Living
Lonely
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Living
The evening sun slants o'er the village street;
My griefs alas! in solitude are borne;
Along the road no wayfarers I meet, —
Naught but the autumn breeze across the corn.
Cite this poem
MLA
Wei, Keng. “Lonely.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/keng-wei/0/.
Chicago
Wei, Keng. “Lonely.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/keng-wei/0/.