Living

After Getting Drunk, Becoming Sober in the Night

by Po Chü-i 772–846

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

Living

Our party scattered at yellow dusk and I came home to bed;
I woke at midnight and went for a walk, leaning heavily on a friend.
As I lay on my pillow my vinous complexion, soothed by sleep, grew
sober;
In front of the tower the ocean moon, accompanying the tide, had
risen.
The swallows, about to return to the beams, went back to roost
again;
The candle at my window, just going out, suddenly revived its light.
All the time till dawn came, still my thoughts were muddled;
And in my ears something sounded like the music of flutes and
strings.

MLA

Chü-i, Po. “After Getting Drunk, Becoming Sober in the Night.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/44/.

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Chü-i, Po. “After Getting Drunk, Becoming Sober in the Night.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/44/.

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