Nature

How I Sailed on the Lake till I Came to the Eastern Stream

by Lu Yu 1125–1209

Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)

Nature

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.

MLA

Yu, Lu. “How I Sailed on the Lake till I Came to the Eastern Stream.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lu-yu/3/.

Chicago

Yu, Lu. “How I Sailed on the Lake till I Came to the Eastern Stream.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lu-yu/3/.

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