Gao Ding

Children return home in haste after school,
Eager to fly kites when there is yet wind.

Gao Ding (高鼎) was a Chinese poet of the Qing dynasty.

Quotes

• 草长莺飞二月天，
  拂堤杨柳醉春烟。
  儿童放学归来早，
  忙趁东风放纸鸢。
  • Orioles fly over tall grasses in second-month weather;
    Willows sweep the riverbank, intoxicated with mist.
    Children return home in haste after school,
    Eager to fly kites when there is yet wind.
  • "Living in a Village" (《村居》), in Four-line poems of the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties (Translated in English), p. 311 (ISBN 978-7560025827)
  • Variant translation:
    • Grass is stretching, birds are dancing in the spring days.
      The willow trees wholeheartedly absorb the sun's rays.
      My after-school schedule today is unusually tight.
      The first business is, of course, in east wind to kite.
      • "Country Life", as translated by Xian Mao in Children's Version of 60 Classical Chinese Poems, p. 60 (ISBN 978-1468559040)