望月懷遠 Gazing at the Moon Thinking of Afar (Tang Dynasty Poem)

famous poem but stealing this translation

Poet: 張九齡 Zhang Jiuling

海上生明月，天涯共此時。

情人怨遙夜，竟夕起相思。

滅燭憐光滿，披衣覺露滋。

不堪盈手贈，還寢夢佳期。

A bright moon rises over the sea, wherever we are, in different far corners, we the same moon share at the same time.

The tender-hearted complain of how night-time stretches on, inevitably giving rise to sentiments of yearning throughout the night.

Seeing as the moonlight is so lovely I put out candlelight, and put on a robe to sustain the chill of a dewy kind.

Regretfully I could not hold on to this so as to offer you the scene, I should turn in, and perhaps dream of a rendezvous I might.

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