“Climb the steep Cold Mountain way
Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending
The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high
The streams are wide, the grass is thick
The moss is slippery though there is no rain
The pines sigh though there is no wind
Who can escape the snares of the world
And come to sit with me among the white clouds?”

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry

Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry

Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan

"Written at Mauve Garden: Pine Wind Terrace" (tr. Y. N. Chang and Lewis C. Walmsley), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 477; also in The Luminous Landscape: Chinese Art and Poetry, ed. Richard Lewis (1981), p. 57.

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry

Climbing
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

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