Quiet Night Thoughts: A Dialogue Between Li Bai and Shakepeare Lyrics

床前明月光

疑是地上霜

举头望明月

低头思故乡

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises

Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears and sometimes voices

That if I then had waked after long sleep

Will make me sleep again and then in dreaming

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me that when I waked

I cried to dream again

The bright moonlight falls upon my bed

Mistaking it for frost upon the ground

I raise my head to gaze at the bright moon

lowering my head I think of my hometown

The moon by this time was well up, and there by a fountain

I sat my down and took a drink of the water

And thought I would not go to bed again

But wait the morning sun

举头望明月

低头思故乡

The moon by this time was well up, and there by a fountain

I sat my down and took a drink of the water

Be not afeard the isle is full of noises

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears and sometimes voices

That if I then had waked after long sleep

Will make me sleep again and then in dreaming

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me that when I waked

I cried to dream again

And thought I would not go to bed again

But wait the morning sun