白居易诗

Poems of Bai Juyi


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舟中读元九诗

Reading Yuan Zhen's Poems on a Boat


把君诗卷灯前读
诗尽灯残天未明
眼痛灭灯犹闇坐
逆风吹浪打船声

I was reading scrolls of your poems by lamplight.
Poems done, lamp dim, heavens not yet light.
My eyes hurt. I doused the lamp and sat in darker dark.
Headwinds blew, waves beat, boat creaked and creaked.

-- 白居易


废话

It is 815 and Bai Juyi is in exile in Jiangzhou, Sichuan. And he's on the water again. Feeling lonely again. Missing Yuan Zhen again. Just like in the last poem. I won't even bother feeling sorry for him. At bottom, he's as happy as a clam.

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