《Hearing a Flute at Spring Night》 Li Yi
寒山吹笛喚春歸 A flute sings on Cold Hill to call back spring
遷客相看淚滿衣 Travelers face one another their tears rain
洞庭一夜無窮雁 Geese fly over Lake Dong Ting all night to flee
不待天明盡北飛 They horridly head north before dawn appears
《江南曲》李益 (748-821)《A Song from the South》Li Yi
嫁得瞿塘賈 Since I became a roving merchant’s wife
朝朝誤妾期 I miss his presence every day in my life
早知潮有信 If I knew the rhythmic trust of the tide
嫁與弄潮兒 I would choose to be a sailor’s bride Continue reading
On the Ci En Pagoda__Jing Shu 荊叔
To whom the hills and rills of the Han Dynasty now own
Great Emperor Chin’s tomb is deep with wild grass overgrown
Girding the central plateau plain a thousand li of mountains loom
Every inch of this terrain stands witness to human sorrow and moan
A Soldier’s Complaint__Lu Zhong Yong 柳中庸
I fought at GoldRiver and JadePass year after year
Each day I held my sword on my steed I fiercely reined
Three springs in a roll soldiers’ tombs are covered by snow
Mother River girds the Black Mount for miles its water yellow
Pipe Music at Surrender Town__Li Yi 李益
Sands on the foot of Mount Hui Le is white as snow
Above the Surrender Town the frosty moon hangs high
A pipe song lingers from where’re no one knows
Warriors lie homesick awake throughout the night