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Hearing a Bamboo Flute on a Spring Night in the City of Lo Yang
Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets (1921)
From whose house do the invisible notes of a jade flute come flying?
The Spring wind scatters them. They fill the City of Lo Yang.
To-night, as the phrases form, I hear "The Snapped Willow."
To whom do they not bring back the love of his old, early garden?
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MLA
Po, Li. “Hearing a Bamboo Flute on a Spring Night in the City of Lo Yang.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/86/.
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Po, Li. “Hearing a Bamboo Flute on a Spring Night in the City of Lo Yang.” Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/li-po/86/.
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