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Poem Sent on Hearing That Wang Ch'ang-ling Had Been Exiled to Lung Piao
Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets (1921)
In Yang Chou, the blossoms are dropping. The night-jar calls.
I hear it said that you are going to Lung Piao--that you will cross the Five Streams.
I fling the grief of my heart up to the bright moon
That it may follow the wind and arrive, straight as eyesight, to the West of Yeh Lang.
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MLA
Po, Li. “Poem Sent on Hearing That Wang Ch'ang-ling Had Been Exiled to Lung Piao.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/128/.
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Po, Li. “Poem Sent on Hearing That Wang Ch'ang-ling Had Been Exiled to Lung Piao.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/128/.
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