Tang Yun唐韵

No. 58 · Seven-character quatrain

滁州西涧

West Ravine at Chuzhou

Chúzhōu Xī Jiàn

by Wei Yingwu 韦应物 · 737 – 792

  • Rivers
  • Spring
  • Stillness
独怜幽草涧边生I love, most of all, the hidden grass growing by the ravine,
上有黄鹂深树鸣with orioles singing above it in the deep trees.
春潮带雨晚来急Spring tide with rain: toward evening it comes fast.
野渡无人舟自横At the wild crossing there is no one, and the boat lies across the water by itself.