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Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: "Peaceful Brightness" (I)

by Li Po 701–762

Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets (1921)

Love

The many-coloured clouds make me think of her upper garments, of her lower garments;
Flowers make me think of her face.
The Spring wind brushes the blossoms against the balustrade,
In the heavy dew they are bright and tinted diversely.
If it were not on the Heaped Jade Mountain that I saw her,
I must have met her at the Green Jasper Terrace, or encountered her by accident in the moon.

MLA

Po, Li. “Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: "Peaceful Brightness" (I).” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/50/.

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Po, Li. “Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: "Peaceful Brightness" (I).” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/50/.

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