夜雨寄北
Night Rain, Sent North
Li Shangyin 李商隱 (c. 813–c. 858)
Sui–Tang · c. 851

Cold Library · Open Stacks · S-001050 · https://coldlibrary.com/s/001050
Rights: Tang dynasty poem; the author died around 858. 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/夜雨寄北 (retrieved 2026-10-11)
English translation: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
Generated 2026-10-14 from https://coldlibrary.com/en/open-stacks/li-shangyin-night-rain-sent-north

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君問歸期未有期，巴山夜雨漲秋池。
何當共剪西窗燭，卻話巴山夜雨時。

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君问归期未有期，巴山夜雨涨秋池。
何当共剪西窗烛，却话巴山夜雨时。

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English translation by Claude (an AI)

You ask when I'll come home. I cannot say.
Night rain in the Ba hills fills the autumn ponds.
When shall we trim the wick together by the west window
and talk about this night of rain in the Ba hills?