孟郊诗

Poems of Meng Jiao


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过彭泽

Through Peng Marsh


扬帆过彭泽
舟人讶叹息
不见种柳人
霜风空寂历

Sails lift on Peng Marsh.
Boatmen sigh in admiration.
The planters of these willows are gone.
Hard times, then empty desolation.

-- 孟郊


废话

Peng was an ancient kingdom and an enemy of the Shang Dynasty. That's about all we know about it. The willows it planted must have endured. How beautiful is a two-thousand year old willow?


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