nice Chinese poetry

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SONG OF PURE HAPPINESS I

Her robe is a cloud, her face a flower;
Her balcony, glimmering with the bright spring dew,
Is either the tip of earth's Jade Mountain
Or a moon- edged roof of paradise.

乐府
李白
清平调之一

云想衣裳花想容， 春风拂槛露华浓。
若非群玉山头见， 会向瑶台月下逢。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SONG OF PURE HAPPINESS II

There's a perfume stealing moist from a shaft of red blossom,
And a mist, through the heart, from the magical Hill of Wu- -
The palaces of China have never known such beauty-
Not even Flying Swallow with all her glittering garments.

乐府
李白
清平调之二

一枝红艳露凝香， 云雨巫山枉断肠。
借问汉宫谁得似， 可怜飞燕倚新妆。

Folk-song-styled-verse
Li Bai
A SONG OF PURE HAPPINESS III

Lovely now together, his lady and his flowers
Lighten for ever the Emperor's eye,
As he listens to the sighing of the far spring wind
Where she leans on a railing in the Aloe Pavilion.

乐府
李白
清平调之三

名花倾国两相欢， 常得君王带笑看。
解释春风无限恨， 沈香亭北倚阑干。

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

乐府
杜秋娘
金缕衣

劝君莫惜金缕衣， 劝君惜取少年时。
花开堪折直须折， 莫待无花空折枝。

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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I really enjoy chinese poetry.

Im not familiar with it but I have learned to appreciate the lyrical euphemistic styles tosubstitute phrases that are more beautiful for the more obvious.
I remember when working in Taiwan and the mainland that I was always required to bring silk fibre home for my wifes art work. There was a grade of silk that was , as we call , very fine, which, when translated freom the dialect used in Taipei was 'The happy spiders web" or something like that.