Yu Wuling 于武陵
mid-9th century · Tang China
I offer you this golden cup. It is poured full: do not refuse. When flowers open there is much wind and rain. A human life has partings enough.
勸君金屈卮，滿酌不須辭。
花發多風雨，人生足別離。"Offering Wine"
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Bai Juyi 白居易
c. 817 · Tang China
Green foam on the new unstrained wine, a little stove of red clay. Evening comes and the sky looks like snow. Could you drink a cup with me?
綠螘新醅酒，紅泥小火壚。
晚來天欲雪，能飲一杯無。"A Question for Liu the Nineteenth," in the Complete Tang Poems
Meng Haoran 孟浩然
c. 730 · Tang China
My old friend cooked a chicken and millet and invited me to his farmhouse. Green trees close in at the edge of the village. Blue hills slant beyond the town wall. We spread the mats facing the threshing floor and the garden, and, cup in hand, talk of mulberry and hemp. When the Double Ninth comes round, I shall come again for the chrysanthemums.
故人具雞黍，邀我至田家。
綠樹村邊合，青山郭外斜。
開筵面場圃，把酒話桑麻。
待到重陽日，還來就菊花。"Visiting an Old Friend's Farm"
Wang Wei 王維
mid-8th century · Tang China
I urge you, drain one more cup of wine. West of the Yang Pass there will be no old friends.
勸君更盡一杯酒，西出陽關無故人。"Song of Weicheng," also called "Seeing Off Yuan the Second on His Mission to Anxi"
Li Bai 李白
8th century · Tang China
The two of us drink face to face, and the mountain flowers open. One cup, one cup, and one cup more. I am drunk and want to sleep, so you had better go. Tomorrow morning, if you feel like it, come back with your zither.
兩人對酌山花開，一杯一杯復一杯。
我醉欲眠卿且去，明朝有意抱琴來。"Drinking in the Mountains with a Recluse," in the Complete Tang Poems
Yamanoue no Okura 山上憶良
c. 728 · Nara Japan
Okura will take his leave now. The children will be crying, and their mother, too, will be waiting for me.
憶良らは今はまからむ子泣くらむそれその母も我をまつらむそMan'yoshu, book 3, a poem made on leaving a banquet
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