Tang Yun唐韵

No. 04 · Five-character quatrain

独坐敬亭山

Sitting Alone on Mount Jingting

Dú Zuò Jìngtíng Shān

by Li Bai 李白 · 701 – 762

  • Mountains
  • Solitude
众鸟高飞尽All the birds have flown high and disappeared;
孤云独去闲one lonely cloud drifts off, unhurried.
相看两不厌We look at each other and never grow tired —
只有敬亭山only Mount Jingting and I.