Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOW I SAILED ON THE LAKE TILL I CAME TO THE EASTERN STREAM, by LU YU (1125-1210)


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HOW I SAILED ON THE LAKE TILL I CAME TO THE EASTERN STREAM, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of spring water, - thirty or forty miles
Last Line: And staggers up the bank to pluck wistaria flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


OF Spring water, -- thirty or forty miles:
In the evening sunlight, -- three or four houses.
Youths and boys minding geese and ducks:
Women and girls tending mulberries and hemp.
The place, -- remote: their coats and scarves old:
The year, -- fruitful: their talk and laughter gay.
The old wanderer moors his flat boat
And staggers up the bank to pluck wistaria flowers.





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