Yuan Zhen 元稹
815 · Tang China
A guttering lamp, no flame, shadows flickering: this is the evening I hear you are banished to Jiujiang. Sick almost to death, I sit up startled, as a dark wind blows rain in at the cold window.
殘燈無焰影幢幢，此夕聞君謫九江。
垂死病中驚坐起，暗風吹雨入寒窗。"On Hearing That Letian Was Made Marshal of Jiangzhou," in the Complete Tang Poems
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Bai Juyi 白居易
815 · Tang China · On the boat to Jiangzhou, where he had been demoted
I take your scroll of poems and read it by the lamp. The poems are finished, the lamp is low, and it is not yet dawn. My eyes ache; I put out the lamp and still sit in the dark, to the sound of waves, driven by a head wind, beating on the boat.
把君詩卷燈前讀，詩盡燈殘天未明。
眼痛滅燈猶闇坐，逆風吹浪打船聲。"Reading Yuan Zhen's Poems on a Boat," in the Complete Tang Poems
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