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Taoist

8th Century

About Li Po

Timeline (701 - 762)

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English version by
Arthur Waley

Original Language
Chinese

Clearing at Dawn

Themes

Dawn

Garden

Lotus

Mountain

Rose

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	Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill
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	Li Pai: 200 Selected Poems, Translated by Rewi Alley
	Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, Translated by Arthur Cooper
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhalla Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

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The fields are chill, the sparse rain has stopped;
The colours of Spring teem on every side.
With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing thrushes the green boughs droop.
The flowers of the field have dabbled their powdered cheeks;
The mountain grasses are bent level at the waist.
By the bamboo stream the last fragment of cloud
Blown by the wind slowly scatters away.

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