Tune:"Like A Dream"
--Li Qing-zhao

Last night the wind was strong and rain was fine,
Sound sleep did not dispel the taste of wine.
I ask the maid who's rolling up the screen.
"The same crab-apple tree," she say,"is seen."
"Don't you know,
Don't you know
The red should languish and the green must grow?"

Seven-character-quatrain    COMING HOME
---He Zhizhang

I left home young. I return old;
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"

Folk-song-styled-verse   BEYOND THE BORDER
---Wang Zhihuan

Where a yellow river climbs to the white clouds,
Near the one city-wall among ten-thousand-foot mountains,
A Tartar under the willows is lamenting on his flute
That spring never blows to him through the Jade Pass

Folk-song-styled-verse
Du Qiuniang
THE GOLD-THREADED ROBE

Covet not a gold-threaded robe,
Cherish only your young days!
If a bud open, gather it --
Lest you but wait for an empty bough

-----YuGuangZhong

When I was a child,
Nostalgia seemed a small stamp:
"Here am I
And there ……my mother."

Then I was a grown-up,
Nostalgia became a traveling ticket:
"Here am I
And there……my bride."