Classic Poetry Series
Li Po
- poems -
Publication Date:
2004
Publisher:
A Mountain Revelry
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet.Li Po
A Vindication
If heaven loved not the wine,A Wine Star would not be in heaven;If earth loved not the wine,The Wine Spring would not be on the earth.Since heaven and earth love the wine,Need a tippling mortal be ashamed?The transparent wine, I hear,Has the soothing virtue of a sage,While the turgid is rich, they say,As the fertile mind of the wise.Both the sage and the wise were drinkers,Why seek for peers among gods and goblins?Three cups open the grand door to bliss;Take a jugful, the universe is yours.Such is the rapture of the wine,That the sober shall never inherit.Li Po
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