And to cast a fishing-line forever!
016
きē钢
蝴
呆バ產
弊酚糣辅 絘ο耴
偿ρ├担 磛
筺筼沉璢╭ 批痸腑祡
バひ颤維ミ ǎ粂ㄌㄌ
竢盯秇 保礛Α稬
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
A FARM-HOUSE ON THE WEI RIVER
In the slant of the sun on the country-side,
Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;
And a rugged old man in a thatch door
Leans on a staff and thinks of his son, the herdboy.
There are whirring pheasants? full wheat-ears,
Silk-worms asleep, pared mulberry-leaves.
And the farmers, returning with hoes on their shoulders,
Hail one another familiarly.
...No wonder I long for the simple life
And am sighing the old song, Oh, to go Back Again!
017
きē钢
蝴
﹁琁碟
艫︹ぱ ﹁琁圭稬
绰禫匪 记甤
解ら癦渤 禥ㄓよ祡
淋撑 ぃ帝霉︾
胐痲糱篈 鸡礚琌獶
讽褾︸ 馋眔ó耴
谅綟產 艻
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
THE BEAUTIFUL XI SHI
Since beauty is honoured all over the Empire,
How could Xi Shi remain humbly at home? --
Washing clothes at dawn by a southern lake --
And that evening a great lady in a palace of the north:
Lowly one day, no different from the others,
The next day exalted, everyone praising her.
No more would her own hands powder her face
Or arrange on her shoulders a silken robe.
And the more the King loved her, the lovelier she looked,
Blinding him away from wisdom.
...Girls who had once washed silk beside her
Were kept at a distance from her chariot.
And none of the girls in her neighbours' houses
By pursing their brows could copy her beauty.
018
きē钢
﹕疎礛
祅孽盚眎き
フ冻柑 留┥
辨﹍祅蔼 み繦董防
稵痢记癬 砍琌睲祇
ǎ耴 ‵︽寸繷凡
ぱ娩攫璝律 痐瑆る
讽更皊ㄓ 綤锭竊
Five-character-ancient-verse
Meng Haoran
ON CLIMBING ORCHID MOUNTAIN
IN THE AUTUMN TO ZHANG
On a northern peak among white clouds
You have found your hermitage of peace;
And now, as I climb this mountain to see you,
High with the wildgeese flies my heart.
The quiet dusk might seem a little sad
If this autumn weather were not so brisk and clear;
I look down at the river bank, with homeward-bound villagers
Resting on the sand till the ferry returns;
There are trees at the horizon like a row of grasses
And against the river's rim an island like the moon
I hope that you will come and meet me, bringing a basket of wine --
And we'll celebrate together the Mountain Holiday.
019
きē钢
﹕疎礛
甃ら玭獸胔ǒ
┛﹁辅 る亥狥
床緑睤 秨癮秪疮
颤癳 λ臩簑睲臫
饼伙礮紆 礚洁
稰胔珿 い甦骋冠稱
Five-character-ancient-verse
Meng Haoran
IN SUMMER AT THE SOUTH PAVILION
THINKING OF XING
The mountain-light suddenly fails in the west,
In the east from the lake the slow moon rises.
I loosen my hair to enjoy the evening coolness
And open my window and lie down in peace.
The wind brings me odours of lotuses,
And bamboo-leaves drip with a music of dew....
I would take up my lute and I would play,
But, alas, who here would understand?
And so I think of you, old friend,
O troubler of my midnight dreams !
020
きē钢
﹕疎礛
盝穨畍┬ぃ
锭﹁拉 竤坤翱篭
猀るネ睤 瑄骸睲钮
决耴饼荷 废尘聪﹚
ぇ戳盝ㄓ ﹖礮炮畖
Five-character-ancient-verse
Meng Haoran
AT THE MOUNTAIN-LODGE OF THE BUDDHIST PRIEST YE
WAITING IN VAIN FOR MY FRIEND DING
Now that the sun has set beyond the western range,
Valley after valley is shadowy and dim....
And now through pine-trees come the moon and the chill of evening,
And my ears feel pure with the sound of wind and water
Nearly all the woodsmen have reached home,
Birds have settled on their perches in the quiet mist....
And still -- because you promised -- I am waiting for you, waiting,
Playing lute under a wayside vine.
021
きē钢
闹
眖玭翹骣る拘潮盳ぶ┎
蔼玭翹 秨眂る
睲谨睭れ 簍簓怠め
璡璡碭店 坚坚跑さ
睲痐 琌禫璚
ńㄤ 稬孽
Five-character-ancient-verse
Wang Changling
WITH MY BROTHER AT THE SOUTH STUDY
THINKING IN THE MOONLIGHT OF VICE-PREFECT
CUI IN SHANYIN
Lying on a high seat in the south study,
We have lifted the curtain-and we see the rising moon
Brighten with pure light the water and the grove
And flow like a wave on our window and our door.
It will move through the cycle, full moon and then crescent again,
Calmly, beyond our wisdom, altering new to old.
...Our chosen one, our friend, is now by a limpid river --
Singing, perhaps, a plaintive eastern song.
He is far, far away from us, three hundred miles away.
And yet a breath of orchids comes along the wind.
022
きē钢
碝﹁留ぃ笿
荡郴璗 ń
Ι闽礚弓共 縮暴
璝獶ó 莱琌敞
畉ぃǎ 囡玧ヵゎ
︹穝獴い 猀羘边怠柑
の荡 ì亢みφ
瘤礚猾種 会眔睲瞓瞶
砍荷よ ゲぇ
Five-character-ancient-verse
Qiu Wei
AFTER MISSING THE RECLUSE
ON THE WESTERN MOUNTAIN
To your hermitage here on the top of the mountain
I have climbed, without stopping, these ten miles.
I have knocked at your door, and no one answered;
I have peeped into your room, at your seat beside the table.
Perhaps you are out riding in your canopied chair,
Or fishing, more likely, in some autumn pool.
Sorry though I am to be missing you,
You have become my meditation --
The beauty of your grasses, fresh with rain,
And close beside your window the music of your pines.
I take into my being all that I see and hear,
Soothing my senses, quieting my heart;
And though there be neither host nor guest,
Have I not reasoned a visit complete?
...After enough, I have gone down the mountain.
Why should I wait for you any longer?
023
きē钢
鉼ゐ肩
琄獂璝瑿匪
種礚耞荡 繦┮案
边︽︵ 隔匪
悔锣﹁坤 筳辨玭ゆ
兼废坊坊 狶る
ネㄆ膉憨 腀
Five-character-ancient-verse
Qiwu Qian
A BOAT IN SPRING ON RUOYA LAKE
Thoughtful elation has no end:
Onward I bear it to whatever come.
And my boat and I, before the evening breeze
Passing flowers, entering the lake,
Turn at nightfall toward the western valley,
Where I watch the south star over the mountain
And a mist that rises, hovering soft,
And the low moon slanting through the trees;
And I choose to put away from me every worldly matter
And only to be an old man with a fishing-pole.
024
きē钢
盽
盝闹留﹡
睲匪瞏ぃ代 留矪斑﹖冻
猀悔臩稬る 睲礢
璗獸盝紇 媚皘逮璦
ョ谅 ﹁苶舃竤
Five-character-ancient-verse
Chang Jian
AT WANG CHANGLIN' S RETREAT
Here, beside a clear deep lake,
You live accompanied by clouds;
Or soft through the pine the moon arrives
To be your own pure-hearted friend.
You rest under thatch in the shadow of your flowers,