Nature
Summer Begins
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
What time the bamboo casts a deeper shade,
When birds fill up the afternoon with song,
When catkins vanish, and when pear-blooms fade, —
Then man is weary and the day is long.
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Shu-chen, Chu. “Summer Begins.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chu-shu-chen/0/.
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Shu-chen, Chu. “Summer Begins.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chu-shu-chen/0/.
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