Li Bai (also known as Li Bo or Li Taibai), of the High Tang period, ranks alongside Du Fu as one of the two leading figures of Chinese poetry. He was a Byronic figure, whose life as well as his verse embodied the Romantic cliches of freedom, spontaneity and defiance of convention.

Click on the title of each poem for the text in Chinese characters, pinyin and literal translation. Falling blossoms have filled the folds of my clothes. Birds are far off, people too are few. Heaven and earth spreading out so far. The wind blows with the great desert's cold. All the ten thousand things billow. Floating clouds seem to have no end.

Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, 701–762), also known as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (Chinese: 太白), art name Qinglian Jushi (Chinese: 青蓮居士), was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights.

We are not so different you and I. Nor is Li Bai much different from today’s poets and song writers who describe life as a long, hard journey. Take for example He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother by the Hollies, or The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles, or a Bob Dylan song, or…

Li Bai, a genius of Chinese poetry, revolutionized the genre with his works. Discover his timeless legacy through over 1,000 celebrated poems.

19 poems by Cao Cao, Cui Hao and others, plus anonymous Yue Fu folk songs. Chinese poems by Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Li Shangyin, Li Yu, Su Shi, Tao Qian and others in characters, pinyin, gloss and English translation.

Jan 26, 2007 · The Tang poet Li Bai–a.k.a. Li Po, Li Bo and the Poet Immortal–left us over 1,000 poems. Besides these, he is also known by the way it is said he died. He supposedly drowned drunk, trying to embrace the moon’s reflection in the Yangtze River.

A collection of the all-time best famous Li Bai poems by history's most popular famous poets. Read and share poems from this select list of the best famous Li Bai poetry by famous classical and contemporary poets.

"Three Poems after Drunkenness While Accompanying Uncle Shilang on a Tour of Dongting Lake" is a collection of poems by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty....

This page contains English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Li Bai, T'ao Ch'ien, Po Chu-I, Du Fu, Li Ching-jau, Guan Daosheng, Huang O, Sui Hui, Du Mu, Li Qingzhao Xu Zhimo and the Duke of Zhou.