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Father and Mother – Chinese Poetry
Yesterday, dust from foreign lands clinging to my skin I turned to my aged father To beg for the patch…
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Peach Blossoms Red – Chinese Poetry
The peaks tower as ever, the bridge worn as always. Events remembered by men are mere accidents. Only fragments of…
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Dream of Swans – Chinese Poetry
I dreamed still more: Swan after swan, Winging toward Jishi Mountain in Gansu, Where the world bears its bitterest sorrows.…
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Meeting a Leaf – Chinese Poetry
A leaf drifts down from the tree, and in one careless fall, it bears down the whole heavy autumn. Zhou…
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A Respite – Poetry from China
Stay hidden in the dim like this, Return to your true, mature self. Shen Qi, born in Mian County, Shaanxi…
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Gloom of Dusk – Chinese Poetry
Someday I shall lay down my pen And take slow walks. Can you picture My calm steps tinged with faint…
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Cold Moon of the Tang Dynasty
On the Xiang River, the boat struggles upstream against the current, No wine, no meat. His frail frame stands firm,…
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Sweeping Snow – Poetry from China
He sweeps on without pause, refusing to rest, Letting flakes settle thick on his cap and eyebrows. Li Shangyu writes…
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Water Lilies – Poetry from China
I behold you, the beauty I planted myself Dizzying my senses. Spring has just slipped away And summer dons a…
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Willing to Bear the Sufferings
The sea of suffering stretches boundless, wherever you swim, pain follows Chang’an holds it, Manhattan holds it, even you and…
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