Reading poetry

Reading poetry

Here in the boat I do nothing but poetry,
I finished a Tang poem, I'm reading some Banshan.
I'm not an old man yet, I'm not eating breakfast.
A quatrain by Banshan is breakfast enough.

—Yang Wanli

Imperial chancellor and poet Wang Anshi, known as Banshan Laoren (The Old Man of the Half Mountain), 1021-86. Idolized by the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli (1127-1206). Image from Wikipedia.

读诗

船中活计只诗篇，
读了唐诗读半山。
不是老夫朝不食
半山绝句当朝餐。