2. as I sit here and watch a fisherman casting, just like a fish. -
3. I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, everywhere round me the singing of birds. -"Spring Dawn"
4. how wide the world was, how close the trees to heaven, and how clear in the water the nearness of the moon!. -a night-mooring on the jiande river
5. we watch the green trees that circle your village, and the pale blue of outlying mountains. -
6. preparing me chicken and rice, old friend, you entertain me at your farm. -
7. while my little boat moves on its mooring of mist, and daylight wanes, old memories begin. -a night-mooring on the jiande river
8. but now I remember the night, the storm, and I wonder how many blossoms were broken. -"Spring Dawn"
9. we open your window over garden and field, to talk mulberry and hemp with our cups in our hands. -
1. the wind brings me odours of lotuses, and bamboo-leaves drip with a music of dew. -"in Summer at the South Pavilion Thinking of Xin"
11. Blue nets cross mangroves, and clear springs are covered with green moss. -"Lai Yue Li Xin Ting Zuo"
12. Muluoyan south, and the water is cold with a wind from the north. -
13. I go forward. I weep till my tears are spent, I see a sail in the far sky. -
14. there are trees at the horizon like a row of grasses, and against the river's rim an island like the moon. I hope that you will come and meet me, bringing a basket of wine, * * * Drunk Double Ninth Festival. -on Climbing Orchid Mountain in the Autumn to Zhang
15. now that the sun has set beyond the western range, valley after valley is shadowy and dim. -
16. here in the Eighth-month the waters of the lake, are of a single air with heaven. -"A gift from Dongting Lake to Prime Minister Zhang"