A farewell to Wei Wan – Li Qi

The travellers' parting-song sounds in the dawn.
Last night a first frost came over the river;
And the crying of the wildgeese grieves my sad heart
Bounded by a gloom of cloudy mountains….
Here in the Gate City, day will flush cold
And washing-flails quicken by the gardens at twilight —
How long shall the capital content you,
Where the months and the years so vainly go by?

送魏万之京

朝闻游子唱骊歌， 昨夜微霜初度河。
鸿雁不堪愁里听， 云山况是客中过。
关城树色催寒近， 御苑砧声向晚多。
莫见长安行乐处， 空令岁月易蹉跎。