by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
南湖秋水夜無烟，/ 耐可乘流直上天。
Language: Chinese (中文)
南湖秋水夜無烟， 耐可乘流直上天。 且就洞庭賒月色， 將船買酒白雲邊。
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Confirmed with 全唐詩/卷179 (Complete Tang Poems, volume 179), available at Wikisource [external site].
Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), no title, appears in 陪族叔刑部侍郎晔及中书贾舍人至游洞庭五首 (Five Poems on a Trip to Dongting Lake with My Cousin, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Ye, and the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Jia Sheren), no. 2 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , " On the Tung-ting Lake - II", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse ; composed by Jacob Avshalomov.
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