Li Po: A Great Chinese Poet
    by Yann and Matt

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    Li Po's Works

    Alone And Drinking Under The Moon
    Autumn River Song.
    Chiang Chin Chiu
    Roll away to the deep sea and never turn again!
    Clearing at Dawn
    Climbing West Of Lotus Flower Peak
    Confessional
    Drinking Alone I take my wine jug out among the flowers
    Drinking With Someone In The Mountains
    Going Up Yoyang Tower
    Good Old Moon
    Listening to a Flute in Yellow Crane Pavillion
    Looking For A Monk And Not Finding Him
    Mountain Drinking Song
    On Dragon Hill
    On Kusu Terrace
    Resentment Near the Jade Stairs
    Self-Abandonment
    She Spins Silk
    Song of the Forge
    Song Of The Jade Cup
    Summer in the Mountains
    The Cold Clear Spring At Nanyang
    To Tan-Ch'iu
    To Tu Fu from Shantung
    Visiting A Taoist On Tiatien Mountain
    Waterfall at Lu-shan



     The River Merchants Wife: A Letter

    While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
    I played about my front gate, pulling flowers.
    You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
    You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
    And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
    Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.

    At fourteen I married My Lord you.
    I never laughed being bashful.
    Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
    Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.

    At fifteen I stopped scowling,
    I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
    Forever and forever and forever.
    Why should I climb the lookout?

    At sixteen you departed,
    You went into the far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
    And you have been gone five months.
    The monkies make sorrowful noise overhead.

    You dragged your feet when you went out.
    By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
    Too deep to clear them away!
    The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
    The paired butterflies are already yellow with August over the grass in the west garden;
    They hurt me. I grow older.
    If you are comming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
    Please let me know beforehand,
    And I will come out to meet you As far as Cho-fu-sa.

    By Matt Harrell and Yann Domalain
    Review of a poem
    Biography on Li Po