Living
A Night at the Tavern
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Living
Solitary at the tavern,
I am shut in with loneliness and grief.
Under the cold lamp, I brood on the past;
I am kept awake by a lost wildgoose.
. . . Roused at dawn from a misty dream,
I read, a year late, news from home —
And I remember the moon like smoke on the river
And a fisher-boat moored there, under my door.
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Mu, Tu. “A Night at the Tavern.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-mu/12/.
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Mu, Tu. “A Night at the Tavern.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-mu/12/.
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