He describes flicking his sword and singing "Taking the Hard Road" in "Ancient Air," and claimed "My thoughts of you are like the Wen's waters" in a poem written to his greatest rival.
He describes flicking his sword and singing "Taking the Hard Road" in "Ancient Air," and claimed "My thoughts of you are like the Wen's waters" in a poem written to his greatest rival. Another of his poems describes himself, his shadow, and the moon surrounding a pot of wine, though Americans may known him best from a work where the addressee has gone to the "land of the swirling eddies" and has abandoned his child-bride, and from Mahler's use of a compilation of his work, The Chinese Flute, in Das Lied von der Erde. Notably translated into English by Ezra Pound, FTP, name this T'ang poet of "The River Merchant's Wife," best known for not being Du Fu.
He describes flicking his sword and singing "Taking the Hard Road" in "Ancient Air," and claimed "My thoughts of you are like the Wen's waters" in a poem written to his greatest rival.
{Li Po} [accept {Li Bai} or other reasonably close transliterations]