Tea poetry by Li Ying

酬友人春暮寄枳花茶
【唐】李郢

Entertaining a friend on a spring evening with a splendid orange blossom tea:

Li Ying.昨日东风吹枳花，酒醒春晚一瓯茶。

Yesterday an eastern wind blew around the orange blossoms,

awakening from a hangover in spring evening to a bowl of tea

如云正护幽人堑，似雪才分野老家。

Like an cloud above the deep moat protecting me,

this frost makes my old home seem a wild place.

金饼拍成和雨露，玉尘煎出照烟霞。

The golden disk has been broken and turns into a rainy dew. The jade dust brewed up gives of

a shining red smoke.

相如病渴今全校，不羡生台白颈鸦。

It seems like today I'm completely sick of thirst,

I don't even envy the crane dipping his neck in the water from the platform.