Living
Lo-yang
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
A beautiful place is the town of Lo-yang:
The big streets are full of spring light.
The lads go driving out with harps in their hands:
The mulberry girls go out to the fields with their baskets.
Golden whips glint at the horses’ flanks.
Gauze sleeves brush the green boughs.
Racing dawn, the carriages come home,--
And the girls with their high baskets full of fruit.
Cite this poem
MLA
Liang, Ch’ien Wēn-ti of. “Lo-yang.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chien-wen-ti-liang/0/.
Chicago
Liang, Ch’ien Wēn-ti of. “Lo-yang.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chien-wen-ti-liang/0/.
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