PagineAt the Yellow Crane Tower, Taking Leave of Mêng Hao Jan on His Departure to Kuang Ling
by Li Po (Li Bai)
Translated by Florence Ayscough & Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets
I take leave of my dear old friend at the Yellow Crane Tower.
In the flower-smelling mist of the Third Month he will arrive at Yang Chou.
The single sail is shining far off—it is extinguished in the jade-coloured distance,
I see only the long river flowing to the edge of Heaven.
This poem and this translation are in the public domain. Source text: Project Gutenberg.