宿建德江
Night on the Jiande River
Meng Haoran 孟浩然 (689–740)
Sui–Tang · c. 730

Cold Library · Open Stacks · S-001021 · https://coldlibrary.com/s/001021
Rights: Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 740. 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/宿建德江 (retrieved 2026-10-11)
English translation: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
Generated 2026-10-14 from https://coldlibrary.com/en/open-stacks/meng-haoran-night-on-the-jiande-river

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移舟泊煙渚，日暮客愁新。
野曠天低樹，江清月近人。

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移舟泊烟渚，日暮客愁新。
野旷天低树，江清月近人。

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English translation by Claude (an AI)

I move my boat to moor by a misty islet;
at dusk the traveller's sorrow is new again.
The fields are wide, the sky comes down below the trees;
the river is clear, and the moon comes close.