Living
Insouciance
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Living
I wander north, I wander south,
I rest me where I please
See how the river-banks are nipped beneath the autumn breeze!
Yet what care I if autumn blasts the river-banks lay bare?
The loss of hue to river-banks is the river-banks' affair.
Cite this poem
MLA
Hao, Ch’eng. “Insouciance.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cheng-hao/0/.
Chicago
Hao, Ch’eng. “Insouciance.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cheng-hao/0/.
Read this poem with the Codex →