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Poems About Farewells
A Farewell to America
by Phillis Wheatley
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
by John Donne
Chicago
by Carl Sandburg
Good Night
by Wilhelm Müller
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
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Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou  
by 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.
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