A touch of cold in the Autumn night - I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. I did not stop to speak, but nodded; And round abo...

If You Were Coming in the Fall   If you were coming in the Fall, I’d brush the summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, As Housewives do, a Fly。 If I could see you in ...

The Master said, to learn and at due times to repeat what one has learned, is that not after all a pleasure? That friends should come to one from afar, is this not after all deligh...

      And if there were two moons，     who would sleep when one passed before the other     and took it inon its dark side？ &nb...

(The fantasia of a fallen gentleman on a cold,bitter night.) Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In the flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I That warmth‘s ...

Evening Song LOOK off, dear Love, across the sallow sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea, How long they kiss in sight of all the lands. Ah! Longer, longer, we. Now i...

AN OLD AIR Li Qi There once was a man, sent on military missions, A wanderer, from youth, on the You and Yan frontiers. Under the horses‘ hoofs he would meet his foes An...

    And nodding by the fire,take down this book,     And slowly read,and dream of the soft look     Your eyes had once,and of their sha...

When I am dead and over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, Though you should lean above me broken-hearted. I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are ...

A SONG OF CHANGGAN Li Bai My hair had hardly covered my forehead. I was picking flowers, paying by my door, When you, my lover, on a bamboo horse, Came trotting in circle...