Love
A Favourite
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Love
Oh the joy of youth spent in a gold-fretted hall,
In the Crape-flower Pavilion, the fairest of all,
My tresses for headdress with gay garlands girt;
Carnations arranged o'er my jacket and skirt!
Then to wander away in the soft-scented air,
And return by the side of his Majesty's chair
But the dance and the song will be o'er by and by,
And we shall dislimn like the rack in the sky.
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Po, Li. “A Favourite.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/33/.
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Po, Li. “A Favourite.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/33/.
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