Love

A Spring Sigh

by Chin Ch’ang-hsü 10th century AD

Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)

Love

Drive the orioles away,
All their music from the trees. . . .
When she dreamed that she went to Liao-hsi Camp
To join him there, they wakened her.

MLA

Ch’ang-hsü, Chin. “A Spring Sigh.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chin-chang-hsu/0/.

Chicago

Ch’ang-hsü, Chin. “A Spring Sigh.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chin-chang-hsu/0/.

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