Crossing the Han River
Author: Li Pin
This poem is included in: Three Hundred Tang Poems
岭外音书绝
Beyond the mountains, no news or letters arrive.
经冬复历春
Through winter after winter, and spring after spring.
近乡情更怯
Drawing near my homeland, my heart grows more timid.
不敢问来人
I dare not ask a passerby for news.