Li He

Li He (c. 790–791 – c. 816–817) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty.

Quotes
何当金络脑，快走踏清秋. The crescent moon hangs like a bow. When would the steed in golden gear Gallop all night through autumn clear?
 * 大漠沙如雪，燕山月似钩.
 * The desert sands look white as snow;
 * "Twenty-three Horse Poems", 5 (《马诗二十三首（其五）》), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Xu Yuanchong (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 91

"Ballad of the Grand Warden of Goose Gate" (《雁門太守行》)

 * In The Poems of Li Ho, trans. J. D. Frodsham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970)

Till it seems the city must yield. Our chain-mail glitters under the moon, Metal scales agape.
 * 黑雲壓城城欲摧，甲光向日金鱗開.
 * Black clouds whelm on the city,
 * Opening lines

At Yellow Gold Tower, Clutching our Dragons of Jade We die for our lord.
 * 報君黃金臺上意，提攜玉龍為君死.
 * We require the king for his favours to us
 * Closing lines