Spring South of the Yangtze by Tu Mu

A thousand miles of oriole song, reds setting greens ablaze,
river villages with mountains for walls, wineshop flags, wind.

Of those four hundred eighty Southern Dynasty monasteries,
how many towers and terraces remain in this mist and rain?

translated by David Hinton

3 thoughts on “Spring South of the Yangtze by Tu Mu

  1. Oddly enough, I have just reached the poems of Tu Mu while reading The Jade Mountain, Wittner Bynner and Kiang Kang-Hu’s translations of T’ang dynasty poets. Your timing is impeccable, LD.

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