Taking Leave of A Friend
Ezra Pound & Li Po * Track #12 On Cathay
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Album Cathay
- #1Preface to Cathay
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- #2Song of the Bowmen of Shu
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- #3The Beautiful Toilet
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- #4The River Song
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- #5
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- #6Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
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- #7The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
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- #8Lament of the Frontier Guard
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- #9Exile’s Letter
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- #10Epigraph to Four Poems of Departure
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- #11Separation on the River Kiang
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- #12Taking Leave of A Friend
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- #13Leave-Taking Near Shoku
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- #14The City Of Choan
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- #15South-Folk In Cold Country
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- #16Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku
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- #17A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
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- #18Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu
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- #19To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
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Taking Leave of A Friend by Ezra Pound (Ft. Li Po)
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Chinese Original
送友人
青山橫北郭，白水繞東城。
此地一為別，孤篷萬裡征。
浮雲游子意，落日故人情。
揮手自茲去，蕭蕭班馬鳴。
A translation of a poem by one of China’s most famous poets – Li Bai or Li Po (李白), from the Tang Dynasty.
When Pound originally wrote these translations, collected in the book Cathay he actually did not know Chinese, but was...
Taking Leave of A Friend Annotated
Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
White river winding about them;
Here we must make separation
And go out through a thousand miles of dead grass.
Mind like a floating wide cloud,
Sunset like the parting of old acquaintances
Who bow over their clasped hands at a distance.
Our horses neigh to each others
as we are departing
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When did Ezra Pound release Taking Leave of A Friend?
Ezra Pound released Taking Leave of A Friend on Fri Jan 01 1915.