王维

送别

下马饮君酒， 问君何所之？

君言不得意， 归卧南山陲。

但去莫复闻， 白云无尽时。

Five-character-quatrain

Wang Wei

AT PARTING

I dismount from my horse and I offer you wine,

And I ask you where you are going and why.

And you answer： "I am discontent

And would rest at the foot of the southern mountain.

So give me leave and ask me no questions.

White clouds pass there without end."