Gan jiu sha mao 感舊紗帽

by Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846)

Dynasty: Tang 唐 (618–907)

Notes: A comment presumably by Bai Juyi himself follows the poem's title: 帽,即故李侍郎所贈。 (= The hat was given by the late Vice Director Li.)

Included in: Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.). Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems) Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985. 431.4756.

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昔君烏紗帽,贈我白頭翁。 帽今在頂上,君已歸泉中。 物故猶堪用,人亡不可逢。 岐山今夜月,墳樹正秋風。