Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou

Wang Wei

Translated by David Hinton

Those canyons are too narrow to travel.
How will you make your way there, when

it's a mere bird-path—a thousand miles
and gibbons howling all day and night?

We offer travel-spirits wine, then you're
gone: Nü-lang Shrine, mountain forests

and beyond. But we still share a radiant
moon. And do you hear a nightjar there?

"Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou" by Wang Wei, from The Selected Poems of Wang Wei, translated by David Hinton, copyright © 2006 by David Hinton. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

		Poems About Farewells
		A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
		Before the Deployment by Jehanne Dubrow
		Chicago by Carl Sandburg
		Farewell by John Clare
		Good Night by Wilhelm Müller
		Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye by Gerald Stern
		Losing Track by Denise Levertov
		Remember by Christina Rossetti
		Since Hannah Moved Away by Judith Viorst
		So Long by Walt Whitman
		Verses upon the Burning of our House by Anne Bradstreet
		When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron

Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou

Wang Wei

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