred A.Knopf
New York
1920 Reprinted with permission of the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.
About the print version
300 Tang Poems : a new translation
Editor Yuan-zhong Xu. Bei-yei Loh. Juntao Wu. Translator Various.
Commercial Press
Hong Kong
1987 Reproduced by permission of the Commercial Press (Hong Kong) Limited from the publication of "300 Tang Poems : A New Translation"
About the print version
Perspectives on the Tang
Editor Arthur Wright. Denis Twitchett.
Yale University Press
New Haven
1973 Reproduced with permission. Copyright 1973 by Yale University. All right reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.
001
きē钢
眎闹
稰笿ㄤ
﹖翬ㄓ 鍯ぃ幢臮
凹ǎ蛮籄尘 盻痌攫
罛罛れ舚 眔礚倪
狝眞 蔼笹碿
さи笴 ┮紏
Five-character-ancient-verse
Zhang Jiuling
THOUGHTS I
A lonely swan from the sea flies,
To alight on puddles it does not deign.
Nesting in the poplar of pearls
It spies and questions green birds twain:
"Don't you fear the threat of slings,
Perched on top of branches so high?
Nice clothes invite pointing fingers,
High climbers god's good will defy.
Bird-hunters will crave me in vain,
For I roam the limitless sky."
002
きē钢
眎闹
稰笿ㄤ
孽腑琄呋隑 地伯间
猋猋ネ種 焊ㄎ竊
街狶聪 籇Г
れΤセみ ―ч
Five-character-ancient-verse
Zhang Jiuling
ORCHID AND ORANGE I
Tender orchid-leaves in spring
And cinnamon- blossoms bright in autumn
Are as self- contained as life is,
Which conforms them to the seasons.
Yet why will you think that a forest-hermit,
Allured by sweet winds and contented with beauty,
Would no more ask to-be transplanted
THan Would any other natural flower?
003
きē钢
眎闹
稰笿ㄤ
耴縒 孩納瑍﹖睲
谅蔼尘 ぇ肚环薄
ら胔種 街稰弘
℉瞶筳 ┮饥港
Five-character-ancient-verse
Zhang Jiuling
THOUGHTS III
The hermit in his lone abode
Nurses his thoughts cleansed of care,
Them he projects to the wild goose
For it to his distant Sovereign to bear.
Who will be moved by the sincerity
Of my vain day-and-night prayer?
What comfort is for my loyalty
When fliers and sinkers can compare?
004
きē钢
眎闹
稰笿ㄤ
玭Τう撅 竒礢厚狶
癦レ穢 Τ烦碒み
滤古 ー瞏
笲㏑暴┮笿 碻吏ぃ碝
畕ē攫 れ癦礚潮
Five-character-ancient-verse
Zhang Jiuling
ORCHID AND ORANGE II
Here, south of the Yangzi, grows a red orangetree.
All winter long its leaves are green,
Not because of a warmer soil,
But because its' nature is used to the cold.
Though it might serve your honourable guests,
You leave it here, far below mountain and river.
Circumstance governs destiny.
Cause and effect are an infinite cycle.
You plant your peach-trees and your plums,
You forget the shade from this other tree.
005
きē钢
フ
沧玭筁必吹盝竚皊
记眖貉 る繦耴
玱臮┮ㄓ畖 籥籥绢籄稬
拟のバ產 担竂秨磛
厚λ畖 獵炮┴︽︾
舧ē眔┮就 皊册揣
簈猀 Ρ荷猠琍祡
и綤確贾 吵礛а诀
Five-character-ancient-verse
Li Bai
DOWN ZHONGNAN MOUNTAIN
TO THE KIND PILLOW AND BOWL OF HUSI
Down the blue mountain in the evening,
Moonlight was my homeward escort.
Looking back, I saw my path
Lie in levels of deep shadow....
I was passing the farm-house of a friend,
When his children called from a gate of thorn
And led me twining through jade bamboos
Where green vines caught and held my clothes.
And I was glad of a chance to rest
And glad of a chance to drink with my friend....
We sang to the tune of the wind in the pines;
And we finished our songs as the stars went down,
When, I being drunk and my friend more than happy,
Between us we forgot the world.
006
きē钢
フ
る縒皍
丁除皊 縒皍礚克
羭狹淋る 癸紇Θ
る琂ぃ秆都 紇畕繦иō
既︸る盢紇 ︽贾斗の琄
и簈る眗 и籖紇箂睹
眶ユ舧 綤だ床
ッ挡礚薄笴 戳落冻簙
Five-character-ancient-verse
Li Bai
DRINKING ALONE WITH THE MOON
From a pot of wine among the flowers
I drank alone. There was no one with me --
Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon
To bring me my shadow and make us three.
Alas, the moon was unable to drink
And my shadow tagged me vacantly;
But still for a while I had these friends
To cheer me through the end of spring....
I sang. The moon encouraged me.
I danced. My shadow tumbled after.
As long as I knew, we were boon companions.
And then I was drunk, and we lost one another.
...Shall goodwill ever be secure?
I watch the long road of the River of Stars.
007
きē钢
フ
琄
縋貉捣 厚狵
讽胔耴ら 琌ヽ耞竮
琄ぃ醚 ㄆ霉碬
Five-character-ancient-verse
Li Bai
IN SPRING
Your grasses up north are as blue as jade,
Our mulberries here curve green-threaded branches;
And at last you think of returning home,
Now when my heart is almost broken....
O breeze of the spring, since I dare not know you,
Why part the silk curtains by my bed?
008
きē钢
╦
辨喇
┃﹙ひ 霍緗獵ゼ
硑て灵╭ 潮锭澄惧
历ネ糷冻 ∕职耴尘
穦讽荡郴 凝渤
┄
Five-character-ancient-verse
Du Fu
A VIEW OF TAISHAN
What shall I say of the Great Peak? --
The ancient dukedoms are everywhere green,
Inspired and stirred by the breath of creation,
With the Twin Forces balancing day and night.
...I bare my breast toward opening clouds,
I strain my sight after birds flying home.
When shall I reach the top and hold
All mountains in a single glance?
009
きē钢
╦