自夏口至鸚洲夕望岳陽寄源中丞 劉長卿

自夏口至鸚洲夕望岳陽寄源中丞

汀洲無浪復無煙， 楚客相思益渺然。

漢口夕陽斜渡鳥， 洞庭秋水遠連天。

孤城背嶺寒吹角， 獨戍臨江夜泊船。

賈誼上書憂漢室， 長沙謫去古今憐。

Liu Changqing

AN EVENING VIEW OF THE CITY OF YOUZHOU AFTER

COMING FROM HANKOU TO PARROT ISLAND A POEM SENT

TO MY FRIEND GOVERNOR YUAN

No ripples in the river, no mist on the islands,

Yet the landscape is blurred toward my friend in Chu....

Birds in the slanting sun cross Hankou,

And the autumn sky mingles with Lake Dongting.

...From a bleak mountain wall the cold tone of a bugle

Reminds me, moored by a ruined fort,

That Jia Yi's loyal plea to the House of Han

Banned him to Changsha, to be an exile.