Love
To an Absent Fair One
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Love
After parting, dreams possessed me and I wandered you know where,
And we sat in the verandah and you sang. the sweet old air.
Then I woke, with no one near me save the moon still shining on,
And lighting up dead petals which like you have passed and gone.
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Pi, Chang. “To an Absent Fair One.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chang-pi/0/.
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Pi, Chang. “To an Absent Fair One.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chang-pi/0/.
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