Some of the best poems of that period have been collected into an anthology known as The 300 Tang Dynasty Poems. A online version of the anthology may be found here.
Meng Haoran
RETURNING AT NIGHT TO LUMEN MOUNTAIN
A bell in the mountain-temple sounds the coming of night.
I hear people at the fishing-town stumble aboard the ferry,
While others follow the sand-bank to their homes along the river.
...I also take a boat and am bound for Lumen Mountain --
And soon the Lumen moonlight is piercing misty trees.
I have come, before I know it, upon an ancient hermitage,
The thatch door, the piney path, the solitude, the quiet,
Where a hermit lives and moves, never needing a companion.
Our hermit/poet doesn't need "companion" but looks like he is thirst for COMPANIONS, as a fish is thirst for water when it is out of it. Likewise for us bloggers, we don't need "readers" but do need READERS...actually thirst for them too...:):)
ReplyDeleteNice poem Rick.
The Tang Dynasty Poems are really timeless aren't they? But then, that could probably be said of any real work of art.
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