Du Fu 杜甫
745 · Tang China · In the autumn he spent wandering with Li Bai, eleven years his elder
Autumn comes and we look at each other, still tumbleweeds on the wind. We have not made the elixir, and are shamed before Ge Hong. Drinking hard and singing wildly, you pass your days in vain. All that swagger and defiance: for whom is it meant?
秋來相顧尚飄蓬，未就丹砂媿葛洪。
痛飲狂歌空度日，飛揚跋扈爲誰雄。"For Li Bai"
In the same thread
Li Bai 李白
c. 745 · Tang China · A poem handed down as Li Bai's
On the top of Fanke Hill I met Du Fu, a bamboo hat on his head in the noonday sun. Tell me, why so thin since we parted? It must be all the pain of writing poems.
飯顆山頭逢杜甫，頂戴笠子日卓午。
借問別來太瘦生，總爲從前作詩苦。"Teasing Du Fu"
Li Bai 李白
c. 746 · Tang China
The wine of Lu cannot make me drunk. The songs of Qi stir my feelings to no purpose. My thoughts of you are like the Wen River: in a broad flood I send them south.
魯酒不可醉，齊歌空復情。
思君若汶水，浩蕩寄南征。"Below the Walls of Shaqiu, Sent to Du Fu," in the Complete Tang Poems
Du Fu 杜甫
759 · Tang China · On hearing that Li Bai had been sent into exile
The south of the river is a land of fevers, and from the banished man there is no news. My old friend has come into my dream: he knows how constantly I think of him.
江南瘴癘地，逐客無消息。
故人入我夢，明我長相憶。"Dreaming of Li Bai," the first poem, in the Complete Tang Poems
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