赠汪伦
李白乘舟将欲行，
忽闻岸上踏歌[1]声。
桃花潭[2]水深千尺[3]，
不及汪伦送我情。
《赠汪伦》是李白赠别诗中传诵最广的一首。据说汪伦写信给李白说：“先生好游乎？此地有十里桃花；先生好酒乎？此地有万家酒店。”李白欣然而来，汪伦却笑着说：“十里桃花是十里外的桃花潭，万家酒店是姓万的人开的酒店。”李白听了大笑。游完桃花潭后，李白正要离去，忽然汪伦同村人手拉着手，脚步踏着拍子来送行了。于是李白又用夸张手法，写下了这首像说话一般自然的好诗。
注释：
[1]踏歌：唐代民间流行的一种手拉手、边走边唱的歌舞形式。
[2]桃花潭：在今安徽省宣城市泾县西南一百里。
[3]深千尺：诗人用深千尺的潭水比喻汪伦与他的友情，运用了夸张的手法。
To Wang Lun Who Comes to Bid Me Farewell
I,Li Bai sit aboard a ship about to go,
When suddenly on shore footsteps and songs o’erflow.
The Lake of Peach Blossom is a thousand fathoms deep,
But not so deep as the friendship Wang Lun and I keep.
“Presented to Wang Lun” is the most widely circulated of Li Bai’s farewell poems. It is said that Wang Lun wrote to Li Bai and said: “Sir, do you like to travel? There are ten miles of peach blossoms here; Sir, do you like wine? There is a Wanjia Hotel here.” Li Bai came happily, but Wang Lun smiled and said: “Ten miles of peach blossoms refer to the Taohuatan ten miles away, and the Wanjia Hotel is a hotel opened by a man named Wan.” Li Bai laughed. After visiting Taohuatan, Li Bai was about to leave, but suddenly Wang Lun’s fellow villagers came to see him off hand in hand, tapping their feet to the beat. So Li Bai used exaggeration again to write this good poem that was as natural as speaking.
