Nature
Spring Sorrows
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
The willow sprays are yellow fringed, the grass is gaily green;
Peach-blooms in wild confusion with the perfumed plum are seen;
The eastern breeze sweeps past me, yet my sorrows never go.
And the lengthening days of spring to me mean lengthening days of woe.
Cite this poem
MLA
Chih, Chia. “Spring Sorrows.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chia-chih/0/.
Chicago
Chih, Chia. “Spring Sorrows.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chia-chih/0/.