gauze, she swipes at the flitting fireflies On the palace steps, the night is cool, like water Laying down, she gazes, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl stars |} Du Mu enjoyed traveling in the misty mountains of southeast China, especially Xuanzhou, and remembering the fallen Southern dynasties, as exemplified by his poem "Written on the Kaiyuan Temple at Xuanzhou" ( ): Prose He wrote a commentary on The Art of War and many letters of advice to high officials. A twenty-book collection of his prose works, Fan Chuan Wen Ji (), survives. Modern references In 1968, Roger Waters of the rock band Pink Floyd borrowed lines from his poetry including "Lotuses lean on each other in yearning" () to create the lyrics for the song Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun from the band's second album A Saucerful of Secrets. See also Chinese poetry Qijue References Works cited Further reading Burton, Richard F. Plantains in the Rain: Selected Chinese Poems of Du Mu. Wellsweep 1990. . This is a bilingual text. The Chinese is in traditional characters. Francis, Mark. Running Under the Ice: Fifty Selected Poems by Du Mu. Oxcidental Press 2012. . This is a bilingual text. The Chinese is in simplified characters. Young David and Jiann Lin. Out on the Autumn River: Selected Poems of Du Mu. Rager Media, 2007. . This is a bilingual text. The Chinese is in traditional characters. External links Included in 300 Selected Tang poems, translated by Witter Bynner Du Mu's poems (in Simplified Chinese) Books of the Quan Tangshi that include collected poems of Du Mu at the Chinese Text Project: Book 520, Book 521, Book 522, Book 523, Book 524, Book 525, Book 526, Book 527 803 births 852 deaths 9th-century Chinese calligraphers 9th-century Chinese poets Du clan of Jingzhao Poets from Shaanxi Politicians from Xi'an Tang dynasty calligraphers Tang dynasty politicians from Shaanxi Three Hundred Tang Poems poets Writers from Xi'an