月夜憶舍弟
Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night
Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770)
Sui–Tang · 759

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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. Guidance, not legal advice.
Source: Wikisource, https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/月夜憶舍弟 (retrieved 2026-10-11)
English translation: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
Generated 2026-10-14 from https://coldlibrary.com/en/open-stacks/du-fu-moonlit-night-thinking-of-my-brothers

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戍鼓斷人行，邊秋一雁聲。
露從今夜白，月是故鄉明。
有弟皆分散，無家問死生。
寄書長不達，況乃未休兵。

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戍鼓断人行，边秋一雁声。
露从今夜白，月是故乡明。
有弟皆分散，无家问死生。
寄书长不达，况乃未休兵。

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English translation by Claude (an AI)

Garrison drums have stopped all travel;
at the frontier in autumn, the cry of one wild goose.
From tonight the dew turns white;
the moon is brighter over home.
I have brothers, all of them scattered,
and no home left where I can ask if they are alive.
The letters I send never seem to arrive,
and still the fighting has not stopped.