Cataract on Mount Lu
Cataract on Mount Lu
Original Text
300 Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Xu Yuanchong (the Chinese-English Edition with Chinese Phonetic Symbols; Beijing: Peking University Press, 2004): 192-93.
2Like an upended stream the cataract sounds loud.
3Its torrent dashes down three thousand feet from high
Notes
1] Censer peak, or Xianglu Feng: the highest point of Mount Ge. Back to Line
4] Silver River: Chinese name for the Milky Way. Back to Line
RPO poem Editors
Data entry: Sharine Leung
RPO Edition
2012