Relationships
The Bride
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Relationships
A newly made kettle is bright,
A newly bought pig is a bother,
A new married wife will not eat,
But cries and thinks of her mother.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Bride.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/44/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Bride.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/44/.
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