I go sight-seeing in my sedan-chair

And stop where there's a scenic spot to see.

Burning incense attracts me to go where

I may have vegetable feast and tea.

The gentle rain stops and then starts again,

The little window looks gloomy and clean.

Shut out from sunlight by the hills, the plain

Is overspread with grass and trees so green.

When I ascend the peak'd pagoda, all

The boundless land extends before my eyes.

The Northern Peak o'erlooks the city wall;

On the Lake Zhenze float the cloudy skies.

A quiet place affords me keen delight;

In space immense I feel under no yoke.

Still looking for some more secluded sight,

I see from villages rise evening smoke.

Come back, I write down my impression deep,

Musing o'er it, I pass a sleepless night.

Nor do the devoted monks take their sleep,

They sit in meditation by lamplight.

——Visiting Temples on the Dragon Boat Festival

In a ship pf spice-wood with unsinkable oars,

Musicians at both ends, we drift along the shores.

We have sweet wine with singing girls to drink our fill,

And so the waves may carry us where'er they will。

Immortals could not fly without their yellow crane;

Unselfish men might follow white gulls to the main.

The verse of Qu Ping shines as bright as sun and moon,

While palaces of Chu vanish like dreams at noon.

Seeing my pen in verse, even the mountains shake;

Hearing my laughter proud, the seaside hermits wake.

If worldly fame and wealth were things to last forever,

Then northwestward would turn the eastward-flowing river.

——Song on the River

All night the west wind cuts the banana leaves;
through the autumn, wearied eyes have endured the loneliness.
Grudgingly, I give myself up to the unstrained wine.
While reading the Li Sao,
my sorrow resembles,
day after day, night after night,
the Xiang River tides.

——Tune: 'Remembering the Prince'

(Yi Wang-sun)

漲痕添、半篙柔綠，蒲梢荇葉無數(shù)。臺榭空蒙煙柳暗，白鳥銜魚欲舞。紅橋路，正一派、畫船蕭鼓中流住。嘔啞柔櫓，又早拂新荷，沿堤忽轉(zhuǎn)，沖破翠錢雨。
蒹葭渚，不減瀟湘深處。霏霏漠漠如霧，滴成一片鮫人淚，也似汨羅投賦。愁難譜，只彩線、香菰脈脈成千古。傷心莫語，記那日旗亭，水嬉散盡，中酒阻風(fēng)去。