黃鶴樓送孟浩然之廣陵黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵
At Yellow Crane Tower, Seeing Off Meng Haoran to Guangling
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A farewell that never names a feeling, only watches a sail vanish and then keeps watching the river; the restraint is complete, and it carries everything.
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Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Li Bai admired Meng Haoran, twelve years his elder, and saw him off down the Yangtze from Wuchang. The poem never names a feeling: it watches the sail until it is gone, then keeps watching the river. Most readers know the third line as ‘lost in the blue sky’, 碧空; the text shelved here reads ‘blue hills’, 碧山, and Wikisource records the other as a variant.
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Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 762.
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S-001034
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- Title
- 黃鶴樓送孟浩然之廣陵
At Yellow Crane Tower, Seeing Off Meng Haoran to Guangling 黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵 - Author
- Li Bai 李白 (701–762)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
c. 730 - 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.
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No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.