by Kao Shih-Chi (flourished 19th century)
Translation by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) and by Florence Wheelock Ayscough (1878 - 1942)

Evening calm
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
The sun has set.
The sand sparkles.
The sky is bright with afterglow.
The small waves flicker,
And the swirling water rustles the stones.
In the white path of the moon,
A small boat drifts,
Seeking for the entrance
To the stream of many turnings.
Probably there is snow
On the shady slopes of the hills.

Confirmed with Fir-Flower Tablets. Poems from the Chinese. Poems translated from the Chinese by Florence Ayscough. English versions by Amy Lowell, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921.


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This text was added to the website: 2025-04-19
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