王维

　　青溪

　　言入黄花川， 每逐青溪水；

　　随山将万转， 趣途无百里。

　　声喧乱石中， 色静深松里；

　　漾漾泛菱荇， 澄澄映葭苇。

　　我心素已闲， 清川澹如此。

　　请留盘石上， 垂钓将已矣！

　　Five-character-quatrain

　　Wang Wei

　　A GREEN STREAM

　　I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,

　　Borne by the channel of a green stream,

　　Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains

　　On a journey of less than thirty miles……

　　Rapids hum over heaped rocks；

　　But where light grows dim in the thick pines,

　　The surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns

　　And weeds are lush along the banks.

　　……Down in my heart I have always been as pure

　　As this limpid¹ water is……

　　Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock

　　And to cast a fishing-line forever！