Between Stars And Currents: The Yangtze Night Poem by William He

Between Stars and Currents: The Yangtze Night
By William He

Upon the clear waves' gentle sway,
Moonlight drifts in a roaming way.
To Holy Mountain's peak,
My soul feels no weakness,
Breathing the clouds, their shadows sleek.
Around towering heights,
Lamia takes flight,
Through winding turns,
Their coil and calm unwind.
Ancient songs lie buried deep,
Gates of three gorges guard a steep sleep,
Till starlight shatters treasures rare.
Who knows how to play,
A melody new and fair.
The sky's tune pulls the cloud-sails high.
In vain I stare too long,
The passage of time folds like delicate paper,
A secret is buried far, deep within the depths.

By chance the globefishes glide,
Following tides, the dark design,
Sighing through the endless march of time, relentless and sure.
When will fall, I pray,
Phoenix plumes from heaven's sway.
But, with care, I see,
Leaves freed by frost's decree now.
Yellow cranes move slow,
Jade rails glow with mermaid's flow,
The willows remain, their branches clasping the walls.
Following the sands wash by,
Rosewood glowing with an ethereal aureate haze,
To defy the unpredictable flux of fortunes is our way.
On autumn's face,
Ice-wheel turns in space,
Turtle-shell cool with timeless grace.

多丽 长江夜曲
作者：何威廉

泛清波，
月光浮浪徜徉。
溯昆仑、
真魂未老，
吞吐云影苍茫。
绕重峦、
走蛟沿岸，
蜿蜒处、
盘曲乖张。
古调沉埋，
巫山紧闭，
满川星斗碎琳琅。
问谁识、
奏鸣新曲，
天籁逐云樯。
空延伫，
孤舟欲系，
却在他乡。

乍江豚，
暗随潮汐，
泣尽今古沧桑。
算何时、
坠霄鸾羽，
着意看、
万叶清霜。
黄鹤徘徊，
鲛绡玉槛，
垂杨犹锁旧宫墙。
任淘洗、
紫檀金粉，
兴废笑寻常。
凝秋水，
冰轮转腾，
鳖甲微凉。