A Spring Morning

    This spring morning in bed I'm (lie),

    Not to a wake till the birds are crying.

    After one night of wind and showers,

    many are the fallen flowers!

     (Translated by Xu Yuanchong)

    This poem was writtenMeng Haoran (689~740), who (live) during the Tang Dynasty.

    It might be one of the most famous (poem) about spring in China. People like (read) it when they wake up on a spring morning.

    Meng didn't directly say how much he loved spring. Instead, he wrote about the details (细节) ofseason: the bids, wind, rain showers and (fall) flowers. His descriptions (描述) of these things showed (we) the joy he felt during springtime.

    Meng chose to write about the sounds of spring. These sounds allow readers (picture) spring using their own imagination.

I am not your study, but your health.

    Walt Whitman was a famous American poet (诗人). He was born1May 31, 1819, in Long Island. There were nine2in his family, and he was the second.3he was four years old, his family moved to Brooklyn because his family was too poor. His childhood was restless (不安宁的) and unhappy.4the age of 11, he left school. Then he began to5a job to help his family. As a young man, Whitman6a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was7years old when he published his first book of poetry (诗集) in 1855. He8it Leaves of Grass. It9only twelve poems. The new form of his poetry10many people. Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in 1892.

—I'm_________ waking the baby.