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Quiet Night Thoughts

Li Bai

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 730 CE
Originally in
Originally in Classical Chinese
Pages
Pages 1

A traveller wakes in the night, mistakes the moonlight by his bed for frost, looks up at the moon and lowers his head thinking of home.

Before my bed the moonlight lies so bright, I take it for the frost that falls at night.
Quiet Night Thoughts, Li Bai

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