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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A PORTRAIT PAINTER WHO DESIRED HIM TO SIT, by PO CHU-YI Poet's Biography
First Line: You, so bravely splashing reds and blues!
Last Line: What can I do with a portrait such as that?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters; Portraits
First Line: You, so bravely splashing reds and blues!
Last Line: What can I do with a portrait such as that?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters; Portraits
You, so bravely splashing reds and blues!
Just when I am getting wrinkled and old.
Why should you waste the moments of inspiration
Tracing the withered limbs of a sick man?
Tall, tall is the Palace of Ch'i-lin;
But my deeds have not been frescoed on its walls.
Minutely limned on a foot of painting silk --
What can I do with a portrait such as that?
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