Lu You Poems
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Lu You: (1125-1210) was one of the most important and prolific Chinese writers of the Southern Song dynasty.
Lu You Poems – The Shen’s Garden
By Lu You
A drooping sun’ pon the city wall,
Pathetic notes of the bugle call.
Our old pavilion and pond so dear
Have vanished from this day’s garden drear.
My heart does ache as I see on the bridge, down there,
Spring water verdant that mirrored her figure, so fair!
Lu You Poems – The Shen’s Garden
By Lu You
I’ve been for ages out of the dreamland sweet.
The blossom I adored is faded for forty years.
In Shenyuan Garden willows are now.
Too old to scatter catkins about.
I myself am turning dust at the foot of Mount Kuai Ji,
Yet still my tears will drip for awakened memories in me!
Lu You Poems – A Short Poem on the Shens’Garden Wall
By Lu You
While maple leaves are tinted red and scarlet,
Tree tops of Mongolian oaks are turned sallow.
On finding hair on my temples turning white,
I can’t but feel alarmed and draw a sigh.
With woods, pavilions of old in view again,
O what a lot of memories clustering in vain!
And thou in the Nether World, bewildering and wild,
Fore whom art thou to lay those grievances of thine?
Beneath the pale, pale dust is the shabby wall
Retaining the poem which, maxed by drink, I scrawled,
What prized, prized recollections are haunting me?
Of days we were clinging together dear and sweet!
Thro’ years and years of bitter despairing dismay,
My fantastic fancies have all been worn away.
I’d care for nothing now but be home and kneel
At the shrine to raise my prayers to Buddha for thee.
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