Love
Passionate Grief
Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets (1921)
Love
Beautiful is this woman who rolls up the pearl-reed blind.
She sits in an inner chamber,
And her eyebrows, delicate as a moth's antennæ,
Are drawn with grief.
One sees only the wet lines of tears.
For whom does she suffer this misery?
We do not know.
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Po, Li. “Passionate Grief.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/121/.
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Po, Li. “Passionate Grief.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/121/.
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