”回鄉偶書“ 賀知章 ( Read more... )

詠鵝 (駱賓王)

鵝鵝鵝
曲項向天歌
白毛浮綠水
紅掌撥清波

"Ode to a goose" (Luo Binwang, ca. 640-684, 一個”初唐四杰“)

Goose, goose, goose!
Curving your neck, you sing to the sky.
White feathers floating on green waters;
Red feet paddling clear waves.

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Written, it's said, when he was 7; so, potentially younger depending on the calculation.

吳梅村 Wu Meicun, ll. 1-5, taken from Two Journeys to the North: A Comparative Study of the Poetic Journals of Wen T'ien-hsiang and Wu Mei-ts'un [文天祥與吳梅村：兩組北行詩得比較研究], p. 164

扁舟訪奇書，夜月南湖宿。
主人開東軒，磊落三萬軸。
別庋加收藏，前賢矜手錄。
北堂學士鈔，南宋遺民牘。
言過富春渚，登望文山哭。
Let's see, there's a good swath of this I understand (well, at least from an 'Oh, that's what that means' ( Read more... )