by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971)
洞庭西望楚江分，/ 水盡南天不見雲。
Language: Chinese (中文)
洞庭西望楚江分， 水盡南天不見雲。 日落長沙秋色遠， 不知何處弔湘君。
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- 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. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Shigeyoshi Obata) , "On the Tung-ting Lake - I", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse
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On the Tung‑ting Lake ‑ I
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
Westward from Tung-ting the Chu River branches out, While the lake fades into the cloudless sky of the south The sun gone down, the autumn twilight steals afar over Chang-sha. I wonder where sleep the lost queens of Hsiang of old.
Confirmed with Shigeyoshi Obata, The Works of Li-Po, the Chinese poet, London : Dent, 1923, p.170
Text Authorship:
- by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), "On the Tung-ting Lake - I", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Chinese (中文) 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. 1
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