From
李清照 《
如梦令·
常记溪亭日暮》 (Northern Song, ca. 1100, written as a teenage memory):
常记溪亭日暮，
沉醉不知归路。
兴尽晚回舟，
误入藕花深处。
争渡，
争渡，
惊起一滩鸥鹭 (I still recall the creekside pavilion at dusk, so deep in my cups I forgot the way home. Delight spent, I rowed back late - blundered into the deep of lotus bloom. Row! Row! - and startled a whole shoal of gulls and egrets). One of the most beloved short ci poems, a rare first-person female voice celebrating carefree girlhood.
