寻陆鸿渐不遇

僧皎然

移家虽带郭， 野径入桑麻。

近种篱边菊， 秋来未著花。

扣门无犬吠， 欲去问西家。

报到山中去， 归来每日斜。

NOT FINDING LU HONGXIAN AT HOME

Seng Jiaoran

To find you, moved beyond the city,

A wide path led me, by mulberry and hemp¹,

To a new-set hedge of chrysanthemums² --

Not yet blooming although autumn had come.

...I knocked; no answer, not even a dog.

I waited to ask your western neighbour;

But he told me that daily you climb the mountain,

Never returning until sunset.