春夜喜雨
Glad of Rain on a Spring Night
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Rain praised like a good person, working unseen at night, with a final image of flowers heavy in the city; Du Fu at ease, and exact even in gladness.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Written in Chengdu in 761, during one of the few settled spells of Du Fu’s life, at the thatched cottage that friends helped him build. The rain is praised the way one would praise a good person: it knows when it is needed, does its work at night, and asks for no notice. The title names gladness outright, which is rare in Du Fu.
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- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 770.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
Wikisource
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001037
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Full record
- Title
- 春夜喜雨
Glad of Rain on a Spring Night - Author
- Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
761 - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource; the variant readings it marks are left out.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.