【饮酒】 On Drinking Wine

结庐在人境，而无车马喧。

问君何能尔？心远地自偏。

采菊东篱下，悠然见南山。

山气日夕佳，飞鸟相与还。

此中有真意，欲辨已忘言。

I have built my cottage amongest the throng of men, And yet there is no noise of horse and of carrige. You ask me, how can it be? and I reply:

When my heart is absent the place itself is absent; For I pick chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge, And far away to the south I can see the mountains, And the mountains mists are lovely at morning and evening, While birds keep flying across and back again. In all these things there lies a profound meaning. I was going to explain...but now I forget what it was.

【鹿柴】

The Deer Enclosure

空山不见人， 但闻人语响。

返景如深林， 复照青苔上。

Empty the hills, no man in sight, Yet voices echo here;

Deep in the woods slanting sunlight Falls on the jade-green moss.