《Tune: Moon Over West River》Xin Qi Ji

萬事煙雲忽過   Ten thousand affairs gone like clouds and haze
一身蒲柳先衰   A hundred years of willows withered away
而今何事最相宜  What is best for me to do at present?
宜醉                                     To get drunk
宜遊                                     To leisure
宜睡                                     To sleep Continue reading →

《Tune: Longing for You》Nalan Xingde

山一程                                    Legging hills far
水一程                                    Legging rills far
身向榆關那畔行        Toward lands outside the Pass I go
夜深千帳燈                Past midnight a thousand tents aglow Continue reading →

《Weeping for Old Qi the Brewer》 Li Bai

紀叟黃泉裡  Old Man Ji has gone to the Yellow Spring
還應釀老春  Would he be still brewing his Wine of Spring
夜台無曉日  When you see Li Bai no more at night
沽酒與何人  To whom could you sell brews so fine

《Thoughts While Sick》 Huang Ting Jian

翰墨場中老伏波   Fielding ink and literature this old man contemplates
菩提坊里病維摩   Under the Bhoddie tree Buddha’s questioning remains
近人積水無鷗鷺   The pond nearby attracts no gull nor cranes to hover
時有歸牛浮鼻過   Homeward buffaloes swim keeping heads above water

《雪景》
《Snow Scene》  Zheng Xie [Zheng Banqiao]

一片二片三四片  One flake two flakes three four flakes
五片六片七八片  Five flakes six flakes seven eight flakes
九片十片無數片  Nine flakes ten flakes eleven flakes
飛入蘆花看不見  Into reeds is seen no more flakes Continue reading →

《Written on Board at Yellow Sea to a Japanese Friend Who Show Me A Map of Japan-Russian War on Chinese Soil》  Qiu Jin

萬里乘風去複來   Ten thousand miles to and return I ride the wind
隻身東海挾春雷   Travelling alone to the East Sea thundering in spring
忍看圖畫移顏色   So sad to see the Chinese map in changed colour markings
肯使江山付劫灰   What government would allow its land reduced to war ashes Continue reading →