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Wei Yingwu Where tender grasses rim the stream
And deep boughs trill with mango-birds, On the spring flood of last night's rain The ferry-boat moves as though someone were poling. Wei Yingwu Outside are insignia, shown in state;
But here are sweet incense-clouds, quietly ours. Wind and rain, coming in from sea, Have cooled this pavilion above the lake And driven the feverish heat away From where my eminent guests are gathered. ...Ashamed though I am of my high position While people lead unhappy lives, Let us reasonably banish care And just be friends, enjoying nature. Though we have to go without fish and meat, There are fruits and vegetables aplenty. ...We bow, we take our cups of wine, We give our attention to beautiful poems. When the mind is exalted, the body is lightened And feels as if it could float in the wind. ...Suzhou is famed as a centre of letters; And all you writers, coming here, Prove that the name of a great land Is made by better things than wealth. Wei Yingwu Wistful, away from my friends and kin,
Through mist and fog I float and float With the sail that bears me toward Loyang. In Yangzhou trees linger bell-notes of evening, Marking the day and the place of our parting.... When shall we meet again and where? ...Destiny is a boat on the waves, Borne to and fro, beyond our will. Wei Yingwu My office has grown cold today;
And I suddenly think of my mountain friend Gathering firewood down in the valley Or boiling white stones for potatoes in his hut.... I wish I might take him a cup of wine To cheer him through the evening storm; But in fallen leaves that have heaped the bare slopes, How should I ever find his footprints! Wei Yingwu Out of the east you visit me,
With the rain of Baling still on your clothes, I ask you what you have come here for; You say: "To buy an ax for cutting wood in the mountains" ...Hidden deep in a haze of blossom, Swallow fledglings chirp at ease As they did when we parted, a year ago.... How grey our temples have grown since them! Wei Yingwu Furling my sail near the town of Huai,
I find for harbour a little cove Where a sudden breeze whips up the waves. The sun is growing dim now and sinks in the dusk. People are coming home. The bright mountain-peak darkens. Wildgeese fly down to an island of white weeds. ...At midnight I think of a northern city-gate, And I hear a bell tolling between me and sleep. Wei Yingwu From office confinement all year long,
I have come out of town to be free this morning Where willows harmonize the wind And green hills lighten the cares of the world. I lean by a tree and rest myself Or wander up and down a stream. ...Mists have wet the fragrant meadows; A spring dove calls from some hidden place. ...With quiet surroundings, the mind is at peace, But beset with affairs, it grows restless again.... Here I shall finally build me a cabin, As Tao Qian built one long ago. Wei Yingwu My heart has been heavy all day long
Because you have so far to go. The marriage of a girl, away from her parents, Is the launching of a little boat on a great river. ...You were very young when your mother died, Which made me the more tender of you. Your elder sister has looked out for you, And now you are both crying and cannot part. This makes my grief the harder to bear; Yet it is right that you should go. ...Having had from childhood no mother to guide you, How will you honour your mother-in-law? It's an excellent family; they will be kind to you, They will forgive you your mistakes -- Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry. Be gentle and respectful, as a woman should be, Careful of word and look, observant of good example. ...After this morning we separate, There's no knowing for how long.... I always try to hide my feelings -- They are suddenly too much for me, When I turn and see my younger daughter With the tears running down her cheek. Wei Yingwu We used to be companions on the Jiang and the Han,
And as often as we met, we were likely to be tipsy. Since we left one another, floating apart like clouds, Ten years have run like water-till at last we join again. And we talk again and laugh again just as in earlier days, Except that the hair on our heads is tinged now with grey. Why not come along, then, all of us together, And face the autumn mountains and sail along the Huai? Wei Yingwu Is it raining on the river all the way to Chu? – -
The evening bell comes to us from Nanjing. Your wet sail drags and is loath to be going And shadowy birds are flying slow. We cannot see the deep ocean-gate – Only the boughs at Pukou, newly dripping. Likewise, because of our great love, There are threads of water on our faces. Wei Yingwu We met last among flowers, among flowers we parted,
And here, a year later, there are flowers again; But, with ways of the world too strange to foretell, Spring only brings me grief and fatigue. I am sick, and I think of my home in the country- Ashamed to take pay while so many are idle. ...In my western tower, because of your promise, I have watched the full moons come and go. Wei Yingwu As I walk in the cool of the autumn night,
Thinking of you, singing my poem, I hear a mountain pine-cone fall.... You also seem to be awake. Wei Yingwu Jun speech Mai travel, drink this holocaust end. Have that hang far, how the insurance difficulties. Water went to a large sink, Gu Yun also twilight mountains. Still owned by ruthless, hard-line sub-Ho alone. Drove back town park, north wind volume and Trace. Winter frost off muscle, at no less interest income. Huan Yung-transformer worry, summer and winter personnel is easy. Center Jun Ju knowledge, only Chen Yu-white ice. Yellow Bird Ho Kwan, Orchid also extravagant extravagant. At this point purdah women, sunshine screens inside. Juan-juan Double Tsing E, slightly Kai Yu teeth. Since Xi Tao Li, the wrong body Ranger son. Nothing for a long time leaving, I do not know this life and death. Mindanao Mindanao high mountains, 浼 浼 Green to the stream. The world does not Ziwu, such as shock Xiu Xie Chi. Hundreds of non-payment by weight, a rare kindness good. Zhijiu parents and friends, Yue Jing Fang in the country. Bustling capital city, the Villa am out of cover. Chueiyang second Qu, Ying Jin Zhang hidden room. Palace North-South pair, flying concept Qibai day. Swimming is Fang, the completion of his life from the cloud. Ho Chi House atmosphere heavy atmosphere, Asahi is Gao Gao. Walls with breeze, Danxia shot the lattice window. Yuk Ngan, Becky warble on the sad, the world must not have ears. But the sense of Lihen situation, I do not know someone's wife. Gu Yun suddenly colorless, while horse back. Qu must Bitian high, the rest scattered sound found in the public. Wandering Italy curtain, bear alone the night keep. Articles by north wind Xiang, a thousand miles to the road. Ka Shue Ai first green, extravagant Wu You-Fang Ye. Gentleman does not reward, sending clouds of road length. Way more difficult long letter, but unfortunately when the rest of this aromatic. Solitary birds long gone days of the end to seal the situation. Autumn Moon long, no bird, North forest. Tian Wang hardly ever, when the southwest shank. Cold cricket sad chamber, and a good bird exhaustive tone. Business soared overnight to, single pregnant places heavy quilt. The old one at a thousand miles, I float and sink separated. Life Qi vegetation, cold and heat transfer for this heart. Star of the discretionary non-wine, bay not for food. Well-known virtual thin air, King and a long sigh. Cymbidium be pregnant, although, aromatic with the rates. Qi as Lingshuang leaves, old Muai color. Sophie will be a gift pack, extending thousands of miles off Italy. Cheap micro vegetation know, the expensive cold easy. Divine GAO, the YA Kan Mibu pass. Hanyue no green field, a handful of Sky empty. Yin and Yang Yu-stop, Chen crisp each end. Fen-Ju Kim Ho rustic, consider nirvana He retired poor. Anti-led 跼 Chi Solutions, doing nothing is still labor bow. Americans won the Southland, a smile to open Lotus. Barber made clear mirror, 褰 a deep shade. Yan Song was white teeth, dance Luo bear wind. Ug ug love to be, a gift for me Yung Fang. May be rude brothel, the flow in the film Jun curtain. Changes to the trees in spring, the bridal chamber with clear evening. Who can cut single house, the birds on my Ming. Beloved long Hebei, new love move his life. Do not double mandarin duck when Qi, leaving thousands of hate in this situation. Health Bicao old tracks, audio Green Qin Fang break. Think will Hunmeng Huan, anti-side sleep soundly accomplished. Football fans of the times clothes, looking from an unprecedented court. Guying Self-sad, I do not know double to tears. No stay in the autumn landscape, things hidden glory. Leaves the wind, the worry by Ho alone. China on repeated moon, Jun Hao has no period. How must the rain days, ask for a violation to the sound. A guest one day, send my solitary Qin Tong. Span of thousands of miles apart, transfer care of this quiet tone. Frost in the self-node, Lung Yin phase. String to specify the straight, solid paint to make deep. Eddie did on the day, worries far Konggui students. Cunxin not limited to, Qishui long leisurely. Fang Yan Fang from the tree, spring birds from Xiangqiu. Things wandering hand, solitary concubine who with Chou. Love-by-wire tear down all of a charge. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu Heavy tray mirror, this dust erosion. If any of the glow, the black cloud month. South Golden Eagle only wrong, large belt decorated with co-hui. Materials were stored Kam Air, Yan Chi sitting so confused. Beauty dried liver and gallbladder, thinking according to ice jade. Ying workers from non-grinding, day empty sigh. Mansion _set_ Zoroastrianism birds, dead tree group number. Glimpse of one room at dusk, Guiwu phase period. Home people do not Anqin, fighting thinking at this time. No Eagle and Zhan Qi, refused to eat meat to fly. Bird Festival by both well-behaved, and air support Lingyun position. Negative meat alone Uh, He Yi City on the owl. Chun Luo double duck, cold night from women. Heart fine smoke color, refers to the calendar millions of threads. Long An Guihao home, flirtatious uncountable. Cut the hundred days, only to once they dance. New CD re-dancing, not at Silao were bitter. Since the corresponding simultaneous, not homogeneous body. Who knows who Jia Duo, make great music harmony. Common Sense made house sign, and the music changed their sorrow. God will not only enjoy Zhao, phoenix is also down. This not to the base material, a stage play heaven. Gou has combined physical conditions, Mowen jade and clay. Mediocre Jingshan Pu, Xian Bian and Kingsgate. Are seeking non-Jing Pu, and there's non-ex. David knows the offer, catholic and not wait for the statement. Non-Wu Yu Mo, Qi keep this road today. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu Xiejiu forest flowers, in front of golden grave. When not at the total discretion, Chennai this Izumishita people. Fang began to play things, read the Migration of the spring line of business. Chat Shuyuan Shi track, sitting Inspection also mountain clouds. And then a laugh, how can we know cheap and poor. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu Yuyu with Qing Lu, Hong cages scattered smoke. Results Shen should hold, hard to sleep from the evening hereby. Drain away from the eve of hate, chaos ring worm overcast autumn. Acacia repeated the word, there it is people. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu 霜露悴百草,时菊独妍华。物性有如此,寒暑其奈何。 掇英泛浊醪,日入会田家。尽醉茅檐下,一生岂在多。 Wei Yingwu King of Liang Xi to love, through the ages of not obliterate. Ikegami Peng has much _set_ all directions Bin. Car Ma Pingming together, castle full of dust and Egypt. Every one phase Jun Xu, Qi pro to his life. Going to three decades, how independent is not extended. British nationality nationality sound for a long time, Taiwan's Cabinet and more enemies. Zhijiu made clear bombs, phase and Chen Jia Le. Pavilion of the long lone hope, the next day Gwangjin. Good fortune preferable to abandon the West to Qin. Autumn overnight, the Andrew Chen and Liang-off. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu Wong and Shi Jun-fifth Quarters, Xiao-Chi Chi on the flue brush. Court through the Office of Chinese flowers, Lishan snow shower. Elegance shattered today still around, fairy floating Yao is not driving period. Meet old thinking this day, a cup into a hi also become sad. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu 楚塞故人稀,相逢本不期。犹存袖里字,忽怪鬓中丝。 客舍盈樽酒,江行满箧诗。更能连骑出,还似洛桥时。 Wei Yingwu Shi Pi Yin-day high, trace the heart alone was quiet. Zhu Xuan greedy off right, pool hall in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Then wind around the capital, dense mound Wang Song. Group to make the word of public passenger side driving forever on tour. North Korea once the climate good, Happy writing worries. Greenwood Ai has cloth, China Dan Marsh not flow. Abstract Youcao not disclosed, involving smoke play boat. Round both the water charge, mansions can be flooded to stay. Left by the arrests put God, Gong penalty often found reward. Yan is not a very good music, know that the have ups and downs. Drunk strike the clouds dispersed, what if multiple Xiangqiu. Translated by Google Wei Yingwu 空斋无一事,岸帻故人期。暂辍观书夜,还题玩月诗。 远钟高枕后,清露卷帘时。暗觉新秋近,残河欲曙迟。 Wei Yingwu 对此嘉树林,独有戚戚颜。抱瘵知旷职,淹旬非乐闲。 释子来问讯,诗人亦扣关。道同意暂遣,客散疾徐还。 园径自幽静,玄蝉噪其间。高窗瞰远郊,暮色起秋山。 英曹幸休暇,悢悢心所攀。 Wei Yingwu 素友俱薄世,屡招清景赏。鸣钟悟音闻,宿昔心已往。 重门相洞达,高宇亦遐朗。岚岭晓城分,清阴夏条长。 氲氛芳台馥,萧散竹池广。平荷随波泛,回飙激林响。 蔬食遵道侣,泊怀遗滞想。何彼尘昏人,区区在天壤。 |