History & Politics
Spring Thoughts
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Finch-notes and swallow-notes tell the new year . .
But so far are the Town of the Horse and the Dragon Mound
From this our house, from these walls and Han Gardens,
That the moon takes my heart to the Tartar sky.
I have woven in the frame endless words of my grieving . . .
Yet this petal-bough is smiling now on my lonely sleep.
... . Oh, ask General Tou when his flags will come home
And his triumph be carved on the rock of Yen-jan Mountain!
Cite this poem
MLA
Jan, Huang-fu. “Spring Thoughts.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/huang-fu-jan/0/.
Chicago
Jan, Huang-fu. “Spring Thoughts.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/huang-fu-jan/0/.