Title:
Poems by Du Mu
Literary Content / Inscription:
By the Purple Cliff
On a part of a spear still unrusted in the sand
I have burnished the symbol of an ancient kingdom....
Except for a wind aiding General Zhou Yu,
Spring would have sealed both Qiao girls in CopperBird Palace.
A Mooring on the Qin Huai River
Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand,
As I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern,
Where girls, with no thought of a perished kingdom,
Gaily echo A Song of Courtyard Flowers.
A Message to Han Cho the Yangzhou Magistrate
There are faint green mountains and far green waters,
And grasses in this river region not yet faded by autumn;
And clear in the moon on the Twenty-Four Bridge
Bynner, Witter., Knopf, Alfred A., Xu, Yuan-zhong., Loh, Bei-yei. & Wu, Juntao. (1997). 300 Tang Poems. [online] Available at: https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-c059-cfbc-0000-00007065080a/TangPoems.pdf [Accessed 21 Feb. 2019].
On a part of a spear still unrusted in the sand
I have burnished the symbol of an ancient kingdom....
Except for a wind aiding General Zhou Yu,
Spring would have sealed both Qiao girls in CopperBird Palace.
A Mooring on the Qin Huai River
Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand,
As I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern,
Where girls, with no thought of a perished kingdom,
Gaily echo A Song of Courtyard Flowers.
A Message to Han Cho the Yangzhou Magistrate
There are faint green mountains and far green waters,
And grasses in this river region not yet faded by autumn;
And clear in the moon on the Twenty-Four Bridge
Bynner, Witter., Knopf, Alfred A., Xu, Yuan-zhong., Loh, Bei-yei. & Wu, Juntao. (1997). 300 Tang Poems. [online] Available at: https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-c059-cfbc-0000-00007065080a/TangPoems.pdf [Accessed 21 Feb. 2019].
Script / Format:
Clerical script／Handscroll
Collector / Year:
Dr. Daniel Chak Kwong Lau
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