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Encountering Rain at Zhangba Reservoir One Evening, I

Encountering Rain at Zhangba Reservoir One Evening While Enjoying a Cool Breeze with Rich Young Men  and Their Singing Girls, I Du Fu 712-770 Sunset is just right for boating A light breeze stirs a few waves Boaters pause by the dense bamboo And breathe in the cool lotus-flower air The young men add ice to their drinks The women scape lotus roots clean A cloud overhead turns dark Surely the rain will bring poems

Péi Zhū Guì Gōngzǐ Zhàngbā Gōu(Yī)

Péi Zhū Guì Gōngzǐ Zhàngbā Gōu Xié Jì Nàliáng Wǎn Jì Yù Yǔ (Yī) Dù Fǔ 712-770 Luò rì fàng chuán hǎo， Qīng fēng shēng làng chí. Zhú shēn liú kè chǔ， Hé jìng nàliáng shí. Gōngzǐ tiáo bīng shuǐ， Jiā rén xuě ǒusī. Piaǹ yún tóu shàng hēi， Yīng shì yǔ cuī shī.

Translator:

Red Pine-Bill Porter 赤松

Notes: From the book Poems of the Masters, China's Classic Anthology of Tang and Song Dynasty verse. One of the best, if not "the best", books of general translations of Chinese poetry. Wonderfully detailed notes on each poem and all poems are displayed in the original Chinese. Translated by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press.

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