王维

竹里馆

独坐幽篁里，弹琴复长啸。

深林人不知，明月来相照。

Five-character-quatrain

Wang Wei

IN A RETREAT AMONG BAMBOOS

Leaning alone in the close bamboos,

I am playing my lute and humming a song

Too softly for anyone to hear --

Except my comrade, the bright moon.

王维

送别

山中相送罢，日暮掩柴扉。

春草明年绿，王孙归不归。

Wang Wei

A PARTING

Friend, I have watched you down the mountain

Till now in the dark I close my thatch door....

Grasses return again green in the spring,

But O my Prince of Friends, do you?

王维

相思

红豆生南国，春来发几枝。

愿君多采撷，此物最相思。

Wang Wei

ONE-HEARTED

When those red berries come in springtime,

Flushing on your southland branches,

Take home an armful, for my sake,

As a symbol of our love.

王维

杂诗

君自故乡来，应知故乡事。

来日绮窗前，寒梅著花未。

Wang Wei

LINES

You who have come from my old country,

Tell me what has happened there ! --

Was the plum, when you passed my silken window,

Opening its first cold blossom?

裴迪

送崔九

归山深浅去，须尽丘壑美。

莫学武陵人，暂游桃源里。

Pei Di

A FAREWELL TO CUI

Though you think to return to this maze of mountains,

Oh, let them brim your heart with wonder!....

Remember the fisherman from Wuling

Who had only a day in the Peach-Blossom Country.

祖咏

终南望余雪

终南阴岭秀，积雪浮云端。

林表明霁色，城中增暮寒。

Zu Young

ON SEEING THE SNOW-PEAK OF ZHONGNAN

See how Zhongnan Mountain soars

With its white top over floating clouds --

And a warm sky opening at the snow-line

While the town in the valley grows colder and colder.