"好雨知時節，當春乃發生。 隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。"
— Du Fu
January 1, 1970
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Poets from China
Tang dynasty poets
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Original Language: English
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"Spring Night, Delighted by Rain"(《春夜喜雨》), in The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, trans. David Hinton (New Directions Publishing, 1989), p. 61 — Variant translation: — Good rain is coming to our delight. Its early-spring timing is perfectly right. With wind it drifts in all through the night. Silently it's drenching everything in sight. — "Welcome Rain in a Spring Night", as translated by Ying Sun (2008) — 好雨知時節 translated as "The good rain knows its season." in Kim Cheng Boey, Between Stations: Essays
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"Spring Night, Delighted by Rain"(《春夜喜雨》), in The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, trans. David Hinton (New Directions Publishing, 1989), p. 61 — Variant translation: — Good rain is coming to our delight. Its early-spring timing is perfectly right. With wind it drifts in all through the night. Silently it's drenching everything in sight. — "Welcome Rain in a Spring Night", as translated by Ying Sun (2008) — 好雨知時節 translated as "The good rain knows its season." in Kim Cheng Boey, Between Stations: Essays