Deeply Ill and Suffering from the Heat,
Presenting my Thoughts to Minister Li Zhifang in waning years suffering through the onset of illness
at the start of summer how is it the air can be so stifling
great waters vast and indistinct join the flaming sea
a strange peak severe and towering rises to red clouds
longing to feel on the hot road cool rain of the season
daring to hope for imperial favor ice from the jade well
it's not that I'm not mindful of the time that was set
in Shanyin in raging snow the impulse hard to follow
In Gongan, Seeing Off Wei Kuangzan since the Duke of Xiaoyao the world's seen great men
seeing you off by linked boat confined to these mats
in commemoration all I can offer are a few characters
as for the poem there's no need to circulate it widely
a time of danger weapons of war in the yellow dust
days shortening amid rivers and lakes old age ahead
from antiquity down to the present all is only tears
it breaks the heart to separate each to wind and smoke
Responding to Magistrate Guo Shou of little talent and growing old still an empty name
ill in bed amid rivers and lakes as spring renews itself
medicine alone concerns me poems all abandoned
flowering branch brilliant sight lines still incomplete
no better than the stone of Yan merely a fallen rock
I've received the Sui pearl awake at night in its glow
past Qiaokou and Juzhou blown by wind and waves
hoisting the sail how sad it is the brevity of passage
For Wei Zanshan
our clans within the capital produced no lack of talent
around Duling and Weiqu before Weiyang Palace
your family rose nearest to the three celestial ranks
everyone agreed we were both five feet from heaven
walking north over mountains open to rain and snow
traveling south amid willows clouded out by smoke
on Dongting in midst of spring I'll grieve over you
catching fish forgetting home adrift on Fan Li's boat