Poems by Bai Juyi

Around my garden the little wall is low;
In the bailiff's lodge the lists are seldom checked.
...

A.D. 812 My house is poor; those that I love have left me;
My body is sick; I cannot join the ...

A.D. 806 Tillers of the soil have few idle months;
In the fifth month their toil is double-fol...

I dismount from my horse at the Hsi-lin Temple;
I throw the porter my slender riding-whip.
In ...

A.D. 833 In an idle hour I thought of former days;
And former friends seemed to be standing in...

A.D. 820 Heat and cold, dusk and dawn have crowded one upon the other;
Suddenly I find it is ...

A.D. 822 We had rode long and were still far from the inn;
My eyes grew dim; for a moment I fe...

Don't think of the past;
It only awakens painful regrets.
Don't think of the future;
It para...

Ruined and ill--a man of two score;
Pretty and guileless--a girl of three.
Not a boy--but stil...

A melancholy walk among red peonies;
When evening comes, only two flowers remain.
They will n...

A.D. 815 Since I lived a stranger in the City of Hsü n-yang
Hour by hour bitter rain has p...

I I hug my pillow and do not speak a word;
In my empty room no sound stirs.
Who knows that, ...

My clumsy poem on the inn-wall none cared to see.
With bird-droppings and moss's growth the lett...

A.D. 806 Unrewarded, my will to serve the State;
At my closed door autumn grasses grow.
What...

A.D. 832 At dawn I sighed to see my hairs fall;
At dusk I sighed to see my hairs fall.
For I ...