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Ouyang Xiu: Poems

Read 4 poems with pinyin and English translations. Notes record textual variants and differing attributions where relevant.

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Mooring at Yueyang at Dusk

Ouyang Xiu

Lying here I hear the bells within the city of Yueyang; my boat is moored beneath the trees below the walls of Yueyang.

Playful Reply to Yuanzhen

Ouyang Xiu

I doubt the spring wind ever reaches this corner of the world: in the second month the mountain town has still not seen a flower.

Leaving Chuzhou

Ouyang Xiu

The flower-light is thick and brilliant, the willows softly bright; they pour out wine before the flowers to speed me on my way.