Wei Yingwu 韋應物
poet · provincial governor · Tang China · 737?–792?
A poet who ran wild as a young imperial guardsman, and later wrote clear poems while serving as a local magistrate.
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784 · While prefect of Chuzhou
With so many illnesses I think of the fields of home. With people fleeing my county, I am ashamed to take my salary.
身多疾病思田里，邑有流亡愧俸錢。"Sent to Li Dan and Yuan Xi," in the Complete Tang Poems
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