A Nighttime Gaze

Bai Juyi (772-846)
 
 
The river wraps around the town’s cold edge,
Its sandbanks still with sitting birds of dusk—
Alone on top this building perched up high,
I gaze southwest, where mountains drop to dust.
 
 

Chinese   晚望 白居易   江城寒角動 沙洲夕鳥還 獨在高亭上 西南望遠山

Pronunciation   Wǎn Wàng Bái Jūyì