Tang Yun唐韵

No. 07 · Seven-character quatrain

望天门山

Looking at Heaven's Gate Mountain

Wàng Tiānmén Shān

by Li Bai 李白 · 701 – 762

  • Mountains
  • Rivers
  • Travel
天门中断楚江开Heaven's Gate is split apart; the Chu river cuts through.
碧水东流至此回Green water flows east and turns back here.
两岸青山相对出On either bank the blue hills come forward to meet me;
孤帆一片日边来a single sail arrives from the side of the sun.