CHINESE POETRY
Poetry of Zhang Ji ( c.766 – c.830 )

Song of the Xiang River
River Songs ~ Song of the Mississippi
Retranslated by Professor Gloom


On the banks,
The Mississippi rolls by,
Picnic met,
At sunset,
Watching as the eagles fly
Sending off,
Seeing off,
Twilight and then falls moonlight,
Floating down,
Carried down,
Cotton fields of boundless white.


*please note in my translation the location is moved*
*this is hopefully not a detraction from the Spirit*
*of the original work*

Gloom 99


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