Living

Blind Man's Buff

by Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes traditional (collected in Peking, 1890s)

Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)

Living

A peacock feather
On a plum-tree limb,
You catch me,
And I'll catch him.

MLA

Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Blind Man's Buff.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/138/.

Chicago

Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Blind Man's Buff.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/138/.

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