Replying to Cheng Jin on His Poem About an Autumn Night
酬程近秋夜即事見贈 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Replying to Cheng Jin on His Poem About an Autumn Night
Long bamboo mat welcomes the breeze early; the empty city is bathed in soft moonlight.
A single goose in the Milky River of autumn; pestles and mortars in a thousand homes through the night.
The season seems surely late; my heart's hope, though lying down, is still delayed.
All along I have been chanting your exquisite lines, unaware that the crows have already begun to cry.
酬程近秋夜即事見贈
長簟迎風早，空城澹月華。
星河秋一雁，砧杵夜千家。
節候看應晚，心期臥亦一作「已」賒。
向來吟秀句，不覺已鳴鴉。