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Li Bai 李白

8th century · Tang China

Too lazy to wave my white feather fan, I go naked in the green woods. I take off my headcloth and hang it on a rock wall, and bare my head to the wind in the pines.

嬾搖白羽扇,躶體青林中。 脫巾挂石壁,露頂洒松風。

"A Summer Day in the Mountains," in the Complete Tang Poems

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Jeong Yakyong 丁若鏞

c. 1796 · Joseon Korea

Past a month of steaming rain, foul air piling up, my limbs without strength from morning to dusk. Then early autumn: the blue sky clear and vast, from end to end not one speck of cloud. Is that not a delight?

跨月蒸淋積穢氛 四肢無力度朝曛 新秋碧落澄寥廓 端軸都無一點雲 不亦快哉

Yeoyudang jeonseo, "Is That Not a Delight?", first of twenty

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Jeong Cheol 鄭澈

later 16th century · Joseon Korea

The rustle of falling leaves: I took it for a thin rain. I called the monk to go out and look. "The moon is hanging in the tree south of the stream."

蕭蕭落木聲 錯認爲疏雨 呼僧出門看 月掛溪南樹

Songgang jip, "Chanted at Night in a Mountain Temple"

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Yi Jehyeon 李齊賢

14th century · Goryeo Korea

The paper quilt is cold and the temple lamp is dim; all night the little novice has not rung the bell. He will be cross that the guest opens the door so early, but I must see the snow weighing down the pine before the hermitage.

紙被生寒佛燈暗 沙彌一夜不鳴鍾 應嗔宿客開門早 要看庵前雪壓松

Ikjae nango, "A Snowy Night in the Mountains"

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