唐代 :: 杜甫 Du Fu

唐代杜甫 Du Fu 唐代（712～770）

Thoughts of Old Time V

A Long Climb

A Hearty Welcome to Vice-prefect Cui

A Spring View

The Eight-sided Fortress

On a Moonlight Night

A Song of War-chariots

Poetic Thoughts on Ancient Sites II

Autumn 8

Spring and 5

Above the ancient 3

Qian xing 5

The Temple of the Premier of Shu

A VIEW OF TAISHAN

Wang Yue Huashan Mountain

Wang Yue another anme for the Heng Mountain

From an Upper Story

On the Gate-tower at Youzhou

sing of one's feelings

A SONG OF A PAINTING TO GENERAL CAO

On Meeting Li Guinian Down the River

Remembering my Brothers on a Moonlight Night

TO MY RETIRED FRIEND WEI

ALONE IN HER BEAUTY

Multiple poems at a time

An eight-line poem with seven characters to a line and a strict pattern and rhyme scheme narrow At first Goubu rhyme

阁夜

Night in the Watch-tower
阁夜

Du Fu

While winter daylight shortens in the elemental scale
And snow and frost whiten the cold-circling night,
Stark sounds the fifth-watch with a challenge of drum and bugle.
...The stars and the River of Heaven pulse over the three mountains;
I hear women in the distance, wailing after the battle;
I see barbarian fishermen and woodcutters in the dawn.
...Sleeping-Dragon, Plunging-Horse, are no generals now, they are dust –
Hush for a moment, O tumult of the world.

2) A Night in a Chamber
Tr. Wu Juntao

The nights and days so swiftly flee at the end of the year;
At this corner of the earth, after snow, the cold, dark sky is clear.
In the dim twilight the drums and bugles moan touchingly;
Between the Three Gorges the waves mirror the galaxy.
The cry of battle is heard in some folk's wailings long.
And fishermen and woodsmen sing some alien folk song.
Even Zhuge Liang and Gongsun Shu were but dust at last,
How futile it is to bemoan sorrows that are past!

Note:
Gongsun Shu (?-36), an official of the Han Dynasty, but in the last years of the dynasty he occupied the area of Shu by force of arms, and entitled himself White Emperor.

　　　　Translator: Witter Bynner
　　

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