送孟浩然之广陵

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Sòng Mèng Hàorán Zhī Guǎng Líng
 送孟浩然之广陵

李白 (Li Bai)   唐朝 Tang Dynasty

Gùrén xī cí huáng hè lóu, yānhuā sān yuè xià yángzhōu.

故人西辞黄鹤楼，烟花三月下扬州。

Gū fān yuǎn yǐng bìkōng jǐn, wéi jiàn chángjiāng tiānjì liú.

孤帆远影碧空尽，唯见长江天际流。

   Seeing off Meng Haoran for Guangling
At the Yellow Crane Tower, my old friend bids farewell to me;In the blooming Spring, he sails downstream to Yangzhou.His lonely sail fades into the blue sky.I can only see the Yangtze river flowing towards the horizon.

★ 李白-Li Bai (701–762 AD) is often considered the greatest Chinese poet of all time.
1. 孟浩然-Meng Haoran (689/691–740 AD) was a major Tang dynasty poet. He was a close friend of Li Bai.
2. 黄鹤楼-Yellow Crane Tower. It is said that an immortal sat on a yellow crane and flew from there to heaven.
3. 送-see off
4. 之-go to
5. 广陵-Guangling (扬州 Yangzhou)
6. 故人-old friend
7. 西-west
8. 辞-take leave
9. 烟花-blooming scenes of spring
10. 三月-March
11. 下-head downstream
12. 孤帆-lonely sail
13. 远影-distant view
14. 碧空-blue sky
15. 尽-disappear
16. 唯-only
17. 见-see
18. 长江-Yangtze river
19. 天际-horizon
20. 流-flow