Nature
Spring Fancies
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
When clouds are thin, and the wind is light, about the noontide hour,
I cross the stream, through willow paths with all around in flower.
The world knows not my inmost thoughts which make me seem a fool;
I'm taken for a truant boy escaped from tedious school.
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Hao, Ch’eng. “Spring Fancies.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cheng-hao/1/.
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Hao, Ch’eng. “Spring Fancies.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cheng-hao/1/.
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