Arts & Sciences
The Poet
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Arts & Sciences
You ask what my soul does away in the sky,
I inwardly smile but I cannot reply;
Like the peach-blossom carried away by the stream,
I soar to a world of which you cannot dream.
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Po, Li. “The Poet.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/31/.
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Po, Li. “The Poet.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/31/.
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