Taking Down a Trellis
Du Fu




Tie stick already wither and fall
Pumpkin leaf become sparse
Lucky fruit white flower finish
Better take leave green vine eliminate
Autumn insect sound not go
Dusk sparrow think what
Cold thing now lie waste
Human life also have beginning
The sticks I tied already wither and fall,
The pumpkin leaves are getting sparse and thin.
It’s lucky that the white flowers fully grew,
You have to let the green vines fade away.
The autumn insects’ calling does not pass,
At dusk, whatever will the sparrows think?
Now, the world is one of cold and waste;
Human life has its beginning too.


Other Chinese poems about Autumn.

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