Zhang Ji 張籍
poet · Tang China · 766?–830?
A Tang poet who held low posts, troubled by poverty and an eye disease.
Posts
early 9th century
In the city of Luoyang I see the autumn wind. I want to write a letter home, and my thoughts come ten thousand deep. Suddenly afraid that in my hurry I have not said it all, as the traveller is about to leave I break the seal again.
洛陽城裏見秋風，欲作歸書意萬重。
忽恐匆匆說不盡，行人臨發又開封。"Autumn Thoughts," in the Complete Tang Poems
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