Relationships
A Traveller's Song
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
Relationships
The thread in the hands of a fond-hearted mother
Makes clothes for the body of her wayward boy;
Carefully she sews and thoroughly she mends,
Dreading the delays that will keep him late from home.
But how much love has the inch-long grass
For three spring months of the light of the sun?
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MLA
Chiao, Meng. “A Traveller's Song.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meng-chiao/2/.
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Chiao, Meng. “A Traveller's Song.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meng-chiao/2/.
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