夜雨寄北
Night Rain, Sent North
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The night rain appears twice, once as the lonely present and once as a future memory; few quatrains fold time so deftly, or so tenderly.
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Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Li Shangyin, serving far away in the southwest, answers a letter asking when he will come back; scholars still differ on whether it was written to his wife or a friend. ‘Night rain in the Ba hills’ appears twice: first as the lonely present, then as a memory the two of them will share one day by candlelight. It is a poem written from the future looking back, which makes it a natural fit for a library meant to be read later.
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- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died around 858.
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- Source
Wikisource
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001050
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- Title
- 夜雨寄北
Night Rain, Sent North - Author
- Li Shangyin 李商隱 (c. 813–c. 858)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
c. 851 - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource (from Three Hundred Tang Poems); the variant readings it marks are left out and punctuation is added at the source’s own phrase breaks.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.