Bai Juyi 白居易
826 · Tang China · On first meeting Liu Yuxi at a banquet in Yangzhou, as he came back from twenty-three years of exile
I raise my eyes and the view is always lonely. A court full of offices, and you alone left to waste your years. I know that talent and a name must be bent for it, but twenty-three years is too much bending.
舉眼風光長寂寞，滿朝官職獨蹉跎。
亦知合被才名折，二十三年折太多。"Drunk, Presented to Prefect Liu the Twenty-Eighth"
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Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫
826 · Tang China · In answer to the poem Bai Juyi made for him at that table
Beside the sunken boat a thousand sails go by. Before the sick tree ten thousand trees are in spring. Today I have heard you sing one song, and for a while, with this cup of wine, I take heart.
沈舟側畔千帆過，病樹前頭萬木春。
今日聽君歌一曲，暫憑杯酒長精神。"Answering Letian's Poem Given at Our First Meeting, at a Banquet in Yangzhou"
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