李白 : 月下獨酌

花間一壺酒，獨酌無相親。 - 舉杯邀明月，對影成三人。

月既不解飲，影徒隨我身。 - 暫伴月將影，行樂須及春。

我歌月徘徊，我舞影零亂。 - 醒時同交歡，醉後各分散。

永結無情遊，相期邈雲漢。

Li Bai (701-762) "Drinking alone with the moon"

a pot of wine among the flowers, I drank alone. There was no one with me --

Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon To bring me my shadow and make us three.

Alas, the moon was unable to drink And my shadow tagged me vacantly;

But still for a while I had these friends To cheer me through the end of spring....

I sang. The moon encouraged me. I danced. My shadow tumbled after.

As long as I knew, we were boon companions. And then I was drunk, and we lost one another.

...Shall goodwill ever be secure? I watch the long road of the River of Stars.

樂府 Poems in the style of the Music Bureau

王昌齡 : 塞上曲

蟬鳴空桑林，八月蕭關道。 - 出塞復入塞，處處黃蘆草。

從來幽并客，皆向沙場老。 - 莫學遊俠兒，矜誇紫騮好。

王昌齡 塞下曲

飲馬渡秋水，水寒風似刀。 - 平沙日未沒，黯黯見臨洮。

昔日長城戰，咸言意氣高。 - 黃塵足今古，白骨亂蓬蒿。

Wang Changling (698-756) "At a border fortress" I

Cicadas complain of thin mulberry-trees In the Eighth-month chill at the frontier pass.

Through the gate and back again, all along the road, There is nothing anywhere but yellow reeds and grasses

And the bones of soldiers You and Bing Who have buried their lives in the dusty sand.

...Let never a cavalier stir you to envy With boasts of his horse and his horsemanship

Wang Changling "At a border fortress" II

Drink, my horse, while we cross the autumn water!- The stream is cold and the wind like a sword,

As we watch against the sunset on the sandy plain, Far, far away, shadowy Lingtao.

Old battles, waged by those long walls, Once were proud on all men's tongues.

But antiquity now is a yellow dust, Confusing in the grasses its ruins and white bones.

B 七言古詩 Old style poems with seven syllables

柳宗元 : 漁翁

漁翁夜傍西巖宿，曉汲清湘燃楚燭。 - 煙銷日出不見人，欸乃一聲山水綠。

迴看天際下中流，巖上無心雲相逐。

Liu Zongyuan (733-819) "An old fisherman"

An old fisherman spent the night here, under the western cliff; He dipped up water the pure Hsiang and made a bamboo fire;