Nature
A Mountain Brook
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
One draught for my poetic soul I take,
Unconscious river, ere thou slid'st away
To serve the orgies of the Western Lake,
And be no more the pure stream of today.
Cite this poem
MLA
Hung, Lin. “A Mountain Brook.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lin-hung/0/.
Chicago
Hung, Lin. “A Mountain Brook.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lin-hung/0/.