Time & Brevity
Blacktail Row
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Time & Brevity
Grass has run wild now by the Bridge of Red-Birds;
And swallows' wings, at sunset, in Blacktail Row
Where once they visited great homes,
Dip among doorways of the poor.
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MLA
Yü-hsi, Liu. “Blacktail Row.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/liu-yu-hsi/3/.
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Yü-hsi, Liu. “Blacktail Row.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/liu-yu-hsi/3/.
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