Note on a Rainy Night to a Friend in the North
Reaching
THE HAN MONUMENT
A Cicada
Wind and Rain
Falling Petals
Thoughts in the Cold
North Among Green Vines
The Inlaid Harp
To One Unnamed
The Palace of the Sui Emperor
To One Unnamed I
To One Unnamed II
In the Camp of the Sketching Brush
To One Unnamed III
Spring Rain
To One Unnamed IV
To One Unnamed V
The Leyou Tombs
A Message to Secretary Linghu
There Is Only One
The Sui Palace
The Jade Pool
To the Moon Goddess
| Multiple poems at a time |
筹笔驿
筹笔驿In the Camp of the Sketching Brush
筹笔驿
Li Shangyin
Monkeys and birds are still alert for your orders
And winds and clouds eager to shield your fortress.
...You were master of the brush, and a sagacious general,
But your Emperor, defeated, rode the prison-cart.
You were abler than even the greatest Zhou statesmen,
Yet less fortunate than the two Shu generals who were killed in action.
And, though at your birth-place a temple has been built to you,
You never finished singing your Song of the Holy Mountain
Translator: Witter Bynner
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