Cold Mountain Poem Twelve by Han-Shan.

Translated by Gary Snyder

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In my first thirty years of life
I roamed hundreds and thousands of miles
Walked by rivers through deep green grass
Entered cities of boiling red dust.
Tried , but couldn't make immortal;
Read books and wrote poems on history.
Today I'm back at Cold Mountain:
I'll sleep by the creek and purify my ears.

Comments

Kylie

🌻

2021.04.21 22:29
城城

@傅建峰 Joe Fu 好的，谢谢，翻译成这样还真是有点不太习惯😂

2021.04.21 01:45
傅建峰 Joe Fu

@城城唐代，寒山的诗，节选。

2021.04.21 01:20
abier

@Abdul Aziz @Shamus thanks

2021.04.20 17:17
Abdul Aziz

@Shamus yep, I got you! Eventually, when I saw there's a space between tried and comma

2021.04.20 16:48
Shamus

@Abdul Aziz Thanks for that Abdul. I had to remove the word as the app sometimes censors certain words.

2021.04.20 16:32
Abdul Aziz

@abier -Tried drugs, but couldn't make immortal; -I'll sleep by the creek and purify my ears.

2021.04.20 16:04
abier

Tried...., but couldn’t And purify my........?

2021.04.20 15:18
城城

中国诗吗？

2021.04.20 14:55
Shamus

Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this you might also enjoy my recent YT upload where I read various excerpts from the novella Captain Shigemoto's Mother. https://youtu.be/05xAuguEEGI

2021.04.20 13:43