Du Fu: Two Yellow Orioles

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Four-Line Poem: Two Yellow Orioles

绝 句: 二 首
两 个 黄 鹂 鸣 翠 柳
一 行 白 鹭 上 青 天。
窗 含 西 岭 千 秋 雪
门 泊 东 吴 万 里 船。
Jue Ju: Er Shou

Liang ge huang li ming cui liu
Yi hang bai lu shang qing tian.
Chuang han xi ling qian qiu xue
Men bo dong wu wan li chuan.

 

Four-Line Poem: Two Yellow Orioles

Two yellow orioles chirp in the emerald green willow trees
One row of white egrets across the blue skies.
Windows contain western mountain ranges with a thousand autumn snows
Doorway has a thousand eastern Wu boats at anchor.

 

Notes:

Wu:  A nation state (12th century-473 BC) encompassing approximately the modern province of Zhejiang, including the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing.

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