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The Solitude of Night

Li Bai 701-762 It was at a wine party-- I lay in a drowse, knowing it not. The blown flowers fell and filled my lap. When I arose, still drunken, The birds had all gone to their nests, And there reminded but few of my comrades. I went along the river--alone in the moonlight.

Zì Qiǎn

Lǐ Bái 701-762 Duì jiǔ bù jué míng， Luò huā yíng wǒ yī. Zuì qǐ bù xī yuè， Niǎo huán rén yì xī.

Translator:

Shigeyoshi Obata 小畑薰良

Notes: From the book The Works of Li Po, first published in Tokyo, Japan in 1935, Excellent English translations by a Japanese scholar.

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